Surf-Forecast | Yellow Buoys Surf Guide

Lat Long: 38.21° S 145.04° E

Issued: 3 am 06 Aug 2026 (local time)

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Today's Yellow Buoys sea temperature is

11.7° C

Yellow Buoys surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Yellow Buoys Surf Guide

Yellow Buoys in Mornington Peninsula is a very sheltered sandbar break. Winter is the optimum time of year for surfing here. Ideal winds are from the northwest. Groundswells more frequent than windswells and the ideal swell direction is from the northwest. Surfable at all stages of the tide. Crowds are never a problem here. Take care of - Rips / undertow - Man-made danger (buoys etc.) - Pollution.

Yellow Buoys Spot Info

Type:	Rating:	Reliability:	Todays Sea Temp*:
Sandbar	1	rarely breaks	11.7°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite

Surfing Yellow Buoys:

The best conditions reported for surf at Yellow Buoys occur when a Northwest swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the Northwest.

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Explore Yellow Buoys Location Map

Interactive Yellow Buoys surf break location map. View information about nearby surf breaks, their wave consistency and rating compared to other spots in the region. Current swell conditions from local buoys are shown along with live wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. Click icons on the map for more detail. The closest passenger airport to Yellow Buoys is Melbourne Moorabbin Airport (MBW) in Australia, 27 km (17 miles) away (directly). The second nearest airport to Yellow Buoys is Avalon Airport (AVV), also in Australia, 54 km (34 miles) away.

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Please note that some surf spot locations are approximate to protect their exact location while others are not shown at close zoom level.

Yellow Buoys Surf Forecasts:

Hourly Forecast

16 Day Forecast

Todays Surf Summary
Thursday, 6 August 2026, 07:27 Local Time

m, °C	Thursday 06
ft, °F	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM
Wave (m)
Period (s)	-	-	-	-
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	off	off

Tides at Yellow Buoys

Current tide and informaton

For Mornington Mills Mothers Beach, 0 km from Yellow Buoys.

Next High Water: 06:07pm | 2.41m

Next Low Water: 12:09pm | 0.73m

NEXT	IS AT (local time)	remaining
high tide
low tide

Yellow Buoys Sea Temperature

The water temperature (11.7 °C) at Yellow Buoys is quite cold. If the sun shines as forecast, it should feel warm enough to get away with a good sealed spring wetsuit but you won't overheat in a winter wetsuit, gloves boots and a hood. Effective windchill factor of (12.0 °C).

Today, many surfers would wear a spring wetsuit, a neoprene hood, gloves and boots.