Zavial Surf Forecast

/ Algarve (42 surf breaks) /

Portugal (226 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (37.05° N 8.87° W)

Surf Forecasts:

Zavial surfForecast / Algarve / Portugal

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 am Thursday 16 Oct 2025 WEST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

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

Today's Zavial sea temperature is 18.4° C
(Which is 2.1°C colder than average for this time of year)

How big are the waves at Zavial today?

The current surf forecast for Zavial at 4AM is: 0.6m 14s primary swell from a West direction and 0.8m 10s secondary swell from a West-northwest direction (forecast issued at 12:00am October 16). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-offshore and the swell rating is 2.

Time (WEST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (16 Oct)	3ft (0.9m)	14s
Afternoon (16 Oct)	3.5ft (1.1m)	13s
Evening (16 Oct)	3.5ft (1.0m)	12s

Table - waves today at Zavial. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

		Thursday 16								Friday 17								Saturday 18
	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM
Rating (10 max)	1	2	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	WNW	WNW	W	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	ESE	ESE	SE	WNW	WNW	WNW	WNW	ESE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
Period(s) (?)	11	11	14	14	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	7	7	7	11	11	11	11	7	7	7	7	7	7
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	180	176	134	213	331	461	384	344	308	254	199	144	180	107	105	91	91	90	76	103	135	153	114	89
Wind (km/h)	NNE	N	NNE	ENE	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	ENE	ENE	ENE	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ENE	ENE	E	E	E	ESE	ESE	ESE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	on
High Tide / height (m)		11:31PM 2.13				11:48AM 2.42				12:28AM 2.29				12:40PM 2.56					1:11AM 2.45				1:21PM 2.68
Low Tide / height (m)				5:36AM 0.87				6:21PM 0.59				6:31AM 0.71					7:04PM 0.45				7:13AM 0.55

		Thursday 16								Friday 17								Saturday 18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:45	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:58	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:54	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	21	21	21	20	20	21	21	21	20	20	20	19	20	21	21	21	21	20	20	19	20	21	21	21
Feels °C (?)	22	21	21	20	19	20	21	21	20	20	20	18	19	19	20	21	21	20	18	18	19	19	19	21

Map Icons:
Break
Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Algarve

Wind Update The wind is still offshore at Zavial (moderate winds from the NNW at Sagres (8533 -0) 8 km from Zavial). 0.8m 11s groundswell from the WNW with a 0.6m 5s windswell from the ESE and a 0.5m 13s groundswell from the W. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 52 minutes ago Zavial

Expand

View all

2 h 52 min ago

25 km/h

NNW

Offshore

Please reload the page to see if there are any updates.

FREE! Surf-Forecast.com widget for your website

The surf report / weather widget below is available to embed on third party websites free of charge and provides a summary of our Zavial surf forecast. Simply grab the html code snippet that we provide and paste it into your own site. You can choose your preferred language and metric/imperial units for the surf forecast feed to suit users of your site. Click here to get the code.