Garden Route Surf

Detailed Garden Route surf forecast maps and the latest eyeball surf report from local surfers in the region. Near-shore swell is shown on the map together with the surf forecast rating for spots in Garden Route. Find the best places to surf in offshore conditions by selecting the wind option on the forecast map. Windsurfers and kite surfers can also use this option to find more favorable cross-shore conditions in Garden Route. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in Garden Route over the next 7 days. Surf photos from Garden Route and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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Garden Route Surf Forecast map for predicting the best wave and wind conditions across the region. For surfers, the map shows the most powerful swell tracking across near-shore open water and not the peak waves experienced by boats out at sea. Move your mouse over the ocean swell symbols or the surf breaks on the coastline to see a more detailed surf forecast including wave period and wind conditions. The forecast updates every 6 hours and most live weather reports update every hour. You can animate the Garden Route Surf map or show live wind and wave conditions as reported from wavebuoys and local weather stations. Surf breaks shown along the Garden Route coastline are also listed below.

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Garden Route Wavefinder

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	Thu	Friday 13			Saturday 14			Sunday 15			Monday 16			Tuesday 17			Wednesday 18			Thursday 19
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Garden Route	Keurbooms Garden Route	The Wreck Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	The Wreck Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route
Rating	4	3	0	6	5	5	4	0	4	3	0	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 SSW	2.4 SW	2.4 SW	3.5 SSW	4.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.1 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.1 SSW	3.0 ESE	3.0 E	2.2 ESE	1.7 SSW	1.8 SW	1.9 SW	1.7 SW	1.8 SW	1.6 SW	1.5 SW	1.7 SW
Period(s) (?)	13	12	13	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	8	9	10	15	14	14	13	13	13	12	12
Energy(?)	2570	1885	3863	4859	5566	4399	3464	1858	1334	1063	708	1522	3479	1857	1839	1737	1860	1287	1218	992	1034	999
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	on	cross	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	off	on	off	cross- off	on	on	glass	cross- off	on	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on
High Tide / height (m)	1:51AM 1.42	1:49PM 1.54		2:27AM 1.37		2:30PM 1.46	2:56AM 1.47		3:01PM 1.55	3:21AM 1.89		3:29PM 1.69	3:48AM 2.02		3:58PM 1.77	4:18AM 1.88		4:27PM 1.84	4:47AM 1.93		4:58PM 1.75
Low Tide / height (m)		7:40AM 0.88		8:19PM 0.48	8:29AM 0.50		8:47PM 0.32	8:52AM 0.58		9:06PM 0.39	9:28AM 0.23		9:34PM 0.29	9:51AM 0.32		10:06PM -0.00	10:26AM 0.06		10:34PM -0.04	10:57AM 0.02		11:02PM -0.03
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	2	-	4	8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	19	21	20	20	18	19	17	20	23	19	26	29	24	28	26	23	27	28	23	24	24	22
Low °C	19	20	19	17	17	18	16	17	22	18	21	27	23	26	25	22	24	27	22	22	23	19
Chill °C (?)	19	21	20	20	18	19	17	20	23	18	26	29	24	28	26	23	27	28	23	24	24	22
Sunrise	-	5:58	-	-	6:01	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:19	-	-	7:17	-	-	7:16	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 SSW	2.4 SW	2.1 SW	0.5 SSE	4.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.1 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.7 ESE	1.1 SSW	2.5 ESE	2.2 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.8 SW	1.9 SW	1.7 SW	1.8 SW	1.6 SW	1.5 SW	1.7 SW
Period (s)	13	12	12	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	8	12	9	10	10	14	14	13	13	13	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 E	0.4 SSE	1.3 SSW	0.2 E	0.5 SSE	0.4 SE	0.4 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.5 S	1.1 SSW	0.4 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.5 E	1.5 E	1.3 E	1.1 E	1.0 E	1.0 E	0.8 E
Period (s)	9	14	15	8	13	13	13	12	12	8	12	20	11	16	15	9	9	9	9	9	8	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	2.4 SW	3.5 SSW	-	-	-	-	1.9 ESE	2.1 ESE	-	3.0 ESE	3.0 E	-	-	-	-	0.5 WSW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	13	14	-	-	-	-	6	7	-	8	9	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 12			Friday 13								Saturday 14								Sunday 15
	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Keurbooms Garden Route	Ding Dangs Garden Route	The Wreck Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Santos Reef Garden Route	Ding Dangs Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Robberg Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route
Rating	0	0	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	0	0	6	4	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.4 SW	1.5 SSW	2.4 SW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	4.0 SSW	3.0 S	4.0 SSW	4.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	10	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	15	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Energy(?)	1542	2046	2334	2308	2332	2010	1885	1024	1938	2965	3022	4859	10788	3672	5599	5130	4369	3960	3753	3464	3277	2656
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	off	on	on	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				1:54AM 1.21				1:49PM 1.54					2:26AM 1.58				2:30PM 1.49				2:56AM 1.47
Low Tide / height (m)		7:27PM 0.82				7:54AM 0.65					8:20PM 0.47				8:29AM 0.50				8:47PM 0.32
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	1	1	1	-	-	-	-	3	2	1	2	3	2	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	19	19	19	19	20	20	21	19	19	19	18	18	17	17	18	19	18	18	17	16	16	17
Chill °C (?)	19	19	19	19	20	20	21	19	19	18	17	17	16	16	18	19	18	18	17	16	16	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:03	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01
Sunset	7:27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.4 SW	1.5 SSW	2.4 SW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	0.5 SSE	3.5 SSW	3.0 S	4.0 SSW	4.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW
Period (s)	10	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	15	14	13	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.7 S	0.5 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.2 E	0.4 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE
Period (s)	15	11	10	14	14	14	14	16	13	13	14	8	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.3 E	1.1 ESE	1.0 E	0.8 E	0.6 E	0.4 E	-	-	0.6 SSW	1.2 WSW	1.9 SW	3.5 SSW	4.0 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	8	5	5	5	4	5	-	-	3	5	6	14	14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 12									Friday 13
	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Keurbooms Garden Route	Ding Dangs Garden Route	The Wreck Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Santos Reef Garden Route	Ding Dangs Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Robberg Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route
Rating	0	0	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	0	0	6	4	6	6	5	5	5	5	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	1.9 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.3 SSW	1.8 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SW	2.3 SW
Period(s) (?)	10	10	10	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12
Energy(?)	1482	1504	1833	1833	2918	2894	2679	1351	2826	2086	2539	2539	1782	1114	2346	2166	2032	1896	1851	1814	1885	1653
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	on	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	on	on	glass	glass	cross	cross- on	on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)												1:55AM 1.18
Low Tide / height (m)						7:46PM 0.62												7:54AM 0.66
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	20	21	21	21	21
Chill °C (?)	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	19	20	20	20	21	21	21	21
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:01	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	7:23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	1.9 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.3 SSW	1.8 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SSW	2.4 SW	2.3 SW
Period (s)	10	10	10	10	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.3 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE
Period (s)	15	15	14	14	10	10	10	11	13	11	14	14	14	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.4 E	0.4 E	0.4 E	0.4 E	0.3 E	0.3 E	0.3 E	1.0 ESE	-	0.9 E	-	-	0.8 E	0.8 ESE	0.6 E	0.6 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	0.4 E	-	-	-
Period (s)	7	7	8	8	8	8	9	5	-	5	-	-	5	5	4	4	4	4	5	-	-	-