Garden Route Surf

Garden Route Surf Forecast

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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Please enable JavaScript to access the following map views:All map types that you can enable here: Garden Route Colour Base Map, Wave Height, Wave Energy, Garden Route Swell 1 Energy, Swell 2 Energy, Windwave Energy, Garden Route Precipitation, Wind, Temperature, Garden Route Cloud Cover.Map overlays available for display: Garden Route Pressure, Wind.Symbols shown on the map: Garden Route Surf Breaks, Tide Forecasts, Cities, Garden Route Ski Resorts, Live Wave Buoys, Live Webcams, Garden Route Wind Now, Temperature Now, Weather Now, Garden Route Swell at breaks, Rating at breaks.

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

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Thu	Friday 29			Saturday 30			Sunday 31			Monday 01			Tuesday 02			Wednesday 03			Thursday 04
	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	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route
Rating	6	5	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	0	0	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	1.9 SW	2.0 SW	1.7 SW	1.4 SSW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.4 SW	1.6 SW	2.1 SW	2.5 SW	2.2 SW	2.1 S	2.2 SSE	1.4 SW	2.0 SE	2.1 SE	1.9 SE
Period(s)	15	14	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	12	11	11	10	13	8	12	8	8	8
Energy	5476	3715	2549	1392	1340	887	568	1034	839	658	654	710	747	1125	2477	1079	1618	1259	1079	1076	724	586
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	glass	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	on	on	on
High Tide / height (m)	2:16AM 1.58		2:43PM 1.51	2:51AM 1.85		3:16PM 1.52	3:22AM 1.85		3:48PM 1.54	3:55AM 1.61		4:21PM 1.54	4:22AM 1.80		4:54PM 1.72	5:00AM 1.54		5:28PM 1.52		5:27AM 1.69	6:05PM 1.66
Low Tide / height (m)	8:06PM 0.41	8:37AM 0.28		8:31PM 0.49	9:08AM 0.24		9:03PM 0.48	9:38AM 0.23		9:47PM 0.33	10:10AM 0.23		10:07PM 0.50	10:31AM 0.35		10:54PM 0.37	11:14AM 0.29		11:28PM 0.43	11:38AM 0.44		11:56PM 0.64
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	5	7	2	4	3	5	3	7
High °C	16	17	18	17	19	19	16	20	22	19	23	23	18	16	15	14	14	14	14	15	15	15
Low °C	15	15	17	16	16	17	15	16	19	19	19	19	17	15	14	14	13	13	13	13	15	14
Chill °C (?)	16	17	18	17	19	19	16	20	22	19	23	23	18	15	15	14	13	12	12	13	13	12
Sunrise	-	7:22	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:24	-	-	7:24	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:28	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:28	-	-	5:27	-	-	5:27	-	-	5:25	-	-	5:29	-	-	5:27	-	-	5:29	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	1.9 SW	2.0 SW	1.7 SW	1.4 SSW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.3 SW	1.3 SW	1.4 SW	1.6 SW	2.1 SW	2.0 SW	2.2 SW	2.1 S	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	1.1 SW	1.0 SSW	1.9 SE
Period (s)	15	14	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	11	11	12	11	11	10	13	12	12	11	11	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	1.5 SSE	1.3 SE	0.9 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.5 E	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 E	0.4 E	0.3 E	0.6 SSW	0.5 WSW	0.4 WSW	0.1 W	1.2 SW	-	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	-	7	7	6	6	5	6	7	6	7	14	13	8	8	8	12	10	11	11	11	-	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 WSW	-	2.5 SW	-	0.2 E	2.2 SSE	2.1 SE	2.0 SE	2.1 SE	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	11	-	9	8	8	8	8	-

	Thursday 28			Friday 29								Saturday 30								Sunday 31
	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	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Outer Pool Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Robberg Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Fish Boma Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Brak River Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route
Rating	7	7	5	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SSW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.0 SSW	1.9 SW	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	2.0 SW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.4 SW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.8 SW
Period(s)	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	13
Energy	6265	6346	4796	5476	5233	4783	3715	3257	2549	2415	1622	1392	1198	1147	1340	1117	887	621	516	568	727	1028
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass
Tide State	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)	2:09PM 1.42				2:16AM 1.55				2:43PM 1.51				2:51AM 1.85				3:16PM 1.52				3:22AM 1.85
Low Tide / height (m)							8:37AM 0.28				8:31PM 0.49				9:08AM 0.24				9:03PM 0.48
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	17	16	16	16	15	15	17	18	17	16	17	17	17	17	19	19	17	15	16	16	16	16
Chill °C (?)	17	16	15	15	15	15	17	18	17	15	17	17	17	17	19	19	17	15	16	16	16	16
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:24
Sunset	5:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:27	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SSW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.5 SW	2.0 SSW	1.9 SW	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	2.0 SW	1.8 SW	1.7 SW	1.4 SW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.8 SW
Period (s)	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	12	12	12	12	12	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	1.7 SSE	1.5 SSE	1.5 SE	1.3 SE	1.0 SE	1.0 SE	0.9 ESE	1.0 ESE	0.9 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.5 E	0.5 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE	0.5 ESE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	7	7	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	6	6	6	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.6 SE	-	-	1.1 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 28	Friday 29
	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	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Outer Pool Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Robberg Garden Route	Robberg Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Garden Route
Rating	7	7	5	6	6	5	5	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	4
Wave Height (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SSW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW
Period(s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14
Energy	6051	6051	6265	6265	6346	6346	6265	6265	4796	6027	5624	5476	5210	5140	5233	5020	5008	4783	4354	3900	3715	3537
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)	2:09PM 1.42												2:16AM 1.58
Low Tide / height (m)							8:06PM 0.41												8:37AM 0.28
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	18	18	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	16	16	17	18
Chill °C (?)	18	18	17	17	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	15	14	15	15	16	16	17	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SSW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW
Period (s)	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.7 SSE	1.7 SSE	1.7 SSE	1.5 SSE	1.5 SSE	1.5 SSE
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	7	7	7	7	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-