British-Columbia Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

British-Columbia wave (swell) map for surfers, windsurfers and sailors showing open ocean wave size, wave period and wave energy. You can customize the wave and wind maps with overlays for wind arrows, pressure and general weather for surfing. There are also options to display live wind observations from ships, wave buoys and weather stations on the wave maps in the British-Columbia region.

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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Monday 25			Tuesday 26			Wednesday 27			Thursday 28			Friday 29			Saturday 30			Sunday 31			Mon
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in British-Columbia	China Beach Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Long Beach (Tofino Airport) Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Jordan River Vancouver Island	Jordan River Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island
Rating	3	8	7	0	3	4	4	0	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	2	2	3	1	1	3	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	2.2 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	-	2.0 W	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	-	1.8 W	1.7 W	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 W	1.2 W	1.3 W	1.0 W	0.9 W	0.7 SW	-
Period(s)	11	15	14	-	12	9	8	-	18	16	-	-	-	-	-	11	10	11	11	10	21	-
Energy	1225	7189	6605	0	1169	2895	1800	0	3689	1732	0	0	0	0	0	461	319	525	262	221	656	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	cross	off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	8:58AM 1.86		9:26PM 3.03			10:19PM 3.18	11:21AM 2.71	5:21PM 3.94	10:58PM 3.24	12:41PM 1.84	6:12PM 4.20	3:59AM 4.13		6:57PM 4.38	4:25AM 4.08		2:04PM 3.94	12:42AM 3.32			1:15AM 3.31	5:21AM 4.01
Low Tide / height (m)		3:08PM 1.11	4:03AM 1.00	9:52AM 1.53	3:38PM 1.16		5:06AM 0.80			6:11AM 0.56		11:21PM 3.28	11:38AM 0.85		12:08AM 3.39	7:50AM 0.85	7:34PM 2.25		8:54AM 0.58			1:14PM 0.65
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	3	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	11	11	11	14	14	12	12	18	14	18	20	18	13	12	11	8	9	10	13	14	12	18
Low °C	11	11	10	12	14	12	12	17	13	16	18	13	13	12	10	7	8	8	10	14	11	15
Chill °C (?)	9	8	9	14	14	11	12	18	14	18	20	18	11	10	9	8	7	8	13	14	11	18
Sunrise	5:24	-	-	5:16	-	-	5:26	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:13	-	-	5:28	-	-	5:18	-	-	5:11
Sunset	-	9:10	-	-	9:02	-	-	9:04	-	-	9:05	-	-	9:06	-	-	10:10	-	-	9:07	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.2 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	-	2.0 W	2.5 W	2.0 W	-	2.2 WNW	1.7 W	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 W	1.2 W	1.3 W	1.0 W	0.9 W	0.9 W	-
Period (s)	11	15	14	-	12	9	8	-	8	16	-	-	-	-	-	11	10	11	11	10	9	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 SW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	-	0.3 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	-	1.8 W	1.3 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 SSW	0.3 NNE	0.4 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.2 SSW	0.7 SW	-
Period (s)	16	18	15	-	16	16	15	-	18	9	-	-	-	-	-	13	5	14	14	14	21	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	-	2.5 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	9	8	-	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-

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	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM
Best forecast wave conditions in British-Columbia	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Long Beach (Tofino Airport) Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	South Chesterman Beach Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Ambleside Park Vancouver Island
Rating	2	2	4	3	4	8	7	8	7	5	5	0	4	3	0	5	4	4	4	4	2	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.4 SW	1.6 SW	2.5 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 W	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.5 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.0 W	-	2.2 W	2.0 W	-	3.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.5 WNW	1.5 W	-
Period(s)	10	10	11	11	12	15	14	14	14	14	13	-	13	12	-	10	9	9	9	8	9	-
Energy	444	535	1897	1225	1438	7189	6953	7814	6605	5407	3506	0	1603	1169	0	3137	2895	2308	1809	1800	500	0
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- on
Tide State	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)				8:58AM 1.86				9:36PM 3.10								10:19PM 3.18					11:39AM 1.79
Low Tide / height (m)		3:57AM 2.12				3:08PM 1.11				4:14AM 0.98		9:52AM 1.53		3:38PM 1.16					5:06AM 0.80
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	4	1	15	2	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	9	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	10	10	11	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	12	12	17	18
Chill °C (?)	6	7	9	11	11	9	9	10	9	9	11	14	14	14	14	12	12	12	12	12	17	18
Sunrise	-	-	5:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:26	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:02	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 SW	1.6 SW	2.5 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.3 W	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.5 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	3.0 W	-	2.2 W	2.0 W	-	2.5 W	2.5 W	2.2 W	2.0 W	2.0 W	1.5 W	-
Period (s)	10	10	11	11	12	15	14	14	14	14	13	-	13	12	-	10	9	9	9	8	9	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 W	0.5 W	0.6 SW	0.3 SW	-	0.4 SSW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SW	0.6 SSW	-	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	-	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.3 W	-
Period (s)	11	11	16	16	-	18	15	15	15	18	16	-	17	16	-	16	16	16	16	15	22	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.0 E	1.7 E	1.5 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	3.0 WNW	2.5 WNW	2.5 WNW	-	-
Period (s)	8	7	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	10	9	9	9	8	-	-

	Monday 25
	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM
Best forecast wave conditions in British-Columbia	Port Renfrew Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Port Renfrew Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	Lepus Beach (Haida-Gwaii) Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Jordan River Vancouver Island	Jordan River Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	China Beach Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island	Cox Bay Vancouver Island
Rating	2	2	4	3	4	8	7	8	7	5	5	0	4	3	0	5	4	4	4	4	2	0
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.9 W	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	0.8 W	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	1.6 SW	0.7 W	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.1 W	2.2 W	2.3 W	2.4 W	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW
Period(s)	13	10	10	13	10	10	10	12	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	15	15	15	15	14	14
Energy	314	444	444	249	482	535	545	291	1897	2099	1264	1225	1223	1357	1438	1616	7214	7189	7190	7264	6953	7269
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	off	off	off	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)
Low Tide / height (m)					3:57AM 2.12											2:55PM 0.98	3:08PM 1.11
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	3	1	1	2	1	1	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	11	10	9	11	9	10	9	11	10	10	11	11	11	11	11	12	11	11	11	11	11	11
Chill °C (?)	10	8	6	10	6	7	6	9	9	8	9	11	11	11	11	12	8	9	9	9	9	9
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:33	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:13
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 W	1.4 SW	1.4 SW	0.8 W	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	1.6 SW	1.0 WSW	2.5 WSW	3.0 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.2 WSW	2.1 W	2.2 W	2.3 W	2.4 W	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW
Period (s)	13	10	10	13	10	10	10	7	11	11	11	11	12	12	12	12	15	15	15	15	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.3 SW	0.6 W	0.6 W	0.3 SW	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.5 W	0.7 W	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	0.3 SW	-	-	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 SW
Period (s)	16	11	11	16	11	11	11	12	16	16	16	16	16	16	-	-	18	18	18	15	15	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	2.0 E	2.0 E	-	1.8 E	1.7 E	1.6 E	0.4 SE	1.5 SSE	1.5 SSE	0.4 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	8	8	-	7	7	6	2	6	6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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