Costa Rica Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Costa Rica 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 Costa Rica region.

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	Tuesday 30			Wednesday 31			Thursday 01			Friday 02			Saturday 03			Sunday 04			Monday 05			Tue
	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 Costa Rica	Jacmel South Coast	Chacahua Oaxaca	Playa Negra Limon	Delray Beach Florida - South	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Punta Roca Caribbean	Cañaveral Caribbean	Playa Negra Limon	Punta Roca Caribbean	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Bluff Bocas del Toro	Jacmel South Coast	Isla Grande Colón	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Cañaveral Caribbean	Mariatos Veraguas	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Hammerhead Nayarit
Rating	1	2	2	1	3	1	1	2	1	1	1	2	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SE	0.4 SW	1.5 ENE	1.3 N	0.7 WNW	1.0 NNE	1.0 NE	1.1 ENE	1.1 NNE	0.5 SSW	1.6 NE	1.0 SE	1.0 N	0.4 NW	0.4 SW	1.1 NE	0.7 SSW	0.4 SW	0.5 S	0.6 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 SSW
Period(s) (?)	6	12	8	7	8	5	6	8	5	11	8	8	7	13	16	6	15	16	15	14	14	13
Energy(?)	32	62	315	284	133	65	84	210	74	80	276	108	201	70	160	101	231	181	166	215	203	102
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross	glass	cross	cross- on	glass	cross- on	cross	off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)				11:35AM 2.27		11:40PM 1.10	10:22AM 0.52		1:33AM 0.14			7:13PM 0.86	8:38AM 1.16		10:59PM 0.91	9:17AM 1.14			12:52PM 0.39	4:17PM 2.87	3:39AM 0.12	5:01AM 0.29
Low Tide / height (m)		4:16PM 0.40	9:04PM -0.39	5:26AM 0.46	5:51PM 0.04			6:58PM 0.01	2:14AM 0.14	7:29AM 0.16	1:09PM -0.01	1:31AM -0.24	3:01AM 0.65	4:01PM -0.07		3:36AM 0.63		1:26AM -0.38	4:02AM 0.07		9:12PM 0.01	9:19AM 0.23
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	26	27	25	14	29	26	28	27	26	28	26	24	26	27	27	27	27	23	23	28	23	23
Low °C	25	27	23	10	27	25	28	25	25	27	25	23	26	26	25	27	26	22	23	25	21	23
Chill °C (?)	26	27	25	13	29	26	28	27	26	28	26	24	26	27	27	27	27	23	23	28	23	23
Sunrise	6:20	-	-	7:07	-	-	6:13	-	-	5:50	-	-	6:35	-	-	6:15	-	-	7:43	-	-	7:43
Sunset	-	6:08	-	-	6:30	-	-	6:21	-	-	6:20	-	-	6:32	-	-	6:19	-	-	6:35	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	0.5 S	1.5 ENE	1.1 N	0.5 S	0.1 N	0.1 NE	1.1 ENE	0.1 N	0.5 SSW	1.6 NE	1.0 SE	1.0 N	0.4 WNW	0.4 S	0.1 NW	0.7 SSW	0.4 SSW	0.5 S	0.6 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.5 WNW
Period (s)	-	7	8	7	8	14	14	8	11	11	8	8	7	6	10	7	15	15	15	14	14	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.4 E	-	-	0.3 SSW	-	-	-	-	0.1 SW	-	0.1 W	0.9 ENE	0.3 SSE	0.4 SW	0.1 N	0.5 SW	0.4 S	0.4 WNW	0.4 SSE	0.4 WNW	0.5 SSW
Period (s)	-	9	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	16	-	7	7	8	16	11	6	8	5	8	14	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.7 SE	0.4 S	-	1.3 N	0.7 WNW	1.0 NNE	1.0 NE	0.9 N	1.1 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 NE	-	-	-	-	0.2 WNW	-
Period (s)	6	3	-	7	8	5	6	6	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	6	-

	Tuesday 30					Wednesday 31								Thursday 01								Fri
	10AM	12PM	4PM	6PM	10PM	0AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	12PM	4PM	7PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	6PM	10PM	1AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Bluff Bocas del Toro	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Jacmel South Coast	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Playa Negra Limon	Chacahua Oaxaca	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Delray Beach Florida - South	Delray Beach Florida - South	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Punta Roca Caribbean	Jacmel South Coast	Cañaveral Caribbean	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Cañaveral Caribbean	Playa Negra Limon
Rating	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 ENE	0.4 SW	0.9 ESE	0.4 SW	1.5 ENE	1.0 ESE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.5 NE	0.4 WNW	1.0 NNE	1.0 NNE	1.6 NW	2.0 NW	1.3 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.0 NNE	0.9 SE	1.0 NE	0.5 SSW	0.9 NE	1.6 NE
Period(s) (?)	9	12	6	12	8	10	8	8	8	10	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	11	7	7
Energy(?)	430	68	92	61	315	260	338	346	311	74	124	114	284	661	242	232	97	101	116	69	93	281
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	high	low	mid-flow	high	high-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	high	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)	8:59AM 0.51	10:16AM 1.61				10:40PM 1.07			9:25AM 0.51	11:24AM 1.64		5:14PM 0.79		9:12PM 0.92			9:18AM 0.63				9:55PM 0.03
Low Tide / height (m)				4:26PM 0.65			1:22AM 0.13								1:47AM 0.69
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	rain shwrs	clear	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	3
Temp. °C	26	30	25	26	25	25	23	23	24	30	16	15	25	25	24	24	27	27	27	26	26	23
Chill °C (?)	26	30	25	26	25	25	23	23	24	30	15	14	25	25	24	24	27	27	27	26	26	23
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	5:23	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:43	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 ENE	0.5 S	0.7 SE	0.4 SW	1.5 ENE	1.0 ESE	1.6 NE	1.6 NE	1.5 NE	0.4 WNW	1.0 NNE	1.0 NNE	0.5 S	1.4 WNW	1.3 WNW	1.1 WNW	1.0 NNE	0.9 SE	1.0 NE	0.5 SSW	0.4 NNW	1.6 NE
Period (s)	9	7	6	12	8	10	8	8	8	10	8	7	7	7	7	7	7	8	7	11	5	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.4 SW	-	0.4 SSW	-	0.4 S	-	-	-	0.4 SE	0.1 E	-	0.2 SSW	0.5 S	0.5 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.1 NW	-	0.2 NNW	0.2 WNW	0.1 NE	-
Period (s)	-	12	-	8	-	7	-	-	-	7	8	-	11	8	9	8	7	-	6	11	14	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 NE	0.9 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.6 NW	2.0 NW	-	-	-	0.2 N	-	-	0.9 NE	-
Period (s)	-	3	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	7	-	-	-	3	-	-	7	-

	Tuesday 30	Wednesday 31
	8AM	8AM	10AM	10AM	12PM	12PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	4PM	6PM	7PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	2AM	4AM	5AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Bluff Bocas del Toro	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Jacmel South Coast	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Playa Negra Limon	Chacahua Oaxaca	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Delray Beach Florida - South	Delray Beach Florida - South	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Punta Roca Caribbean	Jacmel South Coast	Cañaveral Caribbean	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Cañaveral Caribbean	Playa Negra Limon
Rating	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	2	3	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 ENE	0.4 SW	0.7 SE	0.4 SW	1.6 ENE	0.4 SW	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	0.4 SW	1.4 N	1.4 N	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	1.7 NNE	0.8 SE	1.7 NE	0.4 SSW	1.5 NE	1.6 NE
Period(s) (?)	9	13	6	12	9	12	9	9	9	12	8	8	12	12	12	12	7	6	7	13	7	8
Energy(?)	440	59	32	81	404	84	395	395	386	74	285	278	66	66	65	65	297	66	281	78	210	338
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	glass	cross	off	cross	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)															8:32PM 0.88
Low Tide / height (m)
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	25	26	25	28	28	26	28	28	27	30	16	16	26	25	24	24	26	23	25	25	25	23
Chill °C (?)	25	26	25	28	28	26	28	28	27	30	15	15	26	25	24	24	26	23	25	25	25	23
Sunrise	6:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 ENE	0.4 SW	-	0.4 SSW	1.6 ENE	0.5 SE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	0.5 S	0.6 NE	0.6 NE	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	-	0.6 SE	0.1 NE	0.4 SSW	0.1 NE	1.6 NE
Period (s)	9	13	-	8	9	7	9	9	9	7	10	10	9	9	8	8	-	6	16	13	16	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.3 S	-	0.4 SW	-	0.5 S	-	-	-	0.4 SE	-	-	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SW	-	-	-	0.3 S	-	-
Period (s)	-	7	-	12	-	7	-	-	-	6	-	-	12	12	12	12	-	-	-	7	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.3 NE	0.7 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 N	1.4 N	-	-	-	-	1.7 NNE	0.8 SE	1.7 NE	-	1.5 NE	-
Period (s)	-	3	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	-	-	-	-	7	6	7	-	7	-

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Alabama	Guadeloupe	Puerto Rico
Anguilla	Haiti	Rhode-Island
Barbados	Jamaica	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Bermuda	Martinique	Saint Lucia
British Virgin Islands	Maryland	South-Carolina
Cayman Islands	Massachusetts	The Bahamas
Delaware	Montserrat	Turks and Caicos Islands
Dominican Republic	New-Jersey	US Virgin Islands
Florida	New-York	Virginia
Georgia-USA	North-Carolina
Grenada	Pennsylvania

California	Mexico	Oregon
Louisiana	Minnesota	Texas

Aruba	Ecuador	Peru
Brazil	French Guiana	Trinidad and Tobago
Colombia	Netherlands Antilles	Venezuela

Belize	Guatemala Pacific Coast	Nicaragua
Bocas del Toro	Guerrero	Oaxaca
Cayman Islands Grand Cayman	Gulf of Panama	Panama
Colima	Haiti South Coast	Panama Veraguas
Colon	Honduras Mainland	Rivas Province
El Salvador Costa del Balsamo	Jalisco	Sinaloa
Eleuthera Bahamas	Jamaica	South Florida
Golfo Dulce	Leon Province	Texas
Golfo de Nicoya	Limon	Tola Province
Great Abaco Bahamas	Michoacan	Veraguas
Guanacaste	Nayarit

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