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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7 day 48 hour

	Friday 11			Saturday 12			Sunday 13			Monday 14			Tuesday 15			Wednesday 16			Thursday 17			Fri
	PM	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	San Augustin Oaxaca	Cañaveral Caribbean	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Mariatos Veraguas	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Hammerhead Nayarit	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Chacahua Oaxaca	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Chacahua Oaxaca	Puerto Escondido Oaxaca	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 SE	0.9 SSW	2.3 NE	0.9 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.2 S	0.9 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	7	16	8	15	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	18	16	17	16	16	16	16	17	15	15	15
Energy(?)	248	441	669	344	733	554	638	478	433	362	518	591	870	1175	742	892	1081	838	754	637	485	462
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	on	cross	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	off	on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	glass	glass	on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	off	off
High Tide / height (m)	10:54AM 0.86	3:07PM 1.81	9:09PM 1.08	3:43AM 1.76			11:49AM 0.87		1:03AM 0.34		12:14PM 1.23	1:44AM 0.31		12:49PM 0.88	11:54PM 0.81		1:25PM 0.88	3:25AM 0.21	8:11AM 3.28
Low Tide / height (m)				9:36AM 0.41	3:59PM 0.62	10:22PM 0.17	4:56AM 0.12	4:38PM 0.60		5:35AM 0.22	5:32PM 0.72		9:34AM 0.07		6:25PM 0.58	6:22AM 0.42		11:32PM 0.17		1:32PM 0.36	10:23PM 0.47
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	mod. rain	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	light rain	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	1	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	-	1	-
High °C	30	29	26	28	30	26	26	30	27	28	29	27	29	28	27	29	28	27	28	30	27	27
Low °C	30	28	25	28	29	24	25	29	25	27	27	25	28	27	25	28	28	25	28	28	24	25
Chill °C (?)	30	29	26	28	30	26	26	30	27	28	29	27	29	28	27	29	28	27	28	30	27	27
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:30	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:31	-	-	5:37	-	-	5:37	-	-	5:22	-	-	6:30
Sunset	7:30	7:00	-	-	7:39	-	-	7:39	-	-	6:36	-	-	7:06	-	-	7:06	-	-	7:39	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	-	0.9 SSW	-	0.9 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.2 S	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SW	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW
Period (s)	-	16	-	15	16	16	14	14	14	14	14	13	16	17	16	16	16	16	17	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.8 S	-	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.9 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.9 S	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSE	0.8 S	0.8 S	0.7 SSE	0.8 S	0.7 S	0.5 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S
Period (s)	-	11	-	10	10	9	7	9	9	9	18	18	7	10	12	9	9	8	6	9	9	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.7 SE	-	2.3 NE	-	-	0.4 NW	-	0.2 WNW	0.6 WNW	-	-	0.5 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	7	-	8	-	-	4	-	8	4	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Friday 11					Saturday 12								Sunday 13								Mon
	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	10AM	12PM	3PM	7PM	10PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	1PM	4PM	6PM	9PM	0AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	San Augustin Oaxaca	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Cañaveral Caribbean	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Cañaveral Caribbean	Cañaveral Caribbean	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Cañaveral Caribbean	Mariatos Veraguas	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	3	3	2	3	3	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.9 NE	0.7 S	1.1 SSW	1.9 NE	2.2 NE	1.1 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	2.1 NE	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW
Period(s) (?)	16	16	16	16	15	18	15	15	8	18	16	9	9	16	15	15	15	8	14	14	14	14
Energy(?)	367	266	436	412	335	877	382	344	517	300	582	529	698	554	588	573	573	520	501	508	465	433
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-flow	mid-ebb	high	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)				3:08PM 2.00						11:14AM 1.19				9:44PM 1.06						4:30PM 2.03		10:20PM 1.00
Low Tide / height (m)						9:44PM 0.20		4:26AM 0.07	8:46AM 0.04							4:56AM 0.12
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	risk thund- der	light rain	risk thund- der	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	3	1	1	-	-
Temp. °C	27	29	30	28	26	26	24	24	27	28	28	27	25	25	25	24	27	28	25	28	27	26
Chill °C (?)	27	29	30	28	26	26	24	24	27	28	28	27	25	25	25	24	27	28	25	28	27	26
Sunrise	6:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:28	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:45	6:29	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SW	0.8 S	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.9 NE	0.8 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.9 NE	2.2 NE	1.1 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	-	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW
Period (s)	16	11	16	16	15	18	15	15	8	15	16	9	9	16	15	15	15	-	14	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 S	0.7 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 SSE	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.7 S	0.7 S	-	0.7 S	0.7 S	-	-	0.7 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	-	1.0 SSW	0.5 S	0.6 S	0.6 S
Period (s)	11	16	10	7	10	10	10	10	-	10	10	-	-	9	9	9	9	-	6	7	9	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 NNW	-	-	-	0.4 NW	0.7 NW	0.7 NW	-	2.1 NE	-	-	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	-	-	-	4	4	4	-	8	-	-	4	4

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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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