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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	Fri		Saturday 19			Sunday 20			Monday 21			Tuesday 22			Wednesday 23			Thursday 24			Fri
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Chacahua Oaxaca	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Isla Grande Colón	Playa Negra Limon	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Isla Grande Colón	Mariatos Veraguas	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Punta Roca Caribbean	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Isla Grande Colón	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	3	2	3	3	2	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.3 NE	2.0 ENE	0.9 SSW	2.1 NE	0.5 SSW	0.8 SSE	0.5 SW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SW	1.0 SSW	1.4 NNE	1.0 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.5 NE	0.6 SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	10	10	13	9	17	9	16	15	16	15	15	15	14	14	8	13	13	13	8	12
Energy(?)	613	369	964	756	317	625	385	289	273	414	500	464	580	565	341	510	213	419	314	297	306	229
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross	cross- off	glass	on	glass	glass	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	glass	on
High Tide / height (m)		8:28PM 2.32	9:06AM 1.07		8:54PM 0.73	9:58AM 0.16	5:44PM 0.97		10:13AM 0.10		9:43PM 0.50	12:20PM 0.15		10:40PM 0.49	10:06AM 0.92	1:08PM 1.50	11:12PM 0.46		1:53PM 1.04	3:56AM 3.25
Low Tide / height (m)		2:33AM 0.55		3:29PM 0.23			12:41PM 0.77	12:42AM 0.19	4:35AM 0.03	1:18PM 0.08		6:08AM 0.03	2:04PM 0.14					8:05AM 0.02		9:37PM 0.20	9:59AM 0.48	3:50PM 0.58
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der
Rain (mm)	-	-	3	6	-	3	5	-	1	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	6	-	1
High °C	30	27	28	27	27	28	27	28	28	32	27	28	30	28	26	31	27	28	31	27	28	30
Low °C	30	25	28	26	25	28	27	26	28	30	25	28	30	26	25	29	26	28	30	25	27	29
Chill °C (?)	30	27	28	27	27	28	27	28	28	32	27	28	30	28	26	31	27	28	31	27	28	30
Sunrise	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:05	-	-	5:24	-	-	5:24	-	-	5:24	-	-	6:35	-	-	6:07	-
Sunset	7:06	-	-	6:55	-	-	6:44	-	-	7:38	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:37
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.3 NE	2.0 ENE	0.9 SSW	2.1 NE	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSE	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	-	1.0 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.5 NE	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	14	14	10	10	13	9	7	9	6	15	16	15	15	15	7	14	-	13	13	13	8	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 S	-	-	0.2 SSW	-	0.8 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.5 S	0.2 WSW	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.8 SW	0.4 SSE	-	0.4 SW	0.5 S	0.5 S	-	0.4 SSE
Period (s)	8	9	-	-	16	-	12	12	13	12	10	5	10	9	14	9	-	14	8	8	-	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.2 WNW	-	-	0.4 WNW	-	-	-	-	0.3 WNW	0.4 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 NNE	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	5	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-	-	-

	Friday 18			Saturday 19								Sunday 20								Monday 21
	4PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	7AM	9AM	11AM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	9AM	12PM	4PM	7PM	9PM	1AM	4AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Mariatos Veraguas	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Playa Negra Limon	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Celestino Sinaloa	Isla Grande Colón	Isla Grande Colón	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Puerto Arista Oaxaca	Isla Grande Colón	Playa Negra Limon	Chacahua Oaxaca	Mariatos Veraguas	Mariatos Veraguas	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	3	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 SSW	0.9 SW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	2.2 ENE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.0 ENE	0.7 SSW	0.8 S	2.0 NE	1.8 NE	1.0 S	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	10	14	13	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	9	9	12	16	16	12
Energy(?)	705	381	523	512	501	970	447	319	1312	1186	756	890	848	748	217	271	612	505	505	726	840	239
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high-flow	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)			8:05PM 0.77								7:56PM 0.49				8:52AM 0.84	10:03AM 1.50				11:52PM 2.73
Low Tide / height (m)	3:26PM 0.63				2:15AM 0.01			8:34AM 1.06					3:39AM 0.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	mod. rain	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	risk thund- der	light rain	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy
Rain (mm)	5	5	-	-	-	6	-	-	2	2	-	3	4	5	-	-	2	1	-	1	2	-
Temp. °C	29	28	28	27	27	24	28	28	28	27	26	24	24	23	28	31	27	25	29	26	26	26
Chill °C (?)	29	28	28	27	27	24	28	28	28	27	26	24	24	23	28	31	27	25	29	26	26	26
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	6:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	6:45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:42	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:42	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 SSW	0.9 SW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	2.2 ENE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.5 NE	2.5 NE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.0 ENE	0.7 SSW	0.8 S	2.0 NE	1.8 NE	1.0 S	1.2 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.6 SSW
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	14	10	14	13	10	10	10	10	10	10	13	13	9	9	12	16	16	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	-	0.5 S	0.2 SSW	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.3 SSW	-	-	0.6 S	-	0.1 W	0.5 S
Period (s)	9	9	9	9	9	-	8	18	-	-	-	-	-	-	9	16	-	-	17	-	11	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Friday 18	Saturday 19
	2PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	7PM	7PM	7PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	3AM	4AM	6AM	7AM	7AM	9AM	10AM	10AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Mariatos Veraguas	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Playa Negra Limon	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Celestino Sinaloa	Isla Grande Colón	Isla Grande Colón	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Playa Negra Limon	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Puerto Arista Oaxaca	Isla Grande Colón	Playa Negra Limon	Chacahua Oaxaca	Mariatos Veraguas	Mariatos Veraguas	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	3	2	3	3	3	3	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	3	3	3	3	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.2 SSW	0.9 SW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 ENE	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.3 NE	2.2 ENE	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	9	14	15	10	10	9	10	10	10	14	14	10	10	14	13	13	14
Energy(?)	713	381	613	613	611	553	437	321	1092	1092	695	726	821	838	399	315	985	970	423	586	506	416
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	glass	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	glass
High Tide / height (m)																					9:59AM 3.13	9:13AM 0.77
Low Tide / height (m)			2:31PM 0.23											2:33AM 0.10
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	clear	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	clear
Rain (mm)	2	1	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	1	3	-	-	-	1	-	4	5	-
High °C	29	29	30	30	30	27	29	28	27	27	26	25	26	25	25	27	27	24	26	26	25	30
Chill °C (?)	29	29	30	30	30	27	29	28	27	27	26	25	26	25	25	27	27	24	26	26	25	30
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:18	6:07	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:38	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 SSW	0.9 SW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.9 ENE	1.0 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.4 NE	2.4 NE	2.0 ENE	2.0 ENE	2.1 ENE	2.1 ENE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	2.3 NE	2.2 ENE	1.0 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SSW	0.9 SSW
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	14	9	14	15	10	10	9	10	10	10	14	14	10	10	14	13	13	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 S	0.6 S	-	0.5 S	0.3 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 S	0.4 SSE	-	-	0.6 S	-	-	0.5 S
Period (s)	9	9	8	8	8	-	9	9	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	9	-	-	9	-	-	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 WNW	0.5 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-

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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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