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 04			Sunday 05			Monday 06			Tuesday 07			Wednesday 08			Thursday 09			Friday 10
	Night	PM	PM	Night	PM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Egg Island Eleuthera	Pinitas Guerrero	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Egg Island Eleuthera	Pascuales Colima	Chacahua Oaxaca	Pascuales Colima	Pascuales Colima	Pascuales Colima	Ocos Pacific Coast	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Celestino Sinaloa	Morro Negrito Veraguas	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Hammerhead Nayarit	Puerto Escondido Oaxaca	La Saladita Guerrero	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca
Rating	3	3	4	4	3	5	4	5	7	5	3	5	5	2	4	4	4	4	4	3	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.8 SSW	2.4 NE	0.9 SSW	2.5 SE	1.5 NE	2.0 SSE	1.0 SSW	3.5 SSW	4.0 SSW	4.5 SSW	0.9 SSW	3.0 SW	3.5 SSW	0.4 SSW	2.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.1 W	1.4 W	1.5 SW	1.4 SE	2.2 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	11	18	8	12	8	17	11	12	13	14	12	14	16	12	11	12	11	11	10	12	11
Energy(?)	463	1701	628	1740	1163	955	1394	3042	4992	6931	565	4143	4158	172	1901	1721	1892	704	807	987	1210	1547
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	glass	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	off
High Tide / height (m)		11:10AM 0.79	12:16PM 2.32	1:52AM 3.07	7:35AM 1.72	1:06PM 2.50	1:25AM 2.04		1:46PM 1.72	1:51AM 0.83	8:40AM 0.59		9:53PM 1.05	9:22AM 1.17			3:50AM 1.14		11:34PM 0.65	4:43AM 1.19	4:56PM 0.80	12:13AM 0.99
Low Tide / height (m)		4:37AM 0.26		7:35PM 0.70	1:37PM 0.37		7:07PM 0.34	7:06AM 0.29		7:05PM 0.23	3:26AM 0.42	3:50PM 0.18		3:28AM 0.41	4:24PM 0.19		10:25AM 0.09	4:47PM 0.08		11:15AM 0.06
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	light rain	rain shwrs	heavy rain	heavy rain	heavy rain	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds	mod. rain	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	light rain
Rain (mm)	4	5	-	16	1	4	1	18	28	16	-	3	13	1	-	1	-	7	3	1	-	4
High °C	25	27	26	26	27	27	26	24	23	24	26	27	26	27	30	26	28	27	26	29	29	24
Low °C	25	27	26	24	26	24	25	23	23	23	25	27	24	27	28	25	28	25	25	29	27	23
Chill °C (?)	25	27	26	26	27	27	26	24	23	24	26	27	26	27	30	26	28	27	26	29	29	24
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:47	-	-	5:58	-	-	6:13	-	-	6:58	-	-	6:58	-	-
Sunset	-	6:51	6:21	-	6:50	6:40	-	-	6:39	-	-	6:42	-	-	6:40	-	-	6:10	-	-	6:39	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.8 SSW	2.4 NE	0.9 SSW	1.6 SSE	1.6 NE	0.8 SSW	1.5 SW	3.5 SSW	4.0 SSW	4.5 SSW	0.9 WSW	3.0 SW	3.5 SSW	0.6 WSW	2.3 WSW	2.5 WSW	2.4 WSW	1.1 W	1.4 W	1.5 SW	1.4 SE	2.2 WSW
Period (s)	14	11	18	8	8	15	9	11	12	13	9	12	14	6	12	11	12	11	11	10	12	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 WSW	0.9 N	0.6 S	0.8 SSW	1.5 NE	0.5 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.6 SW	0.7 SSW	0.2 WNW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	-	0.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	1.0 SSE	1.2 W	1.4 SW	1.0 S
Period (s)	7	11	8	16	12	12	14	16	16	15	14	14	-	16	9	12	12	11	11	11	9	11
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.3 NNE	0.4 NW	2.5 SE	0.4 NE	2.0 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	1.9 S	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 SSE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	12	3	8	12	8	-	-	-	-	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-

	Fri	Saturday 04								Sunday 05								Monday 06
	9PM	0AM	3AM	7AM	8AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Tenexpa Guerrero	Chacahua Oaxaca	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Mariatos Veraguas	Celestino Sinaloa	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Pinitas Guerrero	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Pinitas Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	La Saladita Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	Chacahua Oaxaca	Pascuales Colima	Pascuales Colima	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit
Rating	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.7 SSW	0.6 SW	0.9 SSW	1.6 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.9 S	1.2 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	2.2 SE	2.2 SE	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	3.0 S	3.0 S	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.2 S
Period(s) (?)	14	19	15	17	13	17	17	17	16	17	16	16	8	8	15	15	14	10	11	9	10	12
Energy(?)	590	576	524	1529	573	682	743	1059	574	1010	1332	1276	1371	1364	721	965	1159	3275	3153	1036	1314	1515
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	glass	glass	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	high	high	mid-ebb	low-ebb	high	mid-flow	high	low	low	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)	8:40PM 0.56	10:34PM 0.69			7:18AM 1.60		12:05PM 1.74			11:17PM 0.66			8:27AM 1.07
Low Tide / height (m)								5:08PM 0.30	6:17PM 0.42		2:47AM 0.21				3:00PM 0.25		6:23PM 0.25		2:49AM 0.20		7:17AM 0.25
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	some clouds	clear	some clouds	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	light rain	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	mod. rain	mod. rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	5	3	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	5	5	1	2	8	9	-	1	4	-	-	-
Temp. °C	26	25	25	26	27	26	27	26	27	26	25	24	27	27	24	24	26	24	23	25	26	29
Chill °C (?)	26	25	25	26	27	26	27	26	27	26	25	24	27	27	24	24	26	24	23	25	26	29
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:11	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:20	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:45	6:21	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:31	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSW	1.6 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SW	1.1 SSW	1.3 SSW	0.9 S	1.2 SSW	1.3 S	1.3 S	1.5 SSE	1.5 SSE	1.5 S	1.6 S	1.5 SW	3.0 S	3.0 S	1.6 WSW	1.7 WSW	2.2 S
Period (s)	7	8	15	17	13	17	17	17	16	17	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	10	11	9	10	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 SSW	0.6 SW	0.6 WSW	0.3 SW	0.4 SSW	0.6 W	0.6 SSW	0.6 S	0.6 SSW	0.9 SW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SW	1.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	0.5 S
Period (s)	14	19	6	20	19	6	7	8	7	8	16	16	16	15	15	15	14	14	16	13	13	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.6 S	1.6 S	2.2 SE	2.2 SE	1.3 SE	1.4 SE	-	3.0 SE	2.5 SE	-	-	-
Period (s)	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	8	8	8	5	5	-	8	8	-	-	-

	Friday 03					Saturday 04
	7PM	8PM	9PM	11PM	10PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Tenexpa Guerrero	Chacahua Oaxaca	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Mariatos Veraguas	Celestino Sinaloa	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	El Zunzal Costa del Balsamo	Pinitas Guerrero	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Pinitas Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	La Saladita Guerrero	La Saladita Guerrero	Chacahua Oaxaca	Pascuales Colima	Pascuales Colima	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit
Rating	3	3	3	4	3	3	3	4	3	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	5	5	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.4 SW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SSW	0.8 S	0.7 SSW	0.5 SW	1.6 SE	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	1.7 SSE	1.6 SE	0.6 S	1.8 SE	2.0 SSE	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 S
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	20	14	13	19	14	19	19	6	13	13	7	7	17	8	8	17	17	9
Energy(?)	354	449	454	651	255	463	265	642	364	642	568	591	266	262	625	598	450	683	792	594	594	147
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	on	off	on	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross	on	on	cross	cross	off
High Tide / height (m)															8:54AM 0.66
Low Tide / height (m)
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	risk thund- der	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	2	1	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	1	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	27	28	25	26	27	25	26	24	25	25	25	25	24	25	25	25	28	29	29	28	27	29
Chill °C (?)	27	28	25	26	27	25	26	24	25	25	25	25	24	25	25	25	28	29	29	28	27	29
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSW	0.8 S	0.8 SSW	0.9 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.8 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.9 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	0.8 SSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 S
Period (s)	6	9	14	12	9	14	13	14	14	14	6	6	8	8	7	7	8	8	8	17	17	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSW	0.6 WSW	0.8 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 WSW	0.7 SW	0.8 SSE	0.7 SSW	0.8 SSE	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SW	0.6 SSW	0.6 SSW	0.7 SSE	0.7 SSE	0.6 SW
Period (s)	14	14	6	14	12	7	7	8	7	8	13	13	9	9	13	13	13	13	13	8	8	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.3 SSE	0.9 SE	-	-	0.2 W	-	-	-	-	-	1.5 SE	1.6 SE	-	-	1.7 SSE	1.6 SE	-	1.8 SE	2.0 SSE	0.5 WNW	0.5 WNW	-
Period (s)	6	6	-	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	-	-	7	7	-	8	8	3	3	-

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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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