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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	Sun		Monday 16			Tuesday 17			Wednesday 18			Thursday 19			Friday 20			Saturday 21			Sun
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Long Bay Jamaica	Tenexpa Guerrero	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Chacahua Oaxaca
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	2	3	3	2	3	3	1	3	2	2	2	3	1	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.8 SSW	1.9 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SW	0.6 SW	0.8 ESE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 E	0.5 SW
Period(s) (?)	18	17	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	16	16	16	8	15	14	13	14	13	9	21
Energy(?)	2164	2171	1484	1482	1465	836	840	777	489	534	514	532	514	407	87	478	403	277	305	293	81	427
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	on	off	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off	glass	on	off	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)		12:35AM 2.24	8:00AM 1.03		9:02PM 1.01	8:33AM 1.09	1:43PM 1.62	9:12PM 1.46	9:07AM 1.56		9:29PM 1.08	9:42AM 1.09	3:00PM 0.89		3:19AM 0.76		10:12PM 1.60	10:57AM 1.31		10:19PM 1.11	11:39AM 0.79
Low Tide / height (m)		6:26PM 0.90		2:37PM 0.13	2:42AM 0.40				3:04AM 0.36	3:21PM 0.22		3:34AM 0.22		9:25PM 0.21	9:20AM 0.15	4:06PM 0.41		4:44AM 0.17	4:17PM 0.47		5:15AM 0.18	4:21PM 0.55
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2	-	-	-	-
High °C	28	27	24	27	26	23	27	27	23	27	21	22	28	27	26	28	22	28	26	22	24	28
Low °C	26	25	24	26	24	23	26	24	23	25	19	22	26	24	25	27	19	28	25	20	24	28
Chill °C (?)	28	27	24	27	26	23	27	27	23	27	21	22	28	27	26	28	22	28	26	22	24	28
Sunrise	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:11	-	-	7:09	-	-	6:09	-	-	5:39	-	-	-	-
Sunset	7:07	-	-	7:07	-	-	7:08	-	-	7:08	-	-	7:08	-	-	6:52	-	-	7:09	-	7:34	6:42
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.8 SSW	1.9 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.0 SSW	1.0 SSW	0.8 SW	0.6 SW	0.8 ESE	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	0.7 SSW	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.7 E	0.5 SW
Period (s)	18	17	16	16	16	15	15	14	14	14	14	16	16	16	8	15	14	13	14	13	9	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 SW	0.6 SE	0.1 NW	0.5 WNW	0.3 SE	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.4 ESE	0.2 WNW	0.4 SW	0.4 SSW	0.2 WNW	0.8 SSW	0.5 S	0.3 NE	0.5 S	0.4 SSW	0.5 SW	0.5 S	0.5 S	0.1 E	0.5 S
Period (s)	12	7	14	5	6	5	5	10	5	19	18	11	13	16	10	15	10	15	13	13	14	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.5 NW	-	-	-	0.5 SSE	-	-	0.2 W	0.4 NW	0.2 NNW	0.4 NW	-	-	-	0.4 WNW	-	-	-	0.2 ESE	0.3 SSW
Period (s)	-	-	5	-	-	-	4	-	-	5	3	4	4	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	2	9

	Sunday 15			Monday 16								Tuesday 17								Wednesday 18
	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Hammerhead Nayarit	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 SSW	1.6 SW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.7 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW
Period(s) (?)	18	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14
Energy(?)	1908	1448	1908	1761	1508	1629	1573	1466	1470	1451	1300	1198	1284	1218	1011	825	811	706	726	713	601	620
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	glass	glass	cross- off	off	off	glass	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)			8:53PM 0.97									9:02PM 1.01	12:32AM 0.79							9:14PM 1.05
Low Tide / height (m)	2:15PM 0.20				2:24AM 0.50		6:46AM 0.48		2:35PM 0.16						6:55AM 0.31		2:58PM 0.17					3:06AM 0.30
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	25	27	22	21	21	20	27	24	24	25	22	20	25	24	26	23	24	24	22	20	19	18
Chill °C (?)	25	27	22	21	21	20	27	24	24	25	22	20	25	24	26	23	24	24	22	20	19	18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:14	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:14	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 SSW	1.6 SW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.7 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.5 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.3 SSW	1.2 SSW	1.2 SSW
Period (s)	18	17	17	17	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	16	15	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	14	14
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SW	-	0.7 SW	0.5 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.6 WNW	0.5 SSW	0.1 NW	0.5 NW	0.1 W	0.2 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.3 SE	0.2 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.3 W	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW
Period (s)	12	-	12	5	6	6	11	14	5	14	14	5	6	6	7	5	5	5	5	5	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.2 WNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 WNW	0.4 WNW	0.7 NW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	5	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Sunday 15											Monday 16
	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Costa Rica	Hammerhead Nayarit	Dominical Golfo de Nicoya	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	El Paredon Pacific Coast	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Chacahua Oaxaca	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Hammerhead Nayarit	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco	Barre de Navidad Jalisco
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.5 SSW	1.3 SW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW
Period(s) (?)	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	16	17	16	16	16	16	16	16
Energy(?)	1581	1234	2164	2167	2167	2145	2137	1949	1928	1928	1878	1761	2076	2089	2041	1522	1486	1302	1685	1684	1662	1662
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)									8:45PM 1.30											8:00AM 1.03
Low Tide / height (m)			2:17PM 0.14				6:01PM 0.59
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	24	29	28	28	27	26	28	25	25	25	21	21	25	25	24	24	24	24	20	21	24	25
Chill °C (?)	24	29	28	28	27	26	28	25	25	25	21	21	25	25	24	24	24	24	20	21	24	25
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:05	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 SSW	1.3 SW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 S	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.9 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.7 SSW	1.6 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW	1.8 SSW
Period (s)	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	18	17	17	17	17	16	17	16	16	16	16	16	16
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.7 SW	0.7 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.7 SSW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.5 WNW	0.5 WNW	0.3 SSE	0.5 SW	0.5 SW	0.5 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW
Period (s)	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	15	15	15	5	5	7	11	11	5	14	14	6	6	6	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.5 NW	-	-	-	0.6 WNW	0.6 WNW	-	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.5 NW	0.5 NW	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	4	-	-	-	5	5	-	12	12	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	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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