District-of-Columbia Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

District-of-Columbia 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 District-of-Columbia region.

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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Thursday 07			Friday 08			Saturday 09			Sunday 10			Monday 11			Tuesday 12			Wednesday 13			Thu
	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 District-of-Columbia	Chandeleur Islands Louisiana	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Coastal Bend Area Texas	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Assateague Maryland	Coastguards Long Island NY	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	The Wall New Hampshire	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda
Rating	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	1	2	2	1	1	1	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.7 SSE	1.4 SW	1.2 SSE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	0.9 ESE	1.0 SE	1.1 SE	2.0 SSE	1.4 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.6 SE	1.7 SSE	1.4 S	0.9 NNE	0.6 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.4 W	1.1 SE	1.3 N	1.1 N
Period(s)	5	7	7	7	9	9	6	9	7	7	6	7	6	8	8	4	7	8	8	9	8	8
Energy	27	355	163	114	211	206	73	182	390	234	70	108	66	401	370	74	46	101	435	189	282	300
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- on	off	off	off
High Tide / height (m)	11:52AM 0.59		1:28AM 0.78	1:30PM 1.46	2:00PM 1.27	1:54AM 0.71		2:45PM 1.30	2:52AM 1.37		2:38PM 0.93			3:41PM 0.73		4:55AM 1.41	5:13PM 1.01		6:00AM 1.25		2:48AM 0.45	6:37AM 1.31
Low Tide / height (m)		5:27PM 0.21	7:10PM 0.18	7:55AM 0.32			8:16AM 0.44		8:47PM 0.65	9:25AM 0.44		9:35PM 0.45	9:18AM 0.12		10:27PM 0.50	11:08AM 0.37		11:50PM 0.38		12:17PM 0.58	7:13PM 0.19
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	heavy rain	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	light rain	some clouds	clear	light rain	heavy rain	mod. rain	heavy rain	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	15	-	-	-	-	-	-	5	-	-	2	12	9	32	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	24	8	10	9	9	9	26	11	11	16	19	15	9	11	9	12	16	11	19	11	20	21
Low °C	24	8	5	9	9	5	25	11	9	11	18	11	9	10	7	8	13	6	19	10	19	20
Chill °C (?)	24	6	8	8	7	6	26	11	9	15	19	15	5	9	7	10	14	9	19	9	20	21
Sunrise	6:07	-	-	5:37	-	-	6:41	-	-	5:22	-	-	5:33	-	-	5:52	-	-	6:22	-	-	6:22
Sunset	-	8:23	-	-	8:19	-	-	8:21	-	-	7:59	-	-	8:31	-	-	7:54	-	-	8:25	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.7 SSE	1.2 SSE	1.2 SSE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	0.9 ESE	-	1.1 SE	0.5 E	1.4 SSE	0.8 SSE	0.9 SSE	0.6 SE	1.7 SSE	1.4 S	0.4 ESE	0.6 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.4 W	1.1 SE	1.3 N	1.1 N
Period (s)	5	6	7	7	9	9	-	9	9	7	6	7	6	8	8	7	7	8	8	9	8	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.6 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.4 SE	-	0.4 SSE	-	-	0.1 S	0.4 ESE	0.3 E	0.3 E	0.5 S	0.1 SE	1.2 ESE	0.3 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.3 SW	0.6 NW	0.5 N	0.6 WSW	0.6 ENE
Period (s)	-	8	7	11	-	7	-	-	13	9	9	9	6	15	7	11	11	3	10	5	7	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.3 WSW	1.4 SW	-	-	0.4 WNW	0.7 SSW	1.0 SE	-	2.0 SSE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.9 NNE	0.3 SW	-	0.6 NNW	0.9 NW	-	-
Period (s)	3	7	-	-	3	8	6	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	2	-	6	4	-	-

	Thursday 07						Friday 08								Saturday 09
	5AM	8AM	12PM	2PM	6PM	8PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	11AM	3PM	5PM	8PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	4PM	9PM
Best forecast wave conditions in District-of-Columbia	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	Georgica (East Hampton) Long Island NY	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	Georgica Pond Long Island NY	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Coastal Bend Area Texas	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island
Rating	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.4 S	1.4 S	1.3 ENE	0.8 SE	1.0 SE	1.9 SW	1.3 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.4 SE	1.3 SE	0.4 SSE	1.1 SE	0.6 ESE	1.1 SSW	1.2 SE	1.1 SW	1.2 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	0.9 SE	1.1 SE
Period(s)	7	7	9	6	7	6	7	7	7	10	7	9	9	7	9	8	9	8	9	9	6	9
Energy	209	210	264	92	185	459	267	276	207	320	42	211	98	237	221	332	203	158	178	182	65	186
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off
Tide State	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	high	low	mid-flow	high	high-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				12:44PM 1.46				12:49AM 1.39				12:24PM 1.21				1:53AM 1.40	3:14AM 1.01			1:15PM 1.14
Low Tide / height (m)		5:42AM 0.15				6:37PM 0.14				7:40AM 0.42				6:22PM 0.24				8:32AM 0.44				8:45PM 0.40
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	light rain	clear	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	risk thund- der	some clouds
Rain (mm)	2	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-
Temp. °C	10	9	19	32	11	19	8	7	5	8	14	9	13	13	5	5	4	9	11	11	27	9
Chill °C (?)	7	6	19	32	10	19	6	5	2	6	13	7	11	13	2	2	2	8	11	11	27	8
Sunrise	-	5:39	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:00	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:35	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	8:28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:51	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 S	1.4 S	1.3 ENE	0.7 SE	1.0 SE	1.5 SSW	1.3 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.4 SE	1.3 SE	0.4 SSE	1.1 SE	0.6 S	0.6 ESE	1.2 SE	0.9 ESE	1.2 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	0.9 SE	1.1 SE
Period (s)	7	7	9	6	7	6	7	7	7	10	7	9	7	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	6	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 E	0.2 SSE	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.2 ESE	1.0 SW	1.0 SW	0.4 SW	0.4 SSW	0.3 ESE	-	0.6 ESE	0.6 ESE	-	0.7 SSW	-	0.6 S	-	-	0.3 ENE	0.1 NW
Period (s)	-	9	6	10	12	9	8	7	8	8	8	-	9	9	-	8	-	7	-	-	4	4
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.5 N	-	0.8 SE	0.9 SSW	1.9 SW	-	0.4 NW	0.2 WNW	-	0.5 N	0.4 WNW	0.6 SW	1.1 SSW	0.3 WNW	1.1 SW	0.3 NW	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	3	-	6	7	6	-	3	2	-	4	3	4	7	3	8	3	-	-	-	-	-

	Thursday 07																					Fri
	3AM	4AM	6AM	6AM	8AM	8AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	1PM	3PM	3PM	4PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	10PM	1AM
Best forecast wave conditions in District-of-Columbia	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	Georgica (East Hampton) Long Island NY	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Atlantic Terrace Long Island NY	Georgica Pond Long Island NY	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Coastal Bend Area Texas	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island
Rating	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	1	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.9 SSW	1.7 S	1.3 ENE	0.6 ESE	1.8 S	1.2 S	2.2 S	2.1 S	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	0.8 SSE	1.7 SSE	1.0 S	1.2 S	1.4 SSE	1.0 SE	1.3 SE	1.3 SW	1.3 SE	1.3 SE	1.2 E	1.3 SE
Period(s)	7	7	8	6	6	6	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	7	6	7	7	8	7	7	7	7
Energy	629	306	203	50	281	98	453	447	233	233	54	239	104	156	182	185	163	386	167	171	138	152
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	off	on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- on	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)											12:08PM 0.86
Low Tide / height (m)						7:12AM 0.14										6:51PM 0.62	7:11PM 0.29
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	light rain	clear	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	clear	clear	light rain	cloudy	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	1	-	-	1	-	1	1	7	2	-	2	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	12	11	19	23	9	21	10	10	9	9	11	12	13	14	10	10	10	10	10	9	23	8
Chill °C (?)	11	8	19	23	6	21	6	6	7	7	9	9	11	13	7	8	8	8	9	9	23	7
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:19	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.5 S	1.7 S	1.3 ENE	0.6 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	0.5 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	0.8 SSE	0.1 SE	1.0 S	1.2 S	0.5 ESE	1.0 SE	0.1 E	1.4 SSE	0.1 E	1.3 SE	0.1 S	1.3 SE
Period (s)	7	7	8	6	9	-	7	7	6	6	6	10	7	7	8	7	15	7	15	7	6	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 E	0.2 SSE	0.4 SE	0.1 SE	-	0.1 SE	0.1 S	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.4 NNE	0.1 E	-	0.2 ESE	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.1 E	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 E	0.2 S	0.1 E
Period (s)	-	9	5	5	11	-	14	15	11	11	4	14	-	9	15	12	15	12	15	15	7	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.9 SSW	0.3 NW	-	0.6 S	1.8 S	1.2 S	2.2 S	2.1 S	1.4 SSW	1.4 SSW	-	1.7 SSE	-	-	1.4 SSE	0.9 SSW	1.3 SE	1.3 SW	1.3 SE	-	1.2 E	-
Period (s)	7	2	-	4	6	6	7	7	7	7	-	6	-	-	6	7	7	8	7	-	7	-

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