Iceland Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Iceland 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 Iceland region.

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	Thursday 18			Friday 19			Saturday 20			Sunday 21			Monday 22			Tuesday 23			Wednesday 24			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 Iceland	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Tregastel Plage Brittany - Cote d'Armor	Unstad (Lofoten) Lofoten and Arctic	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Lahinch Strand Clare	Machrihanish Scot - Kintyre	Eyvik North Coast	Eyvik North Coast	Bore South and West	Bore South and West	Grindavik Antenas Reykjanes Peninsula	Þorlákshöfn or Porlackshofn Reykjanes Peninsula	Garur Reykjanes Peninsula	Lahinch Strand Clare	Dunbar/Belhaven Bay Scot - East Coast	Barvas (Lewis) Scot - Outer Hebrides	Grindavik Lighthouse ( Hopsnesta) Reykjanes Peninsula	Barvas (Lewis) Scot - Outer Hebrides	Scarborough North Bay North East England	Llangennith Wales - Gower	Llangennith Wales - Gower
Rating	2	4	2	3	3	2	1	3	3	3	4	4	4	4	1	2	3	4	2	2	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 NNW	2.5 WSW	1.6 WNW	1.7 NNW	1.5 W	1.7 W	1.0 WNW	1.9 NNE	1.7 NNE	2.3 NW	2.2 NW	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.2 WNW	1.6 NNE	0.9 WNW	2.5 SSW	1.1 W	2.5 NNE	0.5 W	0.5 W
Period(s) (?)	9	7	10	9	7	10	10	12	12	9	10	9	12	12	10	7	13	11	11	9	10	10
Energy(?)	421	852	510	818	404	545	355	1010	764	827	947	327	626	1072	15	276	586	1604	421	950	52	47
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	on	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)	9:51AM 1.36	4:14PM 2.83		5:01AM 3.16		4:52AM 3.91	11:16AM 1.50		7:31PM 4.77	11:49AM 1.56	7:29PM 7.36			7:00PM 3.60		10:18AM 4.81		8:05PM 8.36	7:14AM 4.25
Low Tide / height (m)			11:01PM 0.50	10:55AM 0.81	4:41PM 0.39	10:27PM 0.45	5:11AM 0.12	1:32PM 1.25	1:59AM 0.73	5:47AM 0.06		12:17AM 0.27	8:06AM 0.03		1:08AM 0.07	4:06AM 1.13	1:53PM 0.45	2:10AM 0.45		1:12PM 0.35	10:00PM 0.31	6:34AM 0.29
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	light rain	rain shwrs	clear	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	3	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-
High °C	12	13	21	9	15	13	14	3	3	11	12	10	10	10	11	12	10	11	12	13	13	14
Low °C	12	12	17	9	13	12	12	3	2	10	10	10	9	10	10	11	10	11	10	11	13	13
Chill °C (?)	11	10	21	8	13	12	14	0	0	8	11	7	10	8	9	11	9	8	11	12	12	13
Sunrise	7:07	-	-	6:33	-	-	7:03	-	-	7:18	-	-	7:05	-	-	6:56	-	-	7:13	-	-	7:07
Sunset	-	7:32	-	-	7:22	-	-	7:20	-	-	7:42	-	-	7:32	-	-	7:23	-	-	6:55	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 NNW	0.8 N	1.6 WNW	1.7 NNW	1.1 N	1.7 W	1.0 WNW	1.9 NNE	1.7 NNE	0.1 S	-	1.3 WSW	1.3 WSW	2.0 WSW	0.2 WNW	-	0.9 WNW	2.5 SSW	1.1 W	-	0.5 W	0.5 W
Period (s)	9	9	10	9	9	10	10	12	12	5	-	7	9	12	10	-	13	11	11	-	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.0 N	0.5 NW	-	0.8 W	0.2 SSE	0.1 SW	0.1 NW	-	-	-	-	0.9 WSW	1.0 WSW	0.3 SSW	0.1 NW	-	0.7 NNW	-	0.9 NNE	-	0.2 N	-
Period (s)	9	12	-	14	7	16	11	-	-	-	-	9	12	15	5	-	8	-	8	-	3	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	2.5 WSW	-	-	1.5 W	-	1.1 NW	0.6 W	0.7 W	2.3 NW	2.2 NW	-	-	-	0.5 NE	1.6 NNE	1.3 NNE	-	-	2.5 NNE	0.3 NNE	-
Period (s)	-	7	-	-	7	-	8	4	5	9	10	-	-	-	3	7	8	-	-	9	3	-

	Thursday 18							Friday 19								Saturday 20
	5AM	6AM	10AM	1PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	1AM	4AM	8AM	11AM	1PM	5PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	6PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Iceland	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Grindavik Lighthouse ( Hopsnesta) Reykjanes Peninsula	Bundoran Donegal	Keel Mayo and Achill Island	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Ste Barbe Brittany - Morbihan	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Tregastel Plage Brittany - Cote d'Armor	Garrettstown Cork	Unstad (Lofoten) Lofoten and Arctic	Bundoran Donegal	Bundoran Donegal	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Llangennith Wales - Gower	Llangennith Wales - Gower	Lahinch Strand Clare	Lahinch Strand Clare	Machrihanish Scot - Kintyre	Eyvik North Coast
Rating	2	3	3	4	2	2	3	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 N	1.0 ESE	2.0 W	2.0 WSW	1.0 N	1.4 W	1.1 W	2.5 NNW	2.3 NNW	1.3 WSW	1.5 WNW	1.7 SW	1.6 NW	1.8 W	1.7 W	1.8 NNW	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 W	0.9 W	0.6 NW	1.9 NNE
Period(s) (?)	9	11	11	10	9	11	14	10	10	13	10	9	9	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	7	12
Energy(?)	564	551	917	1251	349	483	944	1281	1055	1051	391	538	794	684	566	852	247	223	205	137	69	1018
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass
Tide State(?)	low	high	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-ebb	high	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	high	low
High Tide / height (m)		3:51AM 2.38					9:52PM 1.51							5:19PM 3.38				6:10AM 7.39			2:03PM 0.75
Low Tide / height (m)	3:36AM 0.34			10:11AM 1.04	3:54PM 0.49			12:46AM 1.26				10:41AM 0.57								11:09AM 0.58		4:14PM 0.38
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	clear	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	clear	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
Temp. °C	13	5	13	13	13	17	13	12	12	13	20	12	10	14	12	11	16	16	13	12	14	3
Chill °C (?)	12	2	12	12	13	17	11	12	10	12	20	12	8	13	11	9	16	16	12	11	13	2
Sunrise	-	-	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:58	7:18	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	7:52	8:19	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	7:40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:20
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 N	1.0 ESE	2.0 W	2.0 WSW	1.0 N	1.4 W	1.1 N	2.5 NNW	2.3 NNW	1.5 N	1.5 WNW	1.7 SW	1.6 NW	0.2 NNW	1.7 W	1.0 W	1.2 WSW	1.1 WSW	1.1 W	0.9 W	0.6 NW	1.9 NNE
Period (s)	9	11	11	10	9	11	11	10	10	10	10	9	9	10	10	8	9	9	9	8	7	12
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 W	0.8 S	-	1.6 WNW	1.0 NNW	-	1.1 W	0.6 W	0.5 W	1.3 WSW	-	0.3 SSW	0.9 WSW	-	0.1 NW	0.7 W	0.1 SW	0.1 SW	0.1 NW	0.2 WNW	0.4 W	-
Period (s)	10	14	-	9	9	-	14	11	10	13	-	17	14	-	10	11	16	16	12	11	9	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.8 N	-	-	0.3 SSW	-	-	-	-	0.4 SW	-	-	-	1.8 W	-	1.8 NNW	-	-	0.5 NE	0.7 NE	0.7 E	-
Period (s)	-	5	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	10	-	10	-	-	3	4	3	-

	Thursday 18
	3AM	2AM	4AM	5AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	9AM	10AM	12PM	1PM	1PM	3PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	10PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Iceland	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Grindavik Lighthouse ( Hopsnesta) Reykjanes Peninsula	Bundoran Donegal	Keel Mayo and Achill Island	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Ste Barbe Brittany - Morbihan	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Alnes Lighthouse South and West	Tregastel Plage Brittany - Cote d'Armor	Garrettstown Cork	Unstad (Lofoten) Lofoten and Arctic	Bundoran Donegal	Bundoran Donegal	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Llangennith Wales - Gower	Llangennith Wales - Gower	Lahinch Strand Clare	Lahinch Strand Clare	Machrihanish Scot - Kintyre	Eyvik North Coast
Rating	2	3	3	4	2	2	3	4	4	3	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.7 N	1.0 ESE	3.0 W	4.0 W	1.3 NNW	1.8 W	1.2 NNW	5.0 WSW	5.0 WSW	1.2 NNW	1.9 WNW	2.3 SW	1.9 N	1.5 W	1.4 W	3.0 W	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	1.9 WSW	1.8 WSW	1.1 W	2.0 N
Period(s) (?)	9	10	12	11	10	12	10	9	9	9	12	7	10	10	10	8	7	7	9	10	10	9
Energy(?)	546	279	2254	4129	511	1005	461	3455	3455	450	983	513	809	448	385	1325	673	673	627	634	235	650
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross	cross	off	cross	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	on	on	cross	on
High Tide / height (m)				4:13AM 2.93
Low Tide / height (m)
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	6	13	13	13	17	12	14	14	13	21	17	10	13	13	13	17	17	17	17	17	3
Chill °C (?)	13	4	10	10	13	17	10	10	10	11	21	16	8	12	12	10	16	16	16	16	16	-2
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:25	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.7 N	1.0 ESE	-	0.3 N	1.3 NNW	1.8 W	1.2 NNW	0.6 N	0.6 N	1.2 NNW	1.9 WNW	0.2 SSW	1.9 N	1.5 W	1.4 W	0.7 N	1.2 WSW	1.2 WSW	1.9 WSW	0.4 WNW	1.1 W	-
Period (s)	9	10	-	9	10	12	10	10	10	9	12	16	10	10	10	10	11	11	9	8	10	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 W	0.5 NNW	-	0.2 N	1.0 N	-	1.0 N	-	-	1.0 N	-	0.1 S	0.5 N	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 SE	-	-	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	-
Period (s)	10	6	-	9	9	-	9	-	-	9	-	19	14	14	14	7	-	-	14	14	13	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 NE	3.0 W	4.0 W	-	-	-	5.0 WSW	5.0 WSW	-	-	2.3 SW	-	-	-	3.0 W	1.8 SW	1.8 SW	-	1.8 WSW	0.5 S	2.0 N
Period (s)	-	4	12	11	-	-	-	9	9	-	-	7	-	-	-	8	7	7	-	10	3	9

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Albania	France	Netherlands
Algeria	Germany	Norway
Belgium	Greece	Poland
Bulgaria	Ireland	Russia
Croatia	Israel	Sweden
Cyprus	Italy	Tunisia
Denmark	Latvia	Turkey
Estonia	Lebanon	Ukraine
Faroe Islands	Lithuania	United Kingdom
Finland	Malta

Delaware	Massachusetts	Nova-Scotia
Global-Atlantic	New-Hampshire	Pennsylvania
Global-Pacific	New-Jersey	Rhode-Island
Maine	New-York	South-Carolina
Maryland	North-Carolina	Virginia

Baltic Sea	Iceland	South Coast of England
Channel Islands	Iceland	Sweden
Deutschland	Ireland	Wales
Devon and Cornwall	North Sea
France	Norway

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