Michigan Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Michigan 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 Michigan region.

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Michigan Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Sat		Sun				Monday 27			Tue		Wednesday 29			Thu				Fri		Sat
	PM	Night	AM	AM	PM	Night	PM	PM	Night	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Michigan	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Jones Beach State Park Long Island NY	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Hatteras Light House Carolina North	Kitty Hawk Pier Carolina North	Fernandina Beach Pier Florida - North	Sauble Beach Lake Huron	2nd Beach Rhode Island	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Sauble Beach Lake Huron	Nauset Beach Massachusetts	Alabama Point Alabama	Higgins Beach Maine	Nantasket Beach Massachusetts	Nantasket Beach Massachusetts	Assateague Maryland
Rating	3	3	3	0	0	0	3	0	0	2	2	1	1	1	1	1	2	0	3	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.8 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.1 SE	1.5 ESE	0.6 SE	0.4 SE	1.2 E	1.5 ENE	0.3 ENE	0.7 NW	0.5 SE	1.4 SE	0.8 NW	1.7 E	0.3 S	2.3 ESE	1.3 E	1.2 E	0.5 E
Period(s)	15	14	13	5	5	4	9	3	4	11	10	12	5	9	7	5	9	5	10	9	9	9
Energy	811	679	627	6	3	2	315	8	6	346	460	44	23	67	200	32	440	4	963	288	256	44
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	glass	cross- on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		3:32PM 6:55PM 0.20 0.21	8:19AM 1.81	5:52PM 1.54		6:27AM 0.78		6:52PM 0.85	7:17AM 0.77		7:38PM 0.89	8:01AM 0.77	9:44AM 0.23		11:16PM 0.09	10:09AM 0.26			8:52AM 0.28	n/a n/a	8:59AM 0.91
Low Tide / height (m)		5:02PM 0.20			12:15AM 0.05		12:34PM 0.05	1:10AM 0.02		1:19PM 0.03	1:58AM 0.01			6:35PM 0.01	11:40PM 0.09			7:02PM -0.01		n/a n/a		2:37PM 0.10
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	rain shwrs	clear	clear	cloudy	risk thund- der	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	light rain	light rain	cloudy	light rain	clear	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	some clouds
Rain (mm)	1	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	1	-	3	-	4	-	-	2	-	-
High °C	19	17	17	25	25	24	14	23	23	14	15	24	7	7	9	8	10	23	8	8	8	15
Low °C	18	17	17	24	24	23	14	23	22	13	12	20	7	7	8	7	9	18	8	7	7	14
Chill °C (?)	19	16	17	25	25	24	13	23	23	13	14	24	4	4	8	4	7	23	5	5	6	14
Sunrise	-	-	6:37	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	5:43	-	-	-	-	-	5:37	-
Sunset	7:54	-	-	-	7:23	-	7:45	7:24	-	7:45	-	-	8:25	-	-	8:28	-	-	7:42	-	-	7:52
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.6 WNW	1.4 NNE	1.4 NNE	0.3 SSE	0.2 SSE	0.1 SE	1.5 ESE	0.1 S	0.4 SE	1.2 E	1.5 ENE	0.3 ENE	-	0.5 SE	-	-	1.7 E	0.3 S	2.3 ESE	1.3 E	1.2 E	0.5 E
Period (s)	8	8	8	5	5	4	9	5	4	11	10	6	-	9	-	-	9	5	10	9	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	1.3 NNE	1.0 W	0.9 NE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	0.2 SSE	0.3 ENE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4 NE	0.1 S
Period (s)	9	7	13	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6	12	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.2 WSW	0.3 SW	0.2 SSW	-	0.6 SE	0.2 SSW	-	0.2 S	0.4 SSE	0.7 NW	0.7 SE	1.4 SE	0.8 NW	-	-	-	0.3 SSW	0.3 SW	0.3 W
Period (s)	-	-	-	3	2	3	-	3	5	-	7	4	5	5	7	5	-	-	-	2	2	3

	Saturday 25				Sunday 26									Monday 27								Tue
	10AM	1PM	5PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	8PM	11PM	2AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Michigan	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Nauset Beach Massachusetts	White Point Beach Nova Scotia	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Union Bay Lake Superior	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Jones Beach State Park Long Island NY
Rating	0	0	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.3 ENE	0.8 E	0.9 NE	1.0 NE	1.6 NNE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.8 NE	0.8 NE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.2 SSW	-	-	0.4 ESE	0.6 SE	1.9 E	0.8 ESE	1.7 ESE
Period(s)	6	6	14	13	14	14	8	13	13	13	13	13	4	4	3	-	-	3	3	7	10	10
Energy	13	22	54	214	679	783	707	627	557	524	465	415	3	2	2	0	0	4	8	321	130	574
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	on	on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	cross- on	glass	glass	cross	cross- on	on	on	off	off	cross- off
Tide State	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	-	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)							5:30AM 0.78				5:59PM 0.81		8:07PM 0.17				8:51AM 0.16			n/a n/a
Low Tide / height (m)					11:11PM 0.07				11:45AM 0.06							4:12AM 0.09				n/a n/a		11:40PM 0.10
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	risk thund- der	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
Temp. °C	21	22	5	7	17	17	17	17	17	18	19	19	24	24	23	23	23	23	23	13	6	10
Chill °C (?)	21	22	3	5	17	17	17	17	16	18	19	19	24	24	23	23	23	23	23	12	2	8
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:37	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	9:01	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.5 SSE	0.4 NE	0.8 E	1.4 NNE	1.5 NNE	1.6 NNE	1.4 NNE	1.2 N	1.1 N	0.9 N	0.9 NNE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.2 SSW	-	-	-	0.1 S	-	0.8 ESE	1.7 ESE
Period (s)	6	6	5	13	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	4	4	3	-	-	-	5	-	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.3 ENE	0.1 SW	1.0 W	1.0 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.8 NE	0.8 NE	0.1 S	-	0.1 SE	-	-	0.1 S	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	14	7	7	14	14	13	13	13	13	13	5	-	4	-	-	5	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.4 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 SE	0.2 SSW	0.2 SSW	-	-	-	0.4 ESE	0.6 SE	1.9 E	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	3	3	-	-	-	3	3	7	-	-

	Saturday 25	Sunday 26
	8AM	9AM	11AM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	4AM	5AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Michigan	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Nauset Beach Massachusetts	White Point Beach Nova Scotia	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Union Bay Lake Superior	2nd Beach Rhode Island	Jones Beach State Park Long Island NY
Rating	0	0	1	2	3	3	3	3	3	3	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	1	3
Wave Height (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.2 E	0.8 E	1.6 WNW	0.8 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.3 SSE	-	0.1 SE	1.4 ESE
Period(s)	6	6	15	13	8	15	15	15	15	15	15	14	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	-	13	5
Energy	13	13	28	227	822	811	854	872	821	816	767	740	14	13	8	8	8	8	6	0	11	112
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	glass	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)								4:59PM 0.77												n/a n/a	4:19AM 0.93
Low Tide / height (m)																				n/a n/a
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	risk thund- der	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	light rain
Rain (mm)	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
High °C	22	21	5	8	18	19	19	18	18	18	17	17	22	22	22	22	22	22	23	8	5	4
Chill °C (?)	22	21	1	5	18	19	19	18	18	18	16	16	22	22	22	22	22	22	23	7	5	-1
Sunrise	6:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.2 E	0.8 E	1.6 WNW	1.6 WNW	1.5 W	1.4 WNW	1.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	1.2 NNE	1.2 NNE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SSE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.3 SSE	-	0.2 S	0.1 S
Period (s)	6	6	15	13	8	8	8	8	8	8	9	9	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	-	6	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.2 E	0.2 SSW	1.2 NNE	1.3 NNE	1.3 NNE	1.3 NNE	1.2 NNE	1.2 NNE	1.2 W	1.2 W	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	-
Period (s)	-	-	6	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	13	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	0.4 NNE	0.5 N	-	-	-	0.5 NNW	0.5 NNW	0.5 NNW	0.5 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.4 ESE
Period (s)	-	-	4	3	-	-	-	6	6	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5

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