North-Carolina Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

North-Carolina 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 North-Carolina region.

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North-Carolina Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wednesday 29			Thursday 30			Friday 01			Saturday 02			Sunday 03			Mon				Tue		Wed
	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	PM	Night	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Madaket Massachusetts	Chicahauk Carolina North	Madaket Massachusetts	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	The Wall New Hampshire	Higgins Beach Maine	The Wall New Hampshire	Michaud Point Cape Breton Island	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Bogue Pier Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Alabama Point Alabama	Alabama Point Alabama	Higgins Beach Maine	Assateague Maryland	Egg Island Eleuthera
Rating	2	2	4	3	2	2	2	2	2	3	2	2	1	1	2	1	1	0	0	2	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.4 ESE	1.3 ENE	1.7 ESE	2.0 ESE	2.0 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.5 ESE	1.3 ESE	1.3 ESE	2.2 SE	1.6 ESE	1.3 E	0.5 E	0.6 E	0.8 E	0.9 ESE	0.8 ESE	0.3 S	0.3 SSE	1.0 SSE	0.4 ENE	1.0 NNE
Period(s)	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	9	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	8	7	6	6	9	8
Energy	402	321	1152	756	703	441	343	267	243	666	423	299	59	89	122	140	104	8	9	89	54	136
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	off	cross	cross- on	on	glass	off	cross- off	on	off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)		7:09PM 1.15		7:24AM 1.03	7:56PM 1.55	8:07PM 0.93	12:43PM 0.69		8:18PM 1.23	8:38AM 0.89		9:16PM 0.98			1:10AM 2.91	1:49PM 2.57		1:46AM 2.85		2:28PM 2.49	2:25AM 2.79
Low Tide / height (m)	12:43PM 0.04		1:27AM 0.00	1:22PM 0.04		2:33AM 0.16	5:57AM 0.00	2:05PM 0.13	2:47AM 0.03		2:43PM 0.07	3:24AM 0.10	7:16AM 0.01	3:19PM 0.11		7:35AM 0.06	7:37PM 0.44		8:13AM 0.13		8:14PM 0.50	8:52AM 0.21
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	cloudy	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	mod. rain	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	8	3	-	-	1	-	7	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	7	17	10	8	8	8	12	10	10	4	13	6	14	14	6	9	9	20	21	12	18	25
Low °C	6	16	9	8	8	8	8	10	4	4	13	5	10	13	3	7	9	20	19	12	17	24
Chill °C (?)	3	16	7	5	6	7	11	10	7	0	11	4	13	13	3	7	7	20	21	8	17	25
Sunrise	5:41	-	-	5:35	-	-	5:37	-	-	5:48	-	-	6:16	-	-	5:43	-	-	-	-	-	6:26
Sunset	-	7:47	-	-	7:40	-	-	7:42	-	-	8:22	-	-	7:52	-	-	8:14	7:29	-	7:46	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.4 ESE	1.3 ENE	1.6 ESE	-	2.0 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.5 ESE	1.3 ESE	1.3 ESE	0.1 SW	1.6 ESE	1.3 E	0.5 E	0.6 E	0.8 E	0.9 ESE	0.8 ESE	0.3 S	0.3 SSE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ENE	1.0 NNE
Period (s)	10	10	10	-	10	9	9	9	9	8	9	8	9	9	9	9	8	7	6	8	9	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SE	-	-	0.1 S	-	-	0.8 SE	0.4 SSW	0.5 SE	0.4 ESE	0.2 N	0.2 N	-	-	-	0.1 SE	0.1 N
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	12	-	-	6	-	-	8	6	8	8	6	6	-	-	-	9	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 NNE	0.1 SE	1.7 ESE	2.0 ESE	-	-	0.3 WNW	-	0.3 W	2.2 SE	0.5 S	-	0.4 NE	-	0.3 SSW	-	-	-	-	1.0 SSE	0.8 S	1.1 E
Period (s)	4	6	10	10	-	-	3	-	3	8	6	-	3	-	3	-	-	-	-	6	4	5

	Tue	Wednesday 29								Thursday 30								Friday 01
	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Egg Island Eleuthera	Madaket Massachusetts	Egg Island Eleuthera	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Jensen Beach Florida - South	Madaket Massachusetts	Assateague Maryland	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine
Rating	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.2 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.0 ENE	1.0 ENE	0.5 E	1.0 N	1.5 ESE	1.1 NNE	1.0 E	1.2 ENE	1.0 E	1.1 NE	1.7 ESE	1.1 E	2.0 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.6 ESE	1.4 ESE	1.4 ESE	1.3 ESE
Period(s)	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	11	10	10	10	11	10	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Energy	279	391	215	215	58	266	399	421	201	280	253	252	1034	277	703	559	526	441	381	324	311	273
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	glass	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	glass
Tide State	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-flow	low	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)				6:43AM 1.03				7:28PM 0.91				7:28AM 0.93						11:26PM 2.99				11:58AM 2.75
Low Tide / height (m)		12:56AM 0.05				12:54PM 0.14	4:47PM 0.05			1:39AM 0.02				1:27PM 0.02		5:15PM 0.20				5:45AM -0.05
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	cloudy	clear	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	13	13	13	14	17	24	9	24	17	17	15	22	10	18	8	8	8	8	8	8	8	10
Chill °C (?)	12	12	12	13	17	24	7	24	16	16	14	22	10	18	8	7	6	6	7	6	6	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	6:11	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:33	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:35	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:40	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.2 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.0 ENE	1.0 ENE	0.5 E	1.0 N	1.5 ESE	1.1 NNE	1.0 E	1.2 ENE	1.0 E	1.1 NE	1.7 ESE	1.1 E	2.0 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.7 ESE	1.6 ESE	1.4 ESE	1.4 ESE	1.3 ESE
Period (s)	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	11	10	10	10	11	10	11	10	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	0.2 ESE	0.6 NNE	-	0.7 N	0.1 SE	0.4 S	0.8 SSE	0.4 SSE	-	0.4 SSE	-	-	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	0.1 SE	-	-
Period (s)	-	7	6	6	6	12	-	11	6	4	5	4	-	4	-	-	12	12	-	12	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 E	-	-	0.6 SSE	-	0.9 S	0.3 W	1.5 ESE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	4	-	5	3	10	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

	Tuesday 28	Wednesday 29
	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Egg Island Eleuthera	Madaket Massachusetts	Egg Island Eleuthera	Corolla Lighthouse Carolina North	Chicahauk Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Jensen Beach Florida - South	Madaket Massachusetts	Assateague Maryland	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine	Higgins Beach Maine
Rating	2	2	2	2	1	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	2	3	3	3	2	2	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction	1.3 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.5 E	1.0 N	1.7 E	1.1 N	1.0 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.1 E	1.2 NE	1.5 E	1.1 E	2.0 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE
Period(s)	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Energy	333	471	279	274	62	266	613	310	215	332	230	242	477	231	746	665	665	665	665	665	590	590
Wind (km/h)
Wind State	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)											6:32AM 1.06				10:33AM 2.80
Low Tide / height (m)					12:47AM 0.05																4:35PM 0.15
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	13	12	13	13	19	24	7	23	13	14	12	24	7	12	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5
Chill °C (?)	11	10	12	12	19	24	3	23	12	13	11	24	3	10	2	1	2	2	1	2	2	2
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 ENE	1.5 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.5 E	1.0 N	1.7 E	1.1 N	1.0 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.1 E	1.2 NE	1.5 E	1.1 E	2.0 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.9 ESE	1.8 ESE	1.8 ESE
Period (s)	10	10	10	10	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	0.1 SE	-	-	0.2 ESE	0.5 NE	-	0.5 NE	0.1 SE	0.1 SE	-	0.1 E	-	0.1 S	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	6	-	-	6	12	-	12	6	6	-	6	-	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	0.2 WSW	0.3 E	-	0.3 E	-	-	-	-	0.9 NNE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	3	3	-	3	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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Delaware	Massachusetts	Nova-Scotia
Iceland	New-Hampshire	Pennsylvania
Maine	New-Jersey	Rhode-Island
Maryland	New-York

British-Columbia	Minnesota	Washington
California	Oregon

Anguilla	Grenada	Puerto Rico
Aruba	Guadeloupe	Saint Kitts and Nevis
Barbados	Haiti	Saint Lucia
Bermuda	Martinique	Trinidad and Tobago
British Virgin Islands	Montserrat	US Virgin Islands
Dominican Republic	Netherlands Antilles	Venezuela

Alabama	Georgia-USA	Nicaragua
Belize	Guatemala	Panama
Costa Rica	Honduras	Texas
El Salvador	Louisiana
Florida	Mexico

Alabama	Lake Huron Canada	New Jersey
Bermuda	Lake Huron United States	North Carolina
Cape Breton Island	Lake Michigan	North Florida
Delaware	Lake Ontario Canada	Nova Scotia
Eleuthera Bahamas	Lake Ontario United States	Rhode Island
Florida	Long Island New York	South Carolina
Georgia	Louisiana	South Florida
Great Abaco Bahamas	Maine	Texas
Gulf Coast Florida	Maryland	Turks and Caicos Islands
Lake Erie Canada	Massachusetts	US East Coast
Lake Erie United States	New Hampshire	Virginia

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