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

	Fri	Saturday 21			Sunday 22			Mon				Tue		Wed				Thursday 26			Fri
	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	Night	PM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Beauregard Carolina North	Jensen Beach Florida - South	Egg Island Eleuthera	Indicas Great Abaco	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Long Beach Carolina North	Nantasket Beach Massachusetts	The Wall New Hampshire	Alabama Point Alabama	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Union Bay Lake Superior	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Fort Fisher Carolina North	Alabama Point Alabama	St Augustine Beach Pier Florida - North	Beauregard Carolina North	Alabama Point Alabama	St Augustine Beach Pier Florida - North	Alabama Point Alabama
Rating	2	1	2	2	2	2	1	2	3	2	0	1	1	2	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	0
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.3 ENE	0.8 ESE	1.7 ENE	1.8 NE	1.1 NE	1.5 NNW	0.7 E	1.1 SW	1.6 NE	1.8 ENE	0.3 SW	1.6 ENE	0.6 ENE	1.6 ENE	1.4 SSW	0.8 ESE	0.4 SE	1.1 E	0.7 ESE	0.3 SE	0.7 E	0.1 SE
Period(s) (?)	9	9	10	10	9	8	9	6	7	8	3	7	6	6	8	6	5	8	7	4	8	4
Energy(?)	249	110	555	605	292	289	78	109	289	703	2	207	50	194	239	55	8	159	43	3	61	2
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross	glass	cross- off	off	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	9:20PM 1.16	9:44AM 1.35		1:40AM 3.23	10:47AM 0.95		11:34PM 1.27	11:52AM 0.92		12:41AM 1.75	12:49PM 0.87		1:32AM 1.04	1:51PM 0.70	2:01PM 0.63	2:38AM 1.01		1:58PM 1.30	3:22AM 0.96		4:15PM 0.86	4:35AM 1.01
Low Tide / height (m)	3:42AM -0.15		4:34PM -0.23			4:55PM -0.13		6:00AM 0.02	5:22PM -0.12	6:23PM 0.31	7:04AM 0.06	7:01PM -0.08		8:12AM 0.18	7:58PM 0.11		9:18AM 0.19		8:09PM 0.13	10:19AM 0.10		10:07PM 0.07
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	some clouds	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	mod. snow	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	20	18	20	21	20	-2	24	22	1	1	21	9	5	0	3	19	20	23	20	20	26	24
Low °C	18	14	20	20	20	-3	18	19	1	-1	19	8	2	-2	3	17	19	22	19	19	24	23
Chill °C (?)	20	18	20	21	20	-9	24	22	-4	-2	21	6	3	-6	-3	19	20	23	20	20	26	24
Sunrise	-	7:13	-	-	7:09	-	-	7:11	-	-	-	-	-	7:52	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:31	-	-	7:15	-	-	6:58	-	-	7:21	-	-	7:35	-	-	7:38	-	-	7:39	7:05
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.3 ENE	0.8 ESE	1.7 ENE	1.8 NE	1.1 NE	0.3 SE	0.7 E	0.4 SE	0.3 ESE	1.5 ENE	-	0.1 S	0.6 ENE	-	0.2 E	0.8 ESE	0.4 SE	1.1 E	0.7 ESE	0.3 SE	0.7 E	0.1 SE
Period (s)	9	9	10	10	9	7	9	9	10	8	-	6	6	-	10	6	5	8	7	4	8	4
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 N	0.7 E	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.5 SE	-	-	0.3 ENE	-	0.1 S	0.2 E	0.1 S	0.3 ENE	0.1 E	0.1 S	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	9	10	9	12	-	-	-	10	-	-	10	-	14	11	6	11	11	6	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.7 SW	-	0.3 NNE	-	1.5 NNW	0.4 SSW	1.1 SW	1.6 NE	1.8 ENE	0.3 SW	1.6 ENE	-	1.6 ENE	1.4 SSW	-	-	-	0.8 SSW	-	0.3 ESE	0.3 SSE
Period (s)	-	5	-	10	-	8	3	6	7	8	3	7	-	6	8	-	-	-	4	-	2	3

	Friday 20			Saturday 21								Sunday 22								Monday 23
	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	9PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	9PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Hatteras Light House Carolina North	Fort Fisher Carolina North	Hunting Island Carolina South	Higgins Beach Maine	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Beauregard Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Jensen Beach Florida - South	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Egg Island Eleuthera	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Chicahauk Carolina North
Rating	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 ESE	0.9 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.7 S	1.9 SSW	1.3 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.7 ESE	1.5 SSE	1.2 E	1.5 ENE	1.4 NE	1.2 NE	1.4 NE	1.0 NE	1.0 NE	1.2 NNW	1.2 SSW	0.7 E	0.6 E	0.5 E
Period(s) (?)	9	9	9	7	7	10	10	10	9	7	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	8	6	9	9	9
Energy(?)	188	141	156	563	634	283	276	276	84	243	279	412	374	331	408	243	234	235	229	78	57	56
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	off	glass	glass	glass	glass	glass	cross- off	glass	off	off	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	high	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)			9:57PM 2.23	12:57AM 3.19			10:12AM 1.04				10:41PM 1.29									11:34PM 1.27
Low Tide / height (m)	2:58PM -0.17				3:20AM -0.13				3:48PM -0.19					5:04AM 0.10			4:53PM 0.04					5:36AM -0.06
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	heavy rain	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	14	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	14	16	3	7	17	18	21	24	0	20	20	20	20	21	21	21	-6	9	20	18	18
Chill °C (?)	14	13	15	1	4	17	18	21	24	-6	20	20	20	20	21	21	21	-11	9	20	18	17
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:24	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:01
Sunset	7:13	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:19	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 ESE	0.9 ESE	0.9 ESE	1.4 SSE	1.6 S	1.3 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.7 ESE	1.5 SSE	1.2 E	1.5 ENE	1.4 NE	1.2 NE	1.4 NE	1.0 NE	1.0 NE	0.4 SE	1.0 S	0.7 E	0.6 E	0.5 E
Period (s)	9	9	9	7	7	10	10	10	9	7	10	10	9	9	9	9	9	12	6	9	9	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	-	-	0.8 ESE	0.5 ESE	-	-	-	-	0.4 E	-	0.1 E	0.6 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.7 E	0.2 SSE	0.6 SE	-	-	0.3 SSE
Period (s)	14	-	-	9	9	-	-	-	-	7	-	9	9	9	9	9	9	8	8	-	-	8
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	1.7 S	1.9 SSW	-	-	-	0.4 SSW	0.6 NNW	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.2 NNW	1.2 SSW	0.4 SSW	-	0.6 SW
Period (s)	-	-	-	7	7	-	-	-	5	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8	6	3	-	4

	Friday 20									Saturday 21
	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	1AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	9AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina	Hatteras Light House Carolina North	Fort Fisher Carolina North	Hunting Island Carolina South	Higgins Beach Maine	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Beauregard Carolina North	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Jensen Beach Florida - South	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Egg Island Eleuthera	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Cupsogue Long Island NY	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Cocoa Beach Pier Florida - North	Chicahauk Carolina North
Rating	1	1	1	3	3	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	1.1 ESE	1.0 E	0.9 ESE	0.6 SE	1.4 S	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	0.9 ESE	0.8 SSE	1.3 ENE	1.8 NE	2.0 NE	2.0 NE	2.3 NNE	1.9 NE	1.8 NE	0.8 ESE	1.3 S	1.3 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.8 E
Period(s) (?)	9	9	9	8	6	9	9	9	9	10	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	10	10	9
Energy(?)	192	176	232	66	123	261	261	247	141	212	254	426	765	779	980	759	698	68	167	289	276	104
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)								9:53PM 1.27													10:12AM 1.04
Low Tide / height (m)	2:58PM -0.17	3:08PM -0.18													4:16AM 0.08
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	light rain	cloudy	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	clear	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	14	16	5	7	20	19	19	14	1	18	20	21	21	21	21	21	0	8	17	18	15
Chill °C (?)	14	13	15	1	2	20	19	19	13	-4	18	20	21	21	21	21	21	-6	5	17	18	14
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:53	7:02	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.1 ESE	1.0 E	0.9 ESE	0.6 SE	0.6 ESE	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	1.3 ENE	0.9 ESE	0.8 ESE	1.3 ENE	0.1 SE	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	0.9 E	1.8 NE	0.8 ESE	1.3 S	1.3 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.8 E
Period (s)	9	9	9	8	8	9	9	9	9	8	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	7	7	10	10	9
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 E	-	0.8 ESE	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	-	0.8 SSE	0.1 E	-	0.1 NE	0.1 NE	-	0.1 NE	0.8 E	0.3 SE	0.6 ESE	-	-	0.3 S
Period (s)	14	-	9	-	-	15	15	15	-	10	15	-	15	15	-	15	9	9	9	-	-	4
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.8 SSE	1.4 S	-	-	-	0.4 SSW	0.6 S	-	1.8 NE	2.0 NE	2.0 NE	2.3 NNE	1.9 NE	-	0.9 SSE	-	-	-	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	6	-	-	-	3	4	-	8	9	9	9	9	-	4	-	-	-	3

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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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