
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.
North-Carolina Wavefinder
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Best forecast wave conditions in North-Carolina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Wave Height (m) & direction (?) | 0.6 ESE | 0.7 SE | 1.5 N | 1.4 NNW | 0.8 ESE | 1.1 NNW | 0.8 E | 0.8 SSE | 0.6 ESE | 1.3 SW | 2.2 SSW | 0.5 SE | 0.5 SE | - | 0.5 E | 1.9 NW | 1.0 SSW | 1.2 SE | 1.6 SE | 0.3 SE | 0.9 ESE | 1.6 SSE |
| Period(s) (?) | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 9 | 10 | 9 | - | 4 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 8 |
| Energy(?) | 90 | 115 | 368 | 326 | 43 | 191 | 104 | 80 | 32 | 175 | 1187 | 85 | 54 | 0 | 10 | 394 | 238 | 109 | 213 | 11 | 39 | 315 |
| Wind (km/h) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wind State(?) | off | cross- off | cross- on | cross- off | cross- on | off | off | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | cross- off | off | off | cross- off | cross- off | cross | cross- off | cross- on | cross | cross- off | cross- off | cross- on |
Summary | light snow | snow shwrs | clear | clear | rain shwrs | some clouds | risk thund- der | some clouds | light rain | clear | clear | some clouds | some clouds | clear | some clouds | some clouds | some clouds | cloudy | some clouds | cloudy | some clouds | cloudy |
Rain (mm) | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
High °C | 2 | 2 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 12 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 1 | 2 | 15 | 17 | -1 | 14 | 22 |
Low °C | 2 | 2 | 19 | 18 | 21 | 19 | 25 | 20 | 20 | 9 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 0 | 1 | 15 | 15 | -1 | 13 | 21 |
Chill °C (?) | 0 | -2 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 19 | 25 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 10 | 7 | 1 | 7 | 10 | -5 | -4 | 14 | 16 | -9 | 12 | 22 |
Sunrise | 7:24 | - | - | 6:56 | 6:58 | - | - | 6:50 | - | - | - | - | 7:20 | 6:26 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Sunset | - | 4:37 | - | - | - | - | - | - | 5:02 | - | 4:42 | - | - | - | 4:49 | - | 4:40 | 4:49 | - | 4:15 | 5:02 | - |
| Swell1 (m) & direction | 0.6 ESE | 0.7 SE | 1.5 N | 1.4 NNW | 0.2 ESE | 1.1 NNW | 0.6 NNE | 0.8 SSE | 0.6 ESE | 0.4 SE | 1.8 S | 0.6 SSE | 0.5 SE | - | 0.2 E | - | 1.0 SSW | - | - | 0.3 SE | - | - |
| Period (s) | 9 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 9 | - | 4 | - | 10 | - | - | 8 | - | - |
| Swell2 (m) & direction | 0.4 SSW | 0.6 SSW | 0.6 W | 0.6 E | 0.1 E | 0.5 E | 0.3 ENE | 0.3 E | 0.1 E | 0.5 SE | - | 0.5 SE | 0.2 SSE | - | - | - | 0.2 SSE | - | - | - | - | - |
| Period (s) | 8 | 8 | 7 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 9 | 11 | 7 | - | 10 | 12 | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wind waves (m) & direction | - | 0.3 N | 1.1 N | - | 0.8 ESE | - | 0.8 E | 0.4 SW | 1.3 SSW | 1.3 SW | 2.2 SSW | 0.3 WSW | 0.3 SSW | 0.7 NE | 0.5 E | 1.9 NW | 0.8 W | 1.2 SE | 1.6 SE | 1.7 NNW | 0.9 ESE | 1.6 SSE |
| Period (s) | - | 2 | 7 | - | 5 | - | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 8 |
List of all animated swell maps
Important: JavaScript support must be turned on in order to use these animated swell maps. Alternatively, visit our basic swell maps of North-Carolina where each view becomes a separate image.

