South Africa Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

South Africa 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 South Africa region.

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7 day 48 hour

	Wednesday 16			Thursday 17			Friday 18			Saturday 19			Sunday 20			Monday 21			Tuesday 22			Wed
	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 South Africa	Pearly Beach Overberg	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Bettys Bay Overberg	Dolphin Point Overberg	Black Rocks Cape Town	Barbel Point Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Boneyards Cape Town	Boneyards Cape Town	Bali Bay (Glen Reef) Cape Town	Doughnuts Backreef Eastern Cape (S)	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Bali Bay (Glen Reef) Cape Town	Bettys Bay Overberg	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Off The Wall Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Amanzimtoti Durban/KZN South	Banana Beach Durban/KZN South	Zinkwazi KZN North	Cape Vidal KZN North	Amanzimtoti Durban/KZN South
Rating	6	5	7	9	9	9	9	7	5	5	5	4	4	4	6	5	5	4	4	5	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	4.0 SW	1.1 SW	5.5 SW	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	2.2 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	2.1 SW	3.5 SW	2.5 SSW	2.4 S	3.0 S	3.0 S	1.9 S
Period(s) (?)	16	14	12	13	17	14	16	15	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	12	9	7	9	9	13	11
Energy(?)	3650	2667	2756	2467	9866	478	13251	9237	5497	4009	3195	1545	1188	1182	1150	1200	2383	717	856	1143	2531	888
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- on	on	off	cross	cross	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross
High Tide / height (m)		7:14PM 1.50		7:47AM 1.29		8:23PM 1.45	8:42AM 1.17		9:20PM 1.54	10:08AM 1.32		10:30PM 1.27	11:31AM 1.13		12:19AM 1.64	1:14PM 1.31		1:00AM 1.34	1:44PM 1.30	2:14PM 1.45	2:36AM 1.43
Low Tide / height (m)	12:47PM 0.26		1:43AM 0.53	1:52PM 0.32		2:49AM 0.43		2:52PM 0.64	4:04AM 0.61		3:59PM 0.51		5:14AM 0.39	5:53PM 0.67		7:02AM 0.44	7:16PM 0.46		7:32AM 0.24		8:21PM 0.36	8:22AM 0.16
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	rain shwrs	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	risk thund- der	light rain	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	10	2	-	-	-
High °C	15	16	14	15	15	18	13	13	12	14	21	16	15	16	14	15	16	20	17	18	20	18
Low °C	11	15	13	14	15	15	13	12	11	13	20	14	14	15	12	13	14	16	16	18	18	15
Chill °C (?)	14	15	12	14	13	18	12	12	10	12	21	16	15	16	13	14	14	20	17	18	20	18
Sunrise	7:46	-	-	7:37	-	-	7:48	-	-	7:18	-	-	7:46	-	-	7:28	-	-	6:50	-	-	6:47
Sunset	-	5:54	-	-	5:54	-	-	5:57	-	-	5:30	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:31	-	-	5:15	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	4.0 SW	1.1 ENE	5.5 SW	4.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	2.2 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	2.0 SW	1.1 SSW	0.6 E	0.9 ENE	0.8 E	2.3 S	0.9 S	1.9 S
Period (s)	16	14	12	13	17	10	16	15	14	14	14	13	12	12	12	15	10	8	11	8	15	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	0.2 E	0.5 E	-	1.1 SW	-	-	-	-	0.4 E	-	0.4 ESE	-	-	0.6 E	-	0.5 E	0.7 E	0.7 ESE	0.7 SE	0.7 SSE
Period (s)	-	-	12	11	-	14	-	-	-	-	11	-	8	-	-	11	-	12	11	10	10	15
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.9 NW	1.3 NNW	-	-	0.9 SW	-	-	-	1.4 ENE	1.2 E	0.5 S	-	-	0.9 W	2.1 SW	3.5 SW	2.5 SSW	2.4 S	3.0 S	3.0 S	-
Period (s)	-	4	5	-	-	5	-	-	-	5	6	4	-	-	5	12	9	7	9	9	13	-

	Tue	Wednesday 16								Thursday 17								Friday 18
	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 South Africa	Crayfish Factory Cape Town	Hell West Coast	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Bettys Bay Overberg	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Pearly Beach Overberg	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Bloubergstrand Cape Town	Pearly Beach Overberg	Platboom Cape Town	Bettys Bay Overberg	Dolphin Point Overberg	Dolphin Point Overberg	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Black Rocks Cape Town	Black Rocks Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Barbel Point Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Boneyards Cape Town
Rating	8	7	6	6	5	5	6	5	5	5	7	6	7	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9	9
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 SW	4.0 SW	4.5 SW	4.5 SW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	4.0 SW	5.0 SW
Period(s) (?)	17	17	16	17	16	16	14	14	13	12	13	13	14	13	18	17	13	16	16	16	16	15
Energy(?)	7251	6078	5105	4891	4295	3955	4186	3009	3017	3042	4624	5087	6107	4887	8581	10488	6207	11329	11188	12794	8929	10818
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	off	cross- off
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb
High Tide / height (m)				6:59AM 1.39				7:18PM 1.66				7:38AM 1.21					8:23PM 1.45				8:43AM 1.17
Low Tide / height (m)		12:44AM 0.27				1:06PM 0.22				1:43AM 0.53				1:45PM 0.44					2:36AM 0.35
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	light rain	clear	rain shwrs	rain shwrs	cloudy	clear	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	5	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	14	13	11	11	15	20	16	13	11	11	13	15	14	13	15	14	15	14	14	13	17	13
Chill °C (?)	12	13	9	10	13	20	14	11	9	8	11	13	12	11	13	13	14	12	12	11	16	12
Sunrise	-	-	-	7:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:48	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:50	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	3.5 SW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	3.0 SW	2.5 SW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.0 WSW	3.5 WSW	3.5 SW	3.0 SW	4.0 SW	0.5 E	2.1 SSW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	5.0 SW	3.0 SSW	5.0 SW
Period (s)	17	17	16	17	16	16	14	14	13	12	13	13	13	13	18	11	17	16	16	16	17	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.7 E	-	0.8 E	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.2 E	0.5 E	0.5 E	-	0.6 E	-	-	0.4 E	0.7 NE	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	11	-	11	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	11	11	-	11	-	-	11	10	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	1.3 NW	-	3.0 WSW	0.8 N	1.2 NNW	0.4 NNE	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 WSW	4.0 SW	1.5 WSW	4.5 SW	4.5 SW	-	-	-	4.0 SW	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	5	-	14	4	5	4	13	13	14	13	6	17	13	-	-	-	16	-

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Madagascar	Mozambique	Reunion
Mauritius	Namibia	Seychelles

Cape Town	KwaZulu Natal North Coast	South Africa
Durban KwaZulu Natal	Madagascar West	Swakopmund Namibia
Eastern Cape South	Mozambique	West Coast South Africa
Garden Route	Namibia	Wild Coast
Inhambane	Overberg

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