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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South Africa Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wed		Thursday 05			Friday 06			Saturday 07			Sunday 08			Monday 09			Tuesday 10			Wed
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Africa	Beach Road Cape Town	Boneyards Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Addington (South Beach) Durban/KZN South	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Alkantstrand KZN North	Beach Road Cape Town	Brak River Garden Route	Albatross Eastern Cape (S)	Beach Road Cape Town	Keurbooms Garden Route	Keurbooms Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Barbel Point Eastern Cape - Wild Coast	Albatross Eastern Cape (S)	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Beach Road Cape Town	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Fence (Port Elizabeth) Eastern Cape (S)
Rating	2	2	2	3	2	1	2	2	2	2	3	3	3	4	3	4	2	3	3	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	1.9 ENE	0.9 SSW	1.4 NE	1.1 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SW	1.2 SW	1.2 SW	1.6 SW	1.3 SW	1.4 SW	1.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	2.0 SSW	1.1 SSW	1.5 ESE	0.9 SSW	1.0 SW	0.7 SSW
Period(s) (?)	11	11	11	7	11	6	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	11	10	9	10	9	8	12	12	12
Energy(?)	317	250	340	387	272	255	300	241	370	340	370	578	462	462	724	313	722	439	557	320	405	184
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- off	on	on	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- on	on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on	glass	cross- off	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)	5:04PM 1.47		5:23AM 1.59	5:37PM 1.39		5:55AM 1.50	6:22PM 1.82		6:26AM 1.39	6:49PM 1.30		7:08AM 1.54	7:13PM 1.55		7:44AM 1.19	7:51PM 1.04		8:50AM 1.08		9:27PM 0.97	10:40AM 0.98
Low Tide / height (m)		11:09PM 0.09	11:39AM 0.15		11:40PM 0.18	12:12PM 0.24		12:30AM 0.37	12:44PM 0.35		12:48AM 0.40	1:16PM 0.47		1:21AM 0.64			1:52AM 0.71		2:31PM 0.79	3:20AM 0.82		5:54PM 0.61
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	clear	rain shwrs	clear	clear	some clouds	mod. rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	rain shwrs	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	-	6	-	2	2	1	2	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	27	22	27	28	23	31	25	22	27	20	22	20	20	19	22	23	21	23	23	21	25	24
Low °C	26	21	23	28	21	25	24	21	21	20	20	20	20	18	20	22	20	20	23	19	22	24
Chill °C (?)	27	22	27	28	23	31	25	22	27	20	22	20	20	19	22	23	21	23	23	21	25	24
Sunrise	-	-	5:52	-	-	5:24	-	-	5:46	-	-	5:54	-	-	5:56	-	-	5:58	-	-	5:58	-
Sunset	7:49	-	-	6:51	-	-	7:46	-	-	7:45	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:02	-	-	7:25	-	-	7:14
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.4 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.0 ENE	1.1 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SW	1.2 SW	1.2 SW	0.7 E	1.3 SW	1.4 SW	1.8 SSW	1.0 SSW	2.0 SSW	1.2 SE	1.1 SSW	0.9 SSW	1.1 SE	0.7 E
Period (s)	11	11	11	11	11	6	11	11	11	10	10	7	10	11	10	9	10	8	9	12	7	5
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.7 ESE	0.4 SE	0.7 SSW	0.4 E	0.2 WNW	0.5 E	0.3 E	0.2 WNW	0.8 ESE	0.2 S	0.7 SSW	0.6 SE	1.0 SSE	0.8 SSW	0.6 E	1.1 SSW	0.5 SSW	0.3 WSW	1.0 SW	0.7 SSW
Period (s)	11	10	9	9	5	9	16	9	9	15	7	11	12	6	7	12	8	9	12	9	12	12
Wind waves (m) & direction	0.9 SSE	1.4 SSE	-	1.9 ENE	-	1.4 NE	1.2 S	0.8 ESE	1.5 E	0.8 SSW	0.7 SW	1.6 SW	-	1.5 SW	0.5 W	-	-	0.5 E	1.5 ESE	0.8 SSW	-	-
Period (s)	6	6	-	7	-	6	5	5	6	5	4	10	-	6	3	-	-	7	8	5	-	-

	Wednesday 04					Thursday 05								Friday 06								Sat
	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	11AM	2PM	5PM	8PM	11PM	2AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Africa	Beach Road Cape Town	Silwerstroom West Coast	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Boneyards Cape Town	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Umhlanga KZN North	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Addington (South Beach) Durban/KZN South	Cape St Martin West Coast	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Stompneus West Coast	Alkantstrand KZN North	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town
Rating	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	1	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SW	1.0 S	0.9 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	1.6 ENE	1.4 NE	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SW	3.0 ENE	2.2 ENE	2.4 NE	1.7 SSW	1.3 SW	0.9 SW	1.1 SW	0.9 ENE	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW
Period(s) (?)	12	11	11	12	12	11	6	6	11	12	10	8	8	8	7	11	10	12	6	11	11	11
Energy(?)	473	606	317	272	300	269	316	261	362	346	288	1018	1010	1183	501	557	343	470	93	354	295	295
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	glass	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass
Tide State(?)	-	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)				5:04PM 1.47				5:49AM 2.04				5:53PM 1.75				6:15AM 1.62				6:21PM 1.50
Low Tide / height (m)		11:05AM 0.09				11:09PM 0.09				11:55AM 0.16				12:03AM 0.26				12:12PM 0.25				12:09AM 0.29
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	25	25	27	25	24	23	23	24	22	26	24	26	26	26	18	22	24	25	27	22	20	20
Chill °C (?)	25	25	27	25	24	23	23	24	22	26	24	26	26	26	18	22	24	25	27	22	20	20
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:26	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:45	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	7:49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:45	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	1.0 S	0.9 SSW	0.9 SW	0.8 SW	0.9 SSE	0.8 SW	1.1 ENE	1.0 E	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 SW	0.4 SSW	2.2 ENE	1.9 ENE	0.8 SW	1.3 SW	0.9 SW	1.1 SW	0.9 ENE	1.1 SW	1.1 SW	1.1 SW
Period (s)	11	10	11	12	6	11	6	6	11	12	10	11	8	8	11	11	10	12	6	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.6 S	0.5 S	0.8 SW	0.9 S	0.5 E	0.4 ESE	0.2 WNW	0.7 E	0.8 ESE	0.2 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.3 SSW	0.5 SW	0.7 E	0.8 S	0.2 WNW	0.4 E	0.5 E	0.2 WNW	0.2 WNW
Period (s)	12	12	11	10	12	6	8	8	15	8	8	13	10	10	13	9	6	16	9	9	16	16
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.0 SSE	1.0 S	0.9 SSE	1.1 S	1.2 SSE	1.0 SSE	1.6 ENE	1.4 NE	1.3 S	-	-	3.0 ENE	1.8 NNE	2.4 NE	1.7 SSW	0.7 SW	-	1.3 SSW	-	0.5 E	1.1 S	0.9 S
Period (s)	6	11	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	-	-	8	7	8	7	4	-	6	-	3	5	5

	Wednesday 04															Thursday 05
	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in South Africa	Beach Road Cape Town	Silwerstroom West Coast	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Boneyards Cape Town	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Buffalo Bay Garden Route	Umhlanga KZN North	Ansteys Durban/KZN South	Addington (South Beach) Durban/KZN South	Cape St Martin West Coast	Boneyards Eastern Cape (S)	Gerickes Point Garden Route	Stompneus West Coast	Alkantstrand KZN North	Buffalo Bay Wildside Garden Route	Beach Road Cape Town	Beach Road Cape Town
Rating	2	3	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	2	4	4	3	3	3	2	2	1	2	2	2
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	0.9 SW	0.8 SSW	0.8 SW	1.7 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.4 ENE	0.9 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	0.5 S	0.8 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW
Period(s) (?)	12	12	12	12	12	12	5	5	12	11	12	6	6	6	12	12	11	11	11	11	11	11
Energy(?)	391	364	473	473	468	468	137	126	332	279	411	300	190	258	398	378	332	309	164	339	264	264
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	on	cross- on	cross	cross	on	cross- off	cross- off	glass	glass	cross- on	cross- on	glass	glass
High Tide / height (m)										5:24PM 1.60												5:23AM 1.59
Low Tide / height (m)				11:05AM 0.09												11:29PM 0.03
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	risk thund- der	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	24	23	25	26	27	26	27	26	23	26	24	25	25	25	24	25	24	21	23	24	22	22
Chill °C (?)	24	23	25	26	27	26	27	26	23	26	24	25	25	25	24	25	24	21	23	24	22	22
Sunrise	6:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	1.0 S	1.0 S	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.5 ESE	0.5 S	0.9 SW	0.9 ESE	0.8 SW	0.5 SSW	0.5 S	0.5 S	1.0 S	0.8 SW	0.8 SW	1.0 S	0.5 S	0.8 SW	0.9 SW	0.9 SW
Period (s)	12	12	11	11	12	12	9	13	12	9	12	11	11	12	7	12	11	7	11	11	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.8 S	0.7 S	0.9 SW	0.9 SW	0.1 NW	0.1 NW	0.5 S	0.4 ESE	0.6 S	0.8 SSW	0.8 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.9 SW	0.8 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.8 SW	0.4 ESE	0.7 ESE	0.8 S	0.8 S
Period (s)	6	6	12	12	16	16	13	9	11	11	9	8	9	9	12	9	9	11	8	9	6	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	1.1 SSE	-	1.0 SSE	1.1 SSE	1.0 S	1.0 S	1.2 ENE	1.2 ENE	1.6 SE	-	-	1.7 ENE	1.4 ENE	1.4 ENE	-	0.3 NE	-	-	0.9 ENE	-	1.0 S	-
Period (s)	6	-	6	6	11	11	5	5	6	-	-	6	6	6	-	2	-	-	5	-	6	-

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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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