Virginia Surf Map – Wind and Wave forecasts

Virginia 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 Virginia region.

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Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Sat		Sun		Mon				Tue		Wednesday 29			Thursday 30			Friday 31			Saturday 01
	Night	Night	PM	PM	AM	PM	Night	Night	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Galveston Texas	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Chandeleur Islands Louisiana	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Indicas Great Abaco	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Alabama Point Alabama	Bogue Pier Carolina North	Shackleford Banks Carolina North	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Pelican Watch Carolina North	Delray Beach Florida - South	Beauregard Carolina North	The Point Carolina North	Beauregard Carolina North	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Assateague Maryland
Rating	1	1	2	1	2	2	1	0	2	3	3	3	3	3	1	1	2	1	1	3	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.5 SE	0.8 SSE	0.8 ENE	1.4 SE	0.5 NE	1.7 E	1.2 E	0.4 SE	1.5 ESE	0.4 SE	1.2 N	1.8 NNE	2.2 ESE	1.6 S	1.4 NNE	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	2.5 ESE	2.0 ESE	0.4 SE
Period(s) (?)	9	6	12	7	15	7	7	5	10	8	9	11	10	7	10	8	8	11	10	8	8	10
Energy(?)	78	74	392	268	292	394	133	11	391	30	489	928	980	366	508	397	457	75	95	926	594	40
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross	on	off	cross- off	off	off	cross	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- off	off
High Tide / height (m)	11:45PM 1.36	10:51AM 1.06		12:00AM 0.59	12:32PM 0.81		1:19AM 1.25		2:41PM 0.88	2:06AM 1.26				2:55AM 0.26	3:46PM 0.85		4:10AM 1.36	4:28PM 0.91			4:36PM 0.89
Low Tide / height (m)			5:27PM 0.17		6:03AM 0.20	6:13PM 0.21	7:03PM 0.42	7:27AM 0.26		7:40PM 0.45	8:19AM 0.26		9:27PM 0.24			10:22PM 0.20	10:15AM 0.57		11:13PM 0.15	10:28AM 0.23		11:32PM 0.31
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	risk thund- der	rain shwrs	risk thund- der	clear	clear	rain shwrs	clear	cloudy	rain shwrs	clear	clear	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear	light rain	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	13	1	6	-	-	2	-	-	2	-	-	5	1	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-
High °C	10	26	22	25	22	27	8	18	14	15	25	25	8	15	25	15	12	16	14	12	13	14
Low °C	9	23	22	25	22	27	8	15	13	13	25	25	7	14	24	12	11	15	11	12	12	13
Chill °C (?)	8	26	22	25	22	27	4	17	12	13	25	25	4	13	25	14	9	15	12	9	12	13
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:31	-	-	-	-	-	7:13	-	-	7:28	-	-	7:26	-	-	7:41	-	-
Sunset	-	-	6:35	6:13	-	6:29	-	-	6:17	-	-	6:27	-	-	6:38	-	-	6:20	-	-	5:45	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 SE	0.6 SE	0.8 ENE	0.9 E	1.1 NE	1.7 E	1.2 E	0.4 SE	1.5 ESE	0.4 SE	1.2 N	1.8 NNE	2.2 ESE	0.7 E	1.4 NNE	0.6 SE	0.6 SE	0.5 SE	0.7 SW	2.5 ESE	2.0 ESE	0.4 SE
Period (s)	9	6	12	7	7	7	7	5	10	8	9	11	10	10	10	12	11	11	6	8	8	10
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 S	-	0.6 ESE	-	0.6 ENE	0.6 NE	0.2 S	0.2 SSE	-	0.4 SE	1.1 E	1.1 E	0.5 S	0.1 S	0.2 ESE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.5 SW	0.5 SE	0.3 SE	0.3 SE	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	8	-	7	-	11	11	6	6	-	8	8	8	12	15	11	8	10	6	10	19	17	9
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.8 SSE	1.4 NE	1.4 SE	-	-	0.6 NNE	0.4 NE	1.0 NNE	2.0 ENE	0.6 ENE	-	-	1.6 S	1.1 NNW	1.5 SW	1.6 SW	0.8 W	0.8 WNW	-	0.4 SW	0.4 WSW
Period (s)	-	6	7	7	-	-	4	3	5	10	8	-	-	7	6	8	8	4	4	-	3	3

	Saturday 25			Sunday 26							Monday 27								Tuesday 28
	6PM	8PM	11PM	2AM	5AM	8AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	1AM	6AM	7AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	8PM	0AM	2AM	5AM	9AM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Chandeleur Islands Louisiana	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Delray Beach Florida - South	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	0	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 ESE	0.5 SE	0.4 E	0.7 NE	1.1 SE	0.6 NE	0.8 SE	0.6 NE	0.6 NE	1.6 E	0.9 NE	0.6 NE	1.2 ESE	1.2 E	1.0 E
Period(s) (?)	9	9	9	8	8	8	8	7	7	10	11	7	16	6	15	14	6	7	14	7	7	7
Energy(?)	108	50	49	61	52	47	50	41	43	61	217	123	374	48	315	281	206	150	246	301	250	96
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	glass	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	glass	off	glass	glass	off
Tide State(?)	low	mid-flow	high	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	high	low	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low
High Tide / height (m)			10:39PM 0.88	11:17PM 0.61			11:42AM 1.53	12:57PM 0.95				12:43AM 0.62				12:58PM 0.88				12:39AM 0.61
Low Tide / height (m)	5:34PM 0.30								5:35PM 0.83	6:01PM 0.36								6:48PM 0.41				6:55AM 0.65
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	risk thund- der	cloudy	risk thund- der	clear	clear	light rain	risk thund- der	some clouds	risk thund- der	risk thund- der	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	1	-	2	-	-	3	2	-	1	1	-
Temp. °C	14	13	13	14	14	12	10	11	10	8	22	24	22	24	22	23	9	27	23	26	26	9
Chill °C (?)	13	13	13	13	13	11	10	11	10	6	22	24	22	24	22	23	6	27	23	26	26	6
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	7:18	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:43
Sunset	6:17	-	-	-	-	-	-	5:55	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:08	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 ESE	0.5 SE	0.5 SSE	1.1 NE	1.1 SE	1.1 NE	0.8 SE	0.9 NE	0.9 NE	0.3 S	0.9 NE	0.6 NE	1.2 ESE	1.2 E	1.0 E
Period (s)	8	9	9	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	6	7	7	6	7	7	6	7	6	7	7	7
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 E	0.2 ESE	0.3 E	0.4 SSE	0.2 E	0.3 ESE	0.4 E	0.7 NE	-	0.6 NE	0.4 SW	0.6 NE	0.6 NE	0.1 E	0.6 ESE	0.6 NE	0.8 NE	0.6 NE	0.1 S
Period (s)	9	10	10	13	13	11	7	10	9	10	11	-	16	5	15	14	13	8	14	8	8	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.6 ENE	0.5 ENE	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 SSW	-	-	-	-	1.6 E	-	0.3 SE	-	-	0.8 NNE
Period (s)	-	-	-	5	4	-	-	-	-	-	-	4	-	-	-	-	6	-	2	-	-	4

	Saturday 25								Sunday 26
	4PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	1AM	4AM	3AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	8AM	10AM	10AM	11AM	1PM
Best forecast wave conditions in Virginia	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Assateague Maryland	Assateague Maryland	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Atlantic Beach Carolina North	Assateague Maryland	Broad Cove Nova Scotia	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Ingonish Beach Cape Breton Island	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Chandeleur Islands Louisiana	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Alabama Point Alabama	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia	Delray Beach Florida - South	North Shore Breakers Bermuda	Indicas Great Abaco	Indicas Great Abaco	Lawrencetown Reef Nova Scotia
Rating	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	1	2	1	2	0	2	2	2	1	2	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 SSE	0.7 SE	0.7 SE	0.7 SSE	1.9 NE	1.6 SE	1.8 NE	1.3 SE	1.8 NE	1.7 NE	0.5 SE	2.4 ENE	1.6 NE	2.5 E	2.5 E	0.4 ESE
Period(s) (?)	9	8	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	6	7	6	6	6	6	7	8	6	8	8	8
Energy(?)	109	28	28	48	47	50	88	76	75	95	325	227	310	126	306	286	56	637	305	845	846	46
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	on	on	cross- off	cross- off	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	off	on	cross- off	on	on	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)								10:46PM 1.23
Low Tide / height (m)			4:48PM 0.13	5:51PM 0.19											5:48AM 0.20
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	clear	cloudy	clear	cloudy	some clouds	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	risk thund- der	some clouds	clear	clear	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-
High °C	14	14	13	16	15	13	10	9	9	9	22	25	22	24	22	22	8	26	22	26	26	10
Chill °C (?)	14	14	13	15	14	13	8	6	7	8	22	25	22	24	22	22	7	26	22	26	26	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:41	7:24	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	6:19	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 S	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.5 SE	0.5 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 SSE	0.7 SE	0.7 SE	0.7 SSE	0.6 SE	-	0.6 SE	-	0.6 SE	0.6 SE	0.5 SE	-	0.7 NE	0.3 NE	0.3 NE	0.4 ESE
Period (s)	8	8	8	8	8	9	8	8	8	8	7	-	7	-	7	7	7	-	10	13	13	8
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 SE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.2 E	0.2 E	0.2 ENE	0.4 S	0.2 ESE	0.2 ESE	0.4 SW	0.4 NW	-	0.4 NW	-	0.4 NW	0.4 NW	0.4 SW	-	0.6 SE	0.2 ENE	0.2 ENE	0.4 S
Period (s)	9	10	10	11	11	10	8	11	11	7	6	-	6	-	6	6	6	-	7	12	12	7
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	0.8 ENE	0.8 ENE	-	-	0.3 NW	0.3 NW	-	1.9 NE	1.6 SE	1.8 NE	1.3 SE	1.8 NE	1.7 NE	-	2.4 ENE	1.6 NE	2.5 E	2.5 E	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	4	4	-	-	2	2	-	6	7	6	6	6	6	-	8	6	8	8	-

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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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