Bahia-De-Palma
Spain
Last wave reading:
Last reading
This reading is more than 3 hours old. The buoy may have stopped sending waves for now.
Significant wave height at the buoy
7.7 ft
2.3 m
- Dominant period
- —
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Waves: 7.7 ft.
Significant wave height is the average of the biggest third of waves at the buoy. It is not surf height at a beach.
Trend at the buoy
Height at the buoy
- Total (significant height)
Period
- Dominant period
Hourly means of the buoy's readings. Arrows point the way the waves travel.
Model vs the buoy
- Buoy, hourly
- Model, past days
- Model forecast
Over the last day, the model ran 44% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 8.9 ft | 7.4 s | WSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 4.7 ft | 6 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 5.0 ft | 6.1 s | SW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 5.2 ft | 5.7 s | SW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 8.1 ft | 7.1 s | SW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 8.2 ft | 7.2 s | SW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 5.5 ft | 6.3 s | SW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 5.7 ft | 6.3 s | SW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (39.500°N, 2.500°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Soller Buoy4.1 ftStale · 41 km
- Porto Colom Buoy6.3 ftStale · 51 km
- Dragonera buoy9.6 ft · 7.4 sStale · 52 km
- Mahon buoy9.6 ft · 10 sLive · 151 km
- Tarragona buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sLive · 169 km
- Barcelona II coastal buoy5.0 ft · 8.8 sLive · 207 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 8.8 ft on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 61499
- Operator
- Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 39.499°N, 2.702°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Europe/Madrid
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Balearic Islands Coastal Observing and Forecasting System. Licence: Copernicus Marine Service licence. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields.
Not for navigation. Readings can be late, missing or wrong; check official marine forecasts before going to sea.
Buoy terms
- Significant height
- The average of the biggest third of waves the buoy measured. Sets in the surf zone can be bigger or smaller.
- Dominant period
- Seconds between the waves carrying the most energy. Longer period means more power and more bend around points.
- Swell vs wind waves
- Swell was made by distant wind; wind waves were made nearby. The buoy splits its spectrum at a cutoff period to report each.
- Direction
- Where waves come from, in degrees true. 270° is from the west.
