Bundaberg
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
1.7 ft
0.5 m
- Dominant period
- 2.9 s
- Direction
- from N 0°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 1.7 ft at 2.9 s from the N. Holding steady over the last 6 hours.
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 tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 2.0 ft | 3.7 s | NNE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 2.8 ft | 4.1 s | NNE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 3.3 ft | 4.4 s | N |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.1 ft | 4.3 s | N |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 2.7 ft | 4.5 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.2 ft | 4.8 s | ESE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.0 ft | 4.8 s | E |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 3.3 ft | 4.7 s | E |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (24.750°S, 152.500°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Gladstone1.4 ft · 2.8 sLive · 133 km
- Wide Bay2.8 ft · 3.6 sLive · 141 km
- Emu Park1.7 ft · 3.5 sLive · 211 km
- Mooloolaba3.2 ft · 4.3 sLive · 222 km
- Caloundra3.2 ft · 4.5 sLive · 251 km
- North Moreton Bay3.1 ft · 4.3 sLive · 260 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NE and N.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.9 ft at 5 s on Nov 11.
- Operator
- Queensland Department of Environment and Science
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 24.670°S, 152.500°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Brisbane
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: Data was sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Licence: CC BY 4.0. Changes: Quiver converts the units (feet, knots, °F) and shows a subset of the published fields. Station page at the source.
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.
