Cabo Begur buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
8.9 ft
2.7 m
- Dominant period
- 8.6 s
- Direction
- from SW 219°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 8.9 ft at 8.6 s from the SW. Building over the last 6 hours, up 2.5 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 2 days, the model tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 8.3 ft | 6.6 s | NW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 4.1 ft | 6.3 s | NE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 7.5 ft | 6.4 s | SSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 6.6 ft | 6.2 s | SW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 8.3 ft | 7 s | SW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 5.3 ft | 7.8 s | SW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 6.0 ft | 5.7 s | SW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 4.6 ft | 7 s | SSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (42.000°N, 3.750°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Barcelona II coastal buoy4.5 ft · 8.5 sLive · 136 km
- Sete2.3 ftLive · 164 km
- Espiguette3.6 ftLive · 174 km
- Mesurho4.3 ft · 7.6 sLive · 186 km
- Le Planier6.6 ftLive · 194 km
- Tarragona coastal buoy4.1 ft · 8 sLive · 225 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 20 kt from the NW
- Air temperature
- 64°F (17.7°C)
- Pressure
- 1002.9 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 7:00 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SW and S.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 9.2 ft at 8.8 s on Nov 13.
- Station id
- 6100196
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 41.901°N, 3.654°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 Puertos del Estado. 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.
