Cabo de Peñas buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
4.6 ft
1.4 m
- Dominant period
- 9.2 s
- Direction
- from NW 321°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period swell: 4.6 ft at 9.2 s from the NW. Building over the last 6 hours, up 0.8 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 ran 20% low against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 8.4 ft | 7.1 s | NE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5.9 ft | 7.2 s | NE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 9.1 ft | 7.6 s | WNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 7.0 ft | 9.5 s | WNW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 10.8 ft | 11 s | WNW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 15.2 ft | 15 s | WNW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 16.7 ft | 16 s | WNW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 11.6 ft | 13 s | WNW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (43.750°N, 6.250°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Gijon coastal buoy5.9 ft · 5.9 sLive · 44 km
- Estaca de Bares buoy5.4 ft · 9.4 sStale · 126 km
- Langosteira II coastal buoy4.4 ft · 8.8 sLive · 197 km
- Villano-Sisargas buoy7.7 ft · 11 sStale · 247 km
- Bilbao II coastal buoy4.3 ft · 6.1 sLive · 248 km
- Bilbao station7.2 ft · 6.3 sLive · 252 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 15 kt from the E
- Air temperature
- 61°F (16.1°C)
- Pressure
- 1005.1 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 W.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 5.8 ft at 13 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 6200025
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 43.758°N, 6.169°W
- 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.
