Ceduna
Australia
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
3.5 ft
1.1 m
- Dominant period
- 11 s
- Direction
- from SW 219°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 3.5 ft at 11 s from the SW. 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.
Nearby buoys
- Spilsby South2.8 ft · 11 sLive · 376 km
- Black Point0.6 ft · 15 sStale · 459 km
- North Kangaroo Island2.6 ft · 11 sLive · 469 km
- Cape Du Couedic5.7 ft · 12 sLive · 496 km
- Brighton1.2 ft · 2.3 sLive · 535 km
- Victor Harbouroffshore4.1 ft · 10 sLive · 585 km
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 5.4 ft at 13 s on Nov 11.
- Operator
- IMOS Coastal Wave Buoys Facility
- Program
- Australian national wave buoy network (AODN)
- Position
- 32.349°S, 133.648°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Australia/Adelaide
- 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.
