Golfo de Cadiz buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
8.5 ft
2.6 m
- Dominant period
- 12 s
- Direction
- from WSW 253°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 8.5 ft at 12 s from the WSW. 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 2 days, the model tracked the buoy within 10%.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 8.4 ft | 10 s | WSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 5.8 ft | 11 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 4.1 ft | 9.8 s | W |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.3 ft | 8.9 s | W |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 5.6 ft | 7.4 s | WSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.9 ft | 8.6 s | WSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 3.9 ft | 12 s | W |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 3.5 ft | 12 s | W |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (36.500°N, 7.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Faro coastal buoy8.7 ft · 11 sLive · 95 km
- Tarifa coastal buoy2.9 ft · 10 sLive · 134 km
- Algeciras-Pta. Carnero coastal buoy1.6 ft · 11 sLive · 146 km
- Ceuta coastal buoy1.7 ft · 7.3 sLive · 160 km
- Malaga coastal buoy1.0 ft · 3.7 sLive · 226 km
- Sines coastal buoy12.9 ft · 11 sLive · 236 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 13 kt from the W
- Air temperature
- 69°F (20.6°C)
- Pressure
- 1012.9 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 9:00 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the SW and W.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 16.1 ft at 12 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6200085
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 36.488°N, 6.963°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.
