Gran Canaria buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Last reading
This reading is more than 3 hours old. The buoy may have stopped sending waves for now.
Significant wave height at the buoy
4.6 ft
1.4 m
- Dominant period
- 11 s
- Direction
- from NNW 332°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 4.6 ft at 11 s from the NNW.
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 | 5.2 ft | 11 s | NNW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 4.2 ft | 9.5 s | NNW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 4.0 ft | 10 s | N |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.8 ft | 9.4 s | N |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 3.4 ft | 9 s | N |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.1 ft | 14 s | N |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 5.5 ft | 15 s | NNW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (28.250°N, 15.750°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Las Palmas Este coastal buoy2.5 ft · 6.9 sLive · 43 km
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife coastal buoy1.9 ft · 9.4 sLive · 52 km
- Tenerife Sur buoy2.7 ft · 12 sStale · 81 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 9 kt from the NNE
- Air temperature
- 73°F (22.8°C)
- Pressure
- 1017.0 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 2:00 AM GMT+0.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the NW and SW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 9.2 ft at 6.8 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 1300130
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 28.184°N, 15.810°W
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Atlantic/Canary
- 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.
