Le Havre - Haut du Sud-Ouest
France
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
0.7 ft
0.2 m
- Dominant period
- —
- Direction
- no direction
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Close to flat at the buoy: 0.7 ft of total wave height. Fading over the last 6 hours, down 0.5 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 ran 136% high against the buoy.
| Day | Height | Peak period | From |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fri, Nov 13 | 2.2 ft | 4.9 s | N |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | SSE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 7.0 ft | 6.9 s | WNW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 6.6 ft | 6.9 s | WNW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 8.1 ft | 7.5 s | WNW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 6.8 ft | 7 s | WNW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 4.1 ft | 4.9 s | W |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 3.1 ft | 4.8 s | W |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (49.500°N, 0.000°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Cherbourg2.6 ftLive · 125 km
- Baie de Somme2.6 ftLive · 126 km
- Seaford wave buoy0.6 ft · 4.6 sLive · 144 km
- Rustington wave buoy1.1 ft · 2.1 sLive · 146 km
- Pevensey Bay wave buoy1.0 ft · 6.7 sLive · 147 km
- Hastings WaveNet Site2.6 ft · 6.3 sLive · 149 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.0 ft on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 6200255
- Operator
- Cerema; Le Havre Large Seaport
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 49.475°N, 0.084°E
- Type
- Moored buoy
- Local time zone
- Europe/Paris
- Swell split
- No, whole-sea numbers only
Source: E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information; https://doi.org/10.48670/moi-00036. Data from Cerema; Le Havre Large Seaport. 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.
