Royan
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. 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 | 1.6 ft | 2.9 s | ENE |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 1.4 ft | 2.7 s | ENE |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 2.2 ft | 3.6 s | W |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 2.0 ft | 2.8 s | SW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 2.6 ft | 3.4 s | WSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 2.1 ft | 13 s | W |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 2.2 ft | 13 s | W |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 1.9 ft | 14 s | W |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (45.500°N, 1.000°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
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- Anglet3.6 ftLive · 236 km
- Donostia buoy4.1 ft · 5.5 sLive · 240 km
How to read this buoy
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 2.0 ft on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 6200253
- Operator
- Cerema
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 45.610°N, 1.032°W
- 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. 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.
