Tenerife Sur 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
2.7 ft
0.8 m
- Dominant period
- 12 s
- Direction
- from SW 236°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Mid-period swell: 2.7 ft at 12 s from the SW.
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 | 3.0 ft | 11 s | WSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 2.0 ft | 10 s | W |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 2.1 ft | 3.7 s | NE |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 2.6 ft | 4.2 s | ENE |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 3.3 ft | 4.2 s | ENE |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 3.0 ft | 4.1 s | ENE |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 2.6 ft | 3.9 s | ENE |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (28.000°N, 16.500°W). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Santa Cruz de Tenerife coastal buoy2.0 ft · 12 sLive · 63 km
- Gran Canaria buoy4.6 ft · 11 sStale · 81 km
- Las Palmas Este coastal buoy2.5 ft · 9.6 sLive · 118 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 3 kt from the NE
- Air temperature
- 72°F (22.4°C)
- Pressure
- 1016.8 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 W and SW.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 8.5 ft at 7.4 s on Nov 11.
- Station id
- 1300131
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 27.999°N, 16.606°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.
