Valencia 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
5.4 ft
1.6 m
- Dominant period
- 4.7 s
- Direction
- from WSW 250°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 5.4 ft at 4.7 s from the WSW.
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 | 4.9 ft | 4.9 s | WSW |
| Sat, Nov 14 | 3.9 ft | 4.3 s | WSW |
| Sun, Nov 15 | 4.3 ft | 4.7 s | WSW |
| Mon, Nov 16 | 3.8 ft | 4.3 s | WSW |
| Tue, Nov 17 | 4.7 ft | 4.6 s | WSW |
| Wed, Nov 18 | 4.3 ft | 4.6 s | WSW |
| Thu, Nov 19 | 3.5 ft | 4.1 s | WSW |
| Fri, Nov 20 | 3.2 ft | 4 s | WSW |
ECMWF WAM wave model via Open-Meteo, nearest model cell (39.500°N, 0.250°E). Both lines are significant wave height at sea, the same measure the buoy reports. Model output, not a Quiver beach forecast.
Nearby buoys
- Villajoyosa coastal buoy2.4 ft · 5.1 sLive · 119 km
- Dragonera buoy9.6 ft · 7.4 sStale · 163 km
- Tarragona buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sLive · 169 km
- Tarragona coastal buoy3.9 ft · 7.8 sLive · 192 km
- Cabo de Palos buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sStale · 212 km
- Soller Buoy4.1 ftStale · 214 km
Other readings
- Wind
- 24 kt from the WSW
- Air temperature
- 68°F (20.1°C)
- Pressure
- 1005.1 hPa
Reported Nov 13, 4:00 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: 6.2 ft at 5.3 s on Nov 12.
- Station id
- 6100281
- Operator
- Puertos del Estado
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 39.519°N, 0.199°E
- 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.
