Villajoyosa coastal buoy
Spain
Last wave reading:
Now at the buoy
Significant wave height at the buoy
2.4 ft
0.7 m
- Dominant period
- 5.1 s
- Direction
- from SSW 194°
This station does not send a swell and wind-wave split, so the numbers are for the whole sea.
Short-period wind chop: 2.4 ft at 5.1 s from the SSW. 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.
Nearby buoys
- Cabo de Palos buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sStale · 94 km
- Valencia buoy5.4 ft · 4.7 sStale · 119 km
- Dragonera buoy9.6 ft · 7.4 sStale · 232 km
- Bahia-De-Palma7.7 ftStale · 275 km
- Tarragona buoy6.9 ft · 7.2 sLive · 282 km
- Cabo de Gata buoy7.7 ft · 7.2 sStale · 285 km
Other readings
- Water temperature
- 70°F (21.2°C)
- Wind
- 3 kt from the NNW, gusts 4 kt
Reported Nov 13, 9:00 AM GMT+1.
How to read this buoy
Over the readings shown here, most wave energy reached this buoy from the S.
Biggest hourly reading in that record: 3.5 ft at 7.4 s on Nov 12.
- Operator
- AVRAMAR ESPAÑA ACUICULTURA S.L.; SIDMAR Estudios y Servicios Oceanograficos
- Program
- Copernicus Marine In Situ
- Position
- 38.495°N, 0.202°W
- 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 AVRAMAR ESPAÑA ACUICULTURA S.L.; SIDMAR Estudios y Servicios Oceanograficos. 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.
