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St Francis Bay Surf Report
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SURF RATING
FAIR
★★★☆☆
Fair — worth a paddle: chest-to-head-high waves on short, wind-driven swell, with a little cross-shore texture.
WAVE
2.0 m
SWELL
1.7m @ 8s
WIND
13 km/h Cross-shore
WATER
20.7°C
★★★☆☆
Fair — worth a paddle: chest-to-head-high waves on short, wind-driven swell, with a little cross-shore texture.
Swell: 1.7 m @ 8 s (SSW)
Wave height: 2.0 m
Wind: 13 km/h WSW Cross-shore
Sea temp: 20.7 °C · Wetsuit: Shorty / springsuit
Best window today: 06:00–08:00 (lightest wind)
🧬 Break DNA
31% match
Today: off its ideal window today
🌊 Wave type
Beach & point
🧭 Best swell
SSE groundswell, 11–16s
💨 Best wind
NNW offshore
🏄 Board
Shortboard
📈 Skill
Intermediate–advanced
Ideal wind & swell are derived from the way this coast faces; break type is local knowledge. Match blends today’s swell angle, wind & period.
🌊 Why it’s reading like this right now
- Short, wind-driven SSW swell at 8s is wrapping into the bank
- 12 km/h cross-shore wind gives some texture
- Not fully aligned today — pick your moment on the timeline above.
🏄 When to paddle out today
🏄 Reading today’s surf…
■ epic ■ clean ■ fun ■ marginal ■ flat ■ dawn/dusk · tap an hour
🎒 Pack for this session
🏄 Board
Shortboard
🤿 Wetsuit
Shorty / springsuit
🧴 Bring
Reef-safe sunscreen (UV very high)
🦶 Bring
Booties for the rocks
🌆Evening glass-off:After-work session — can get busy if it’s clean
Crowd estimate is a comfort/timing proxy from conditions & day of week — not a live crowd count.
Swell & wind
■ swell in ■ wind (green=offshore/good) offshore zone
Spot match
5-day wave & wind forecast
■ wave height (m) ── wind (km/h, right)
7-Day Surf Forecast
| Day | Rating | Wave | Period | Swell | Midday wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mon 2 Nov | ★★★★☆ | 2.1 m | 8 s | SSW | 20 km/h Cross |
| Tue 3 Nov | ★★☆☆☆ | 1.8 m | 8 s | SSW | 16 km/h Onshore |
| Wed 4 Nov | ★★★☆☆ | 1.9 m | 9 s | SSW | 23 km/h Onshore |
| Thu 5 Nov | ★★★☆☆ | 2.4 m | 8 s | SSW | 37 km/h Cross |
| Fri 6 Nov | ★★★☆☆ | 2.8 m | 8 s | SW | 33 km/h Cross |
| Sat 7 Nov | ★★☆☆☆ | 2.5 m | 8 s | SSW | 32 km/h Cross |
| Sun 8 Nov | ★★★☆☆ | 3.0 m | 9 s | SSW | 8 km/h Onshore |
Daily peak wave height, mean swell period & direction, midday wind. Rating is our surf-quality score.
🌊 Today's tide (nearest station)
☀️ Sun & skin — out on the water all day
Sunrise 05:17 · Sunset 18:51 · Peak UV 8
Surfers & anglers get the highest UV dose of anyone. Recommended: SPF 50+, reapply every 2 hours and after every session.
Shop SPF 50+ sunscreen →Surf/wave: Open-Meteo Marine. Sun/UV/pressure: Open-Meteo. Tides: Stormglass model. Solunar is an approximate guide. Generated Mon, 02 Nov 2026 18:13 SAST.
Aerial map — St Francis Bay
Beach break
Towards the point
PeakTake-off / peak
Hand-styled from NGI 0.25 m national aerial. Markers show the peak, channel & hazards — indicative local knowledge, not live conditions or navigation advice; tides, banks, rips & hazards change, so use your own eyes on the day.
About St Francis Bay — Surf Local Knowledge
St Francis Bay lies between the Indian Ocean and the Kromme River, a canal-and-thatch holiday village just around the corner from Cape St Francis and Jeffreys Bay. Its name is woven into surfing history through Bruce's Beauties.
Bruce's Beauties is the right-hand point break made famous by the film The Endless Summer, once reeling off long, near-perfect walls fed by sand from the river mouth and open dunes. Decades of dune stabilisation, river changes and sand loss have exposed rock and flattened the banks, so the wave now only fires with the right sand and swell, and sand-nourishment and coastal-engineering projects have aimed to restore it. At its best it needs a solid south-west swell and offshore north-westerly wind; otherwise nearby Seal Point and J-Bay are the dependable options.