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★★☆☆☆
Marginal: chest-to-head-high waves on short, wind-driven swell, with a little cross-shore texture.
Swell: 1.1 m @ 7 s (SSE)
Wave height: 1.6 m
Wind: 26 km/h W Cross-shore
Sea temp: 16.4 °C · Wetsuit: 4/3 mm wetsuit + booties
Best window today: 09:00–11:00 (lightest wind)
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| Day | Rating | Wave | Period | Swell | Midday wind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wed 23 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 1.8 m | 7 s | SE | 26 km/h Cross |
| Thu 24 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 2.1 m | 7 s | SSE | 22 km/h Cross |
| Fri 25 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 2.1 m | 9 s | S | 31 km/h Cross |
| Sat 26 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 1.7 m | 9 s | SSW | 11 km/h Onshore |
| Sun 27 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 2.5 m | 8 s | SSW | 22 km/h Cross |
| Mon 28 Sep | ★★★☆☆ | 2.4 m | 7 s | SSW | 15 km/h Cross |
| Tue 29 Sep | ★★☆☆☆ | 2.6 m | 7 s | SSE | 9 km/h Onshore |
Daily peak wave height, mean swell period & direction, midday wind. Rating is our surf-quality score.
🌊 Today's tide (nearest station)
Sunrise 06:07 · Sunset 18:18 · Peak UV 6
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 Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:13 SAST.
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.
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.