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Swell: 1.8 m @ 11 s (SSW)

Wave height: 2.7 m

Wind: 14 km/h NE Cross-shore

Sea temp: 13.5 °C

Best window today: 09:00–11:00 (lightest wind)

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Sunrise 07:02 · Sunset 17:49 · Peak UV 5

Surfers & anglers get the highest UV dose of anyone. Recommended: SPF 30+, reapply every 2 hours and after every session.

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Surf/wave: Open-Meteo Marine. Sun/UV: Open-Meteo. Solunar is an approximate guide. Generated Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:51 SAST.

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.