Lisbon area, Portugal

Carcavelos buoy: live swell

Carcavelos is Lisbon's surf beach, at the entrance to the Tagus estuary. Sheltered from north-west swells, it only works when the swell is big enough to get into the river mouth, mostly in winter. The Sines buoy, 91 km to the south, is the closest.

The spot and its buoys

Buoy colour: wave height

Buoys for Carcavelos

Carcavelos wave forecast

Wave model GFS Wave 18 km · updated

Thu 5/11

0.7-0.9m

169 kJ

0.8m 12s

284°

0.7-0.9m

165 kJ

0.8m 12s

285°

0.7-0.8m

143 kJ

0.8m 11s

285°

Low tide05:27 AM1.19m
High tide11:42 AM3.19m67
Low tide06:02 PM0.98m
Fri 6/11

0.6-0.7m

108 kJ

0.6m 12s

292°

0.5-0.6m

87 kJ

0.6m 12s

292°

0.5-0.6m

77 kJ

0.6m 11s

292°

0.6-0.7m

91 kJ

0.6m 11s

293°

0.8-0.9m

163 kJ

0.8m 11s

293°

0.9-1.1m

88 kJ

1m 6s

234°

High tide12:11 AM3.09m71
Low tide06:13 AM1.05m
High tide12:27 PM3.27m75
Low tide06:41 PM0.91m
Sat 7/11

0.9-1.1m

85 kJ

1m 6s

226°

0.8-1m

65 kJ

0.9m 6s

225°

0.8-0.9m

50 kJ

0.8m 6s

225°

0.7-0.9m

42 kJ

0.8m 6s

225°

0.7-0.8m

35 kJ

0.8m 6s

225°

0.7-0.9m

36 kJ

0.8m 6s

226°

High tide12:50 AM3.21m78
Low tide06:53 AM0.94m
High tide01:08 PM3.31m81
Low tide07:15 PM0.86m
Sun 8/11

1-1.2m

435 kJ

1.1m 13s

270°

1.2-1.4m

124 kJ

1.3m 6s

203°

1.4-1.7m

192 kJ

1.5m 7s

199°

1.7-2.1m

332 kJ

1.9m 7s

198°

2.1-2.5m

1168 kJ

2.3m 11s

243°

2.3-2.8m

1251 kJ

2.5m 10s

234°

High tide01:27 AM3.29m83
Low tide07:31 AM0.88m
High tide01:45 PM3.3m84
Low tide07:48 PM0.86m
Mon 9/11

2.4-2.9m

1274 kJ

2.6m 10s

226°

2.7-3.3m

1802 kJ

3m 10s

235°

3-3.6m

2379 kJ

3.3m 11s

237°

3-3.6m

2379 kJ

3.3m 11s

236°

3.1-3.8m

2715 kJ

3.5m 11s

238°

3.3-4m

3118 kJ

3.6m 11s

239°

High tide02:01 AM3.34m84
Low tide08:07 AM0.86m
High tide02:20 PM3.25m84
Low tide08:20 PM0.88m

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