Which back beach
No rating and no score. This page publishes the numbers and the hours and leaves the judgement with you, because sandbank shape and tide stage decide more than any feed here can see.
Data age
- Forecast
The numbers
Forecast Swell offshore: 1.7 m, 9 s period, from 222°Open-Meteo marine forecast at the offshore point, sea cell selection, issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Wind 12 kn from 158°, gusting 17 knOpen-Meteo land forecast at Point Nepean, issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Gunnamatta Beach: +3.8 kn onshore, faces 230°, exposure 0.99, least onshore at 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 3 deg; mean of the two), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Rye Ocean Beach: +3.4 kn onshore, faces 232°, exposure 0.98, least onshore at 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 4 deg; mean of the two, re-measured 2026-09-30 at a corrected point on the beach), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Koonya Ocean Beach: +1.7 kn onshore, faces 240°, exposure 0.95, least onshore at 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 8 deg; mean of the two), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Number 16 Beach: +5.5 kn onshore, faces 221°, exposure 1.00, least onshore at 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 6 deg; mean of the two, re-measured 2026-09-30 at a corrected point on the beach), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Sorrento Ocean Beach: +5.7 kn onshore, faces 220°, exposure 1.00, least onshore at 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 11 deg; mean of the two), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Portsea Surf Beach: +7.2 kn onshore, faces 212°, exposure 0.98, least onshore 16:00 to 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 1 deg; mean of the two), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Forecast Bridgewater Bay: +7.5 kn onshore, faces 210°, exposure 0.98, least onshore 16:00 to 20:00computed from the forecast and this beach's measured bearing (OSM normal and terrain DEM agree to 15 deg; mean of the two), issued 10:00 Sun 8 Nov.
Not available 3 ocean beaches are left out of these numbers because their bearing is not settled enough to resolve wind onto: Diamond Bay, London Bridge, St Andrews Beach. They are listed on the all-beaches page with the disagreement named. Last heard from this page's survey of the 18 beaches and the aspect measurements behind it at 10:01 Sun 8 Nov.
Not available no rating, no star score and no wave-quality call is published here. Sandbank shape, crowd, rip position and tide stage decide more than wind and swell do, and none of the four is in any feed this build reads. Last heard from this page's stated limits at 10:01 Sun 8 Nov.
Raw numbers, no rating. Onshore is the component of the forecast wind along each beach's own bearing. Negative means it blows off the sand. Exposure is the fraction of a straight-in swell that reaches the beach. Times are absolute and local, and the window is the run of hours with the least onshore wind, not the hours with the biggest swell.
The next three days, every three hours
| Sun 8 | Mon 9 | Tue 10 | Wed 11 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Hour | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 00 | 03 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 00 | 03 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 | 21 | 00 | 03 | 06 |
| Windkn | 13 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 13 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 13 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 6 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 15 | 16 |
| Gustskn | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 20 | 12 | 5 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 14 | 9 | 18 | 22 |
| Wind directionarrow: going to | from SSE 156° | from SSE 161° | from SSE 155° | from SSE 153° | from SE 125° | from E 100° | from E 93° | from E 83° | from ENE 58° | from NNE 22° | from ENE 58° | from SE 126° | from E 97° | from E 84° | from ENE 69° | from NE 35° | from NNE 20° | from NE 43° | from E 81° | from SE 134° | from SE 126° | from SE 143° | from SSW 193° | from S 189° |
| Swellm | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.5 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 1.2 |
| Swell periods | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 |
| Swell directionarrow: going to | from SW 223° | from SW 220° | from SW 218° | from SW 219° | from SW 218° | from SW 219° | from SW 220° | from SW 219° | from SW 219° | from SW 219° | from SW 219° | from SW 219° | from SW 220° | from SW 222° | from SW 226° | from SW 223° | from SW 224° | from SW 226° | from SW 227° | from SW 228° | from SW 228° | from SW 228° | from SW 228° | from SW 228° |
| Air°C | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 |
| Rainmm | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 |
Open-Meteo land forecast (Point Nepean) and marine forecast (offshore cell), data as of 10:01 Sun 08 Nov. Forecast values, not observations.
Darker cells are higher values; the number is always printed. Arrows point where the wind or swell is going. Shaded hours are night. · means no forecast for that hour.