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Fanø Bugt wave buoy daily means for May 2016

Daily means from the Fanø Bugt wave buoy for May 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,488 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1.4 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.7–3.5 ft), while mean average wave period was 3.5 seconds (10th–90th percentile 2.6–4.4 seconds). All 4,457 checked values passed quality control. Across 6 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 2.5 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 3.7 seconds.

Generated only from the observations and comparisons shown on this page.

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.4ft
Mean: 1.8 ft
P10–P90: 0.7 — 3.5 ft
Recorded extremes

0.4 — 5.1 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

3.5secs
P10–P90: 2.6 — 4.4secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 6.1secs

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 744 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Mays

Historical baseline from 7,249 observations across 6 years.

Wave Height
1.8ft
0.7ft below mean
Historical mean 2.493ft
Wave Period
3.5s
0.2s below mean
Historical mean 3.7s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Fanø Bugt. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. To open hourly observations, use a linked day name in the table.

About Fanø Bugt wave buoy

Fanø Bugt is a Danish Coastal Authority directional buoy in the eastern North Sea southwest of Esbjerg. Its setting between the open sea, the island of Fanø and the approaches to the Wadden Sea represents conditions relevant to the harbour entrance, tidal inlets and the low-lying southwest Danish coast.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period and wave direction.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Fanø Bugt wave buoy daily means May 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)2232111111113444321322221111111
Mean maximum wave height (ft)3454222222225776642533342221132
Mean average period (s)4444333333334444444444344443333
Mean zero-crossing period (s)4444333322334444434334344333233
Mean peak wave directionWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 100%Wconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 66%SEconcentration 73%SSEconcentration 87%SEconcentration 98%Econcentration 96%ESEconcentration 85%Econcentration 96%ESEconcentration 58%WNWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%WNWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 89%WSWconcentration 96%SWconcentration 96%SWconcentration 96%WSWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 86%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 88%WNWconcentration 73%WNWconcentration 79%Variableconcentration 22%ENEconcentration 81%ENEconcentration 87%ENEconcentration 68%

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Wave metric colour key

Colours move through the scale as each number increases. They do not by themselves mean that conditions are good, safe or suitable for you.

Wave & swell height0–40+ ft
Wave & swell period0–22+ s
Wind speed0–75 mph

The displayed numbers remain the source of truth; colour is an additional visual cue.

What does buoy wave power mean?

kW/m means kilowatts of wave power per metre of wave crest. It describes the rate at which the observed sea state carries energy past the buoy.

Unlike the shore-directed forecast value, buoy wave power is the total power at the observation point. It is not projected towards a particular beach and does not predict breaking wave height.

In deep water, wave power can be calculated with:

P is approximately 0.49 times significant wave height squared times wave energy period.

P is power in kW/m, Hs is significant wave height in metres, and Te is wave energy period in seconds.

  • Provider-reported power is used when available.
  • Otherwise, a value is calculated only when both significant height and a genuine energy period are available. The ≈ symbol marks calculated values.
  • A dash is shown instead of substituting peak, Tm02, zero-crossing or other period measurements.
  • Daily and monthly figures use the mean of hourly-normalized observation power values; they are not calculated from mean height and period.

Wave direction, spectrum, water depth and local bathymetry still matter. Wave power is best read alongside height, period and direction rather than as a standalone surf-quality score.

Observation data source

Learn how SurfHog combines, checks and summarizes observations in the data and methodology notes.

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