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Fanø Bugt wave buoy daily means for Sep 2021

Daily means from the Fanø Bugt wave buoy for Sep 2021, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,432 wave-buoy observations covered all 30 days. Typical wave height was 1.6 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.6–4.5 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 3.7 seconds (10th–90th percentile 2.7–5 seconds). All 4,292 checked values passed quality control. Across 10 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.2 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 4 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.6ft
Mean: 2.3 ft
P10–P90: 0.6 — 4.5 ft
Recorded extremes

0.3 — 10.9 ft

Available for 716 of 717 hourly samples

Mean Observed Wave Period

3.7secs
P10–P90: 2.7 — 5secs
Recorded extremes

2.3 — 7.4secs

Typical Observed Wind

-, -mph
Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 717 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 717 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Septembers

Historical baseline from 14,270 observations across 10 years.

Wave Height
2.3ft
0.9ft below mean
Historical mean 3.215ft
Wave Period
3.7s
0.3s below mean
Historical mean 4s
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 Sep 2021Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)223211111124312321113385312337
Mean average wave height (ft)------------------------------
Mean maximum wave height (ft)33532111113662353221561495236512
Mean average period (s)444333333334443433334465533546
Mean zero-crossing period (s)443333333334443433334455533446
Mean maximum wave period (s)------------------------------
Mean peak wave directionWNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 57%SSEconcentration 86%SWconcentration 47%SWconcentration 81%WSWconcentration 86%Wconcentration 38%SWconcentration 64%SWconcentration 99%WSWconcentration 96%WNWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 97%SSEconcentration 36%Wconcentration 95%NWconcentration 93%ESEconcentration 69%ESEconcentration 92%SEconcentration 57%WSWconcentration 88%Wconcentration 98%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 98%Wconcentration 100%WSWconcentration 65%WSWconcentration 73%WSWconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 97%Wconcentration 98%

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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.

The observation data displayed on this page is from the Danish Coastal Authority wave-measurement network.

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

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