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Fanø Bugt wave buoy daily means for Sep 2022

Daily means from the Fanø Bugt wave buoy for Sep 2022, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,145 wave-buoy observations covered 25 of 30 days (83%). Typical wave height was 1.9 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.8–4 ft), while mean average of more than one wave period type was 11.1 seconds (10th–90th percentile 3.3–17 seconds). 2 of 2,777 checked values (0.1%) were excluded by quality control. Across 11 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 3.1 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 4 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1.9ft
Mean: 2.3 ft
P10–P90: 0.8 — 4 ft
Recorded extremes

0.1 — 9.3 ft

Available for 249 of 577 hourly samples

Mean Observed Wave Period

11.1secs
P10–P90: 3.3 — 17secs
Recorded extremes

2.5 — 28.8secs

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 577 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 577 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Septembers

Historical baseline from 15,702 observations across 11 years.

Wave Height
2.3ft
0.8ft below mean
Historical mean 3.15ft
Wave Period
11.1s
7.1s above 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 2022Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)-----70------------012322QC rejected3222
Mean average wave height (ft)------------------------------
Mean maximum wave height (ft)-----170------------013534105334
Mean average period (s)-----2921------------94343455534
Mean zero-crossing period (s)-----1715161717171717171617171616104343355533
Mean maximum wave period (s)------------------------------
Mean peak wave direction-----Variableconcentration 13%Variableconcentration 15%Variableconcentration 7%Variableconcentration 25%Variableconcentration 14%Variableconcentration 4%Variableconcentration 19%Variableconcentration 6%Variableconcentration 5%Variableconcentration 6%Variableconcentration 13%Variableconcentration 11%Variableconcentration 7%Variableconcentration 28%Variableconcentration 24%WNWconcentration 60%SSWconcentration 79%WSWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 95%WNWconcentration 98%WSWconcentration 99%Wconcentration 99%Wconcentration 100%NNWconcentration 79%Wconcentration 67%

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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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