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Royan wave buoy daily means for Dec 2024

Daily means from the Royan wave buoy for Dec 2024, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,342 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 1 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.5–2.1 ft), while mean peak wave period was 11 seconds (10th–90th percentile 4.9–15.4 seconds). 60 of 2,684 checked values (2.2%) were excluded by quality control. Across 4 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 1.9 ft and mean wave period was above the same-month mean of 10 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

1ft
Mean: 1.2 ft
P10–P90: 0.5 — 2.1 ft
Recorded extremes

0.3 — 5.2 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

11secs
P10–P90: 4.9 — 15.4secs
Recorded extremes

1.8 — 22.2secs

Available for 669 of 674 hourly samples

Typical Observed Wind

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

Available for 0 of 674 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

-°C
P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 674 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Decembers

Historical baseline from 5,948 observations across 4 years.

Wave Height
1.2ft
0.7ft below mean
Historical mean 1.87ft
Wave Period
11s
1s above mean
Historical mean 10s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Royan. 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 Royan wave buoy

Royan is part of CANDHIS, France's national in-situ sea-state observatory coordinated by Cerema and its regional partners. The station lies off the mouth of the Gironde, where Atlantic swell meets a wide, shallow and strongly tidal estuary beside the resort coastline of Royan.

Its current data source reports wave height, wave period, wave direction, directional spread and sea temperature.

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Royan wave buoy daily means Dec 2024Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)1111224311101111112222221111111
Mean maximum wave height (ft)2221336421111211123233322221111
Mean peak period (s)1391095757101414121613101161171265141414131514151512
Mean average period (s)6566465555656665455654666777775
Mean period Tm02 (s)4454354444545554344544455556554
Mean peak wave direction-------------------------------
Mean directional spread (°)-------------------------------
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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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 Cerema CANDHIS coastal wave observatory.

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

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