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Saint-Jean-de-Luz wave buoy daily means for Dec 2016

Daily means from the Saint-Jean-de-Luz wave buoy for Dec 2016, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.

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Period Summary

Programmatically generated summary. Hog Says

1,431 wave-buoy observations covered all 31 days. Typical wave height was 4.3 ft (10th–90th percentile 0.9–10.3 ft), while mean peak wave period was 13.3 seconds (10th–90th percentile 11.3–15.4 seconds). Typical calculated wave power was approximately 10.8 kW/m (10th–90th percentile 0.4–69.4 kW/m), derived from significant wave height and energy period. 3 of 4,293 checked values (0.1%) were excluded by quality control. Across 3 comparable years, mean wave height was below the same-month mean of 7.6 ft and mean wave period was below the same-month mean of 13.4 seconds.

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

Typical Significant Wave Height

4.3ft
Mean: 5 ft
P10–P90: 0.9 — 10.3 ft
Recorded extremes

0.5 — 13.6 ft

Mean Observed Wave Period

13.3secs
P10–P90: 11.3 — 15.4secs
Recorded extremes

9.2 — 20.3secs

Typical Wave Power

Approximately 10.78kW/m
Mean: 22.33kW/m
P10–P90: 0.4 — 69.35kW/m
Recorded extremes

0.09 — 137.63kW/m

Calculated from significant wave height and energy period.

Typical Observed Wind

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Mean: - mph
P10–P90: - — - mph

Available for 0 of 718 hourly samples

Mean Water Temperature

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P10–P90: - — -°C

Available for 0 of 718 hourly samples

Compared With Previous Decembers

Historical baseline from 3,564 observations across 3 years.

Wave Height
5ft
2.6ft below mean
Historical mean 7.644ft
Wave Period
13.3s
0.1s below mean
Historical mean 13.4s
Water Temperature
–
Not enough comparable data

Chart showing grouped wave observations for Saint-Jean-de-Luz. 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 Saint-Jean-de-Luz wave buoy

Saint-Jean-de-Luz is a CANDHIS directional buoy on the French Basque coast near the Spanish border. Maintained through the Cerema-coordinated national observatory and local partners, it provides offshore context for a naturally embayed and partly protected coast exposed to southern Bay of Biscay swell.

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

Metrics are rows; days run left to right.
Saint-Jean-de-Luz wave buoy daily means Dec 2016Last observation shown
Metric
Mean significant wave height (ft)2221111234644469106488111199875454
Mean maximum wave height (ft)33211214469767913159611121717141412107777
Mean peak period (s)13121212131110111114131213141416151313181416161514131413141413
Mean average period (s)12121071199111113121112131315151212161415151414131313131412
Mean period Tm02 (s)108757779910109101010121110891012121111111010101110
Mean peak wave directionNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 96%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%WNWconcentration 99%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%NWconcentration 100%
Mean directional spread (°)28.026.428.337.132.126.931.723.724.227.226.827.027.729.228.128.629.827.729.331.728.230.028.729.128.426.527.528.727.728.127.4
Mean water temperature(°C)-------------------------------

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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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