Rustington wave buoy daily averages for Sep 2025
Daily averages from the Rustington wave buoy for Sep 2025, including available wave height, period, direction, wind and sea temperature data.
Average Wave Height
3ft
Observed range: 0.6 — 9.5ft
Average Wave period
3.7secs
Observed range: 2 — 6secs
Average Wave Direction
SSW
Average Water temperature
17.9°C
Observed range: 15.9 — 19.8°C
Compared With Previous Septembers
Historical baseline from 7,187 observations across 9 years.
- Wave Height
- 3ft
- 0.6ft above average
- Historical average 2.4ft
- Wave Period
- 3.7s
- 1s below average
- Historical average 4.7s
- Water Temperature
- 17.9°C
- 5.6°C below average
- Historical average 23.5°C
Chart showing grouped wave observations for Rustington. Use the table on this page for a text version of the same measurements. Click a day to show hourly observations for that day.
Sorry, there is no wave data for Mon, Sep 1, 2025
About Rustington wave buoy
Rustington is a Datawell Directional WaveRider station off the West Sussex coast. First deployed in June 2003, it records waves approaching the shoreline between Littlehampton and Worthing. Available observations include wave height, period and direction, sea temperature and calculated wave power.
Realtime data displayed on this page is from the Regional Coastal Monitoring Programme.