Today's window is 11am to noon. Right now it reads fair.
Overhead surf today, faces to 2.6m. This size asks for real experience; be honest about whether you have surfed it before.
modelled · open-meteo
Reading today's conditions…
Condition now · modelled
Surf height
1.5–2.6m
Chest to overhead
Wind
19kph
SW · Cross-shore
Swell · modelled · open-meteo
Wave energy · derived
9.7kW/m
Serious power
nearly all groundswell
Temperature · water measured · air modelled
30°cwater
27°c air · Boardshorts or rashguard
UV 1 (max 9)
Use SPF 50
Today peaks at epic, 1.4–2.6m. Tomorrow fair, 1.2–2.4m.
Surf · today and tomorrow
1.5–2.6m
Now · 7am
Wind · today and tomorrow
17kph
Now · 7am gusts 31
Tide · today and tomorrow · modelled · open-meteo
0.15m
0.14m low in 1hr 5min
Tomorrow: first light 5:34am · last light 6:41pm
About this break
Level
Intermediate
Type
Point
Best swell
E to SW
Sri Lanka's most famous wave, a long right-hand point wrapping the headland at the south end of the bay over rock and sand. Rides run 200 to 400 metres on a good south swell, peeling through fat sections into rippable inside walls. East-coast season runs May to October on the south-west monsoon, best early with offshore wind and a mid to high tide.
Heads up. Long paddle back up the point, rock and sand bottom, crowds in season, rips on bigger days.
Data from just now · refreshes every 30 min
Temp, sun and UV are reliable. Tide, wave height and wind direction are model estimates. Remember that.
Built by Ilya · Senggigi, Lombok
AboutMain Point is working chest to overhead this morning with a long-period south swell wrapping cleanly into the point. The 14-second period is generating real shape and push through the peeling sections, but the cross-shore south-westerly wind is holding steady, keeping the faces defined rather than collapsed. This demands confident, experienced surfers only; the 11am window matters because the wind stays cross-shore through noon before it begins to ease.
By mid-afternoon the wind swings lighter and offshore from the north-west, which would typically clean the faces further, but the swell itself looks to ease into the chest to overhead band by then, so you are trading size for polish. If you miss the morning you are chasing smaller, slower conditions later.
Tomorrow stays in the fair range at chest to overhead, peaking in the morning before the day unfolds. It reads softer than today but still demands experienced footwork and wave knowledge, and the forecast carries the usual offshore uncertainty, so treat the specifics as a guide rather than a lock.