Wednesday 4 November Best conditions : Oued Laou 0.2 m · 5 km/h
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Tides and sea conditions at Cape Spartel

North Atlantic · 35.80°N 5.97°W

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Mediterranean Saïdia 0.5 m Cap de l’Eau (Ras El Ma) 0.5 m Nador 0.4 m Cape Three Forks 0.4 m Al Hoceima 0.3 m Cala Iris 0.3 m Jebha 0.3 m Oued Laou 0.2 m Martil 0.2 m M'diq 0.2 m Fnideq 0.2 m Ksar Sghir 0.3 m Tangier 0.3 m
North Atlantic Cape Spartel 0.4 m Asilah 0.4 m Larache 0.5 m Moulay Bousselham 0.5 m Mehdia 0.7 m Rabat 0.8 m Temara 0.7 m Skhirat 0.8 m Bouznika 0.8 m Mohammedia 0.8 m Casablanca 0.8 m Dar Bouazza 0.9 m
Central Atlantic El Jadida 0.9 m Sidi Abed 1 m Oualidia 1 m Cape Beddouza 1 m Safi 0.9 m Souira Kdima 0.9 m Essaouira 1 m Sidi Kaouki 0.9 m
South & Sahara Imsouane 1 m Tamri 1 m Cape Ghir 1 m Taghazout 0.8 m Anza 0.7 m Agadir 0.7 m Tifnit 0.9 m Sidi Rbat 0.9 m Aglou 0.9 m Mirleft 0.9 m Legzira 0.8 m Sidi Ifni 0.8 m Tan-Tan 0.7 m Akhfennir 0.9 m Tarfaya 0.6 m Foum El Oued 0.5 m Boujdour 0.6 m Dakhla 0.7 m
Right now Fair Sea getting up, or a steady wind. Visibility uncertain. Strong current — significant drift.

Is the sea good for fishing at Cape Spartel today?

Fair: you can go out, carefully — swell 0.4 m, wind 7 km/h.

Best day this week: Friday 6 November.

Tide times at Cape Spartel today

coef. 87
  • Low water 05:40 · 0.7 m
  • High water 11:48 · 2.3 m
  • Low water 18:29 · 0.5 m

Neap tides — small range, calmer slack water

Tomorrow : High water 00:26 · Low water 06:39 · High water 12:43 · Low water 19:10

Times and heights matched to SHOM's official predictions for the port of Tanger. Heights above chart datum.

Tide curve, daylight and moon ↓ Which tide to hunt on?
Swell 0.4m 9 s · W
Period 9s longer = clearer water
Chop 0.1m wind waves
Wind 7km/h S
Current 1.7m/s strong
Water 19.4°C

Swell easing — up to 0.9 m over the last two days, 0.6 m today. The water should clear. Mon 2 : 0.9 m · Tue 3 : 0.8 m

Tide 1.88 m · reading taken at 00:05

The next seven days

Best window : Friday 6 November — 0.5 m swell, 10 km/h wind.

Excellent Good Fair Poor
Wed 4 0.6 m 12 s 24 km/h Thu 5 0.7 m 11 s 21 km/h Fri 6 0.5 m 10 s 10 km/h Sat 7 0.4 m 9 s 18 km/h Sun 8 0.8 m 7 s 25 km/h Mon 9 2.2 m 8 s 43 km/h Tue 10 3.3 m 9 s 46 km/h

Each day is judged on its worst moment, not on its average. Bars share one scale: 0 to 3.0 m. Reliability drops off sharply beyond three days.

The day at a glance — Thursday 5 November

Twenty-four hours in blocks of two. Swell and wind carry the colour: white when there is nothing, tinted as soon as it builds. The header gives the overall verdict.

Hour 00:00 FAIR 02:00 FAIR 04:00 FAIR 06:00 GOOD 08:00 FAIR 10:00 FAIR 12:00 FAIR 14:00 FAIR 16:00 FAIR 18:00 FAIR 20:00 FAIR 22:00 FAIR
Swell m 0.6 0.6 0.7 0.6 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.5
Wind km/h 16 14 17 17 18 21 18 16 13 5 3 4
Chop m 0.3 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.3 0.1 0 0 0
Period s 5 5 4 4 4 5 8 9 9 11 11 10
Current m/s 1.9 2.3 1.9 0.5 0.8 1.3 3.6 4.2 3.7 1.5 1.5 1.3
Water °C 19.2 19.2 19.2 19.1 19.1 19 19 19.1 19.3 19.4 19.5 19.5
Tide m 2.05 1.63 0.9 0.53 0.85 1.66 2.2 1.83 0.98 0.39 0.52 1.32

Swell, chop, wind and current: the block’s highest value. Period, water and tide: the average. Colour scales match Windy’s: white at rest, then cyan and green for wind, lavender and pink for swell, through to red and purple.

Planning the session — Thursday 5 November

Tides, light and moon of the day, to pick the hour.

Tides

Range 1.9 m · coef. 92
High water 00:26 · 2.1 m
Low water 06:39 · 0.5 m
High water 12:43 · 2.3 m
Low water 19:10 · 0.3 m

Light

First light06:22
Sunrise06:49
Sunset17:24
10 h 35 of daylight

Moon

Waning crescent

20 % lit

Air 16 to 20 °C

Hour by hour — Thursday 5 November

From 5 am to 9 pm.

Hour State Swell Period Chop Wind Current Tide Water
05:00 Fair 0.6 m 4 s SW 0.3 m 16 km/h S 1 0.74 19.1
06:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s SW 0.4 m 17 km/h S 0.2 0.54 19.1
07:00 Good 0.6 m 4 s SW 0.4 m 16 km/h S 0.5 0.52 19.1
08:00 Fair 0.5 m 4 s SW 0.4 m 15 km/h S 0.8 0.67 19.1
09:00 Fair 0.5 m 4 s SW 0.4 m 18 km/h SW 0.8 1.02 19
10:00 Fair 0.5 m 4 s W 0.5 m 21 km/h SW 0.5 1.45 19
11:00 Fair 0.5 m 5 s W 0.4 m 19 km/h SW 1.3 1.87 19
12:00 Fair 0.5 m 7 s W 0.4 m 18 km/h SW 2.6 2.17 19
13:00 Fair 0.5 m 9 s W 0.4 m 16 km/h SW 3.6 2.23 19
14:00 Fair 0.5 m 9 s W 0.3 m 16 km/h SW 4.2 2.02 19.1
15:00 Fair 0.5 m 8 s W 0.2 m 15 km/h SW 4.2 1.64 19.1
16:00 Fair 0.5 m 8 s W 0.1 m 13 km/h SW 3.7 1.19 19.2
17:00 Fair 0.5 m 9 s W 0.1 m 8 km/h SW 2.7 0.76 19.3
18:00 Fair 0.5 m 10 s W 0 m 5 km/h W 1.5 0.46 19.3
19:00 Excellent 0.5 m 11 s NW 0 m 3 km/h W 0.6 0.31 19.4
20:00 Fair 0.5 m 11 s NW 0 m 1 km/h S 1.1 0.38 19.4
21:00 Fair 0.5 m 11 s NW 0 m 3 km/h SE 1.5 0.66 19.5

Elsewhere on the coast

The best conditions right now.

Oued Laou 0.2 m Excellent Martil 0.2 m Excellent M'diq 0.2 m Excellent Fnideq 0.2 m Excellent Cala Iris 0.3 m Excellent Jebha 0.3 m Excellent

How to read these numbers

Swell
Ground swell, significant height: the average of the highest third of the waves. The biggest ones run well above it.
Period
The time between two crests. Long period = clean, readable swell; short = confused sea.
Chop
The waves raised by the local wind. This is what stirs the bottom and destroys visibility, far more than the swell does.
Current
Beyond 0.8 m/s the drift becomes serious, even on a flat sea.
Tide
Height above chart datum, as in tide tables, matched to SHOM's predictions for the nearest reference port. In the Mediterranean the tide is only a few tens of centimetres: times are indicative.
Visibility
Not measured, anywhere. It is inferred from chop, swell and wind — judge it on the spot.

DWD, Météo-France and Copernicus Marine models via Open-Meteo. Roughly 9 km resolution: two neighbouring locations can share the same value. Refreshed every 30 minutes.