Wednesday 4 November Best conditions : Oued Laou 0.2 m · 5 km/h
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Right now Good Calm sea, but stirred up over the past two days: visibility probably reduced.

Is the sea good for fishing at Sidi Kaouki today?

Yes, the sea is good: swell 0.9 m, wind 2 km/h.

Best day this week: Friday 6 November.

Tide times at Sidi Kaouki today

coef. 68
  • Low water 04:56 · 1.6 m
  • High water 11:08 · 3.3 m
  • Low water 17:40 · 1.4 m
  • High water 23:48 · 3.2 m

Neap tides — small range, calmer slack water

Tomorrow : Low water 05:52 · High water 12:03 · Low water 18:26

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

Tide curve, daylight and moon ↓ Which tide to hunt on?
Swell 0.9m 8 s · NW
Period 8s longer = clearer water
Chop 0m wind waves
Wind 2km/h E
Current 0.5m/s moderate
Water 19.5°C

Swell easing — up to 1.6 m over the last two days, 1 m today. The water should clear. Mon 2 : 1.6 m · Tue 3 : 1.5 m

Tide 2.84 m · reading taken at 00:05

The next seven days

Best window : Friday 6 November — 0.8 m swell, 8 km/h wind.

Excellent Good Fair Poor

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 EXC 02:00 EXC 04:00 EXC 06:00 EXC 08:00 EXC 10:00 EXC 12:00 EXC 14:00 EXC 16:00 EXC 18:00 EXC 20:00 EXC 22:00 FAIR
Swell m 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.7 0.8 0.8 0.8 0.8
Wind km/h 3 4 4 5 5 4 9 8 6 5 5 5
Chop m 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Period s 8 8 8 7 7 8 9 11 11 11 11 11
Current m/s 0.6 0.5 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.6 0.4 0.3 0.2 0.5 0.6 0.8
Water °C 19.6 19.6 19.6 19.6 19.6 19.7 19.8 19.9 19.9 19.9 19.9 19.8
Tide m 3.07 2.43 1.7 1.56 2.18 3.05 3.3 2.65 1.71 1.3 1.78 2.73

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 2.1 m · coef. 80
Low water 05:52 · 1.5 m
High water 12:03 · 3.4 m
Low water 18:26 · 1.2 m

Light

First light06:31
Sunrise06:58
Sunset17:47
10 h 49 of daylight

Moon

Waning crescent

20 % lit

Air 16 to 24 °C

Hour by hour — Thursday 5 November

From 5 am to 9 pm.

Hour State Swell Period Chop Wind Current Tide Water
05:00 Excellent 0.7 m 8 s N 0 m 4 km/h E 0.4 1.57 19.6
06:00 Excellent 0.7 m 7 s N 0 m 4 km/h E 0.4 1.49 19.6
07:00 Excellent 0.7 m 7 s N 0 m 5 km/h E 0.4 1.62 19.6
08:00 Excellent 0.7 m 7 s N 0 m 5 km/h E 0.4 1.95 19.6
09:00 Excellent 0.7 m 7 s N 0 m 5 km/h E 0.4 2.4 19.6
10:00 Excellent 0.7 m 7 s N 0 m 4 km/h NE 0.6 2.87 19.7
11:00 Excellent 0.7 m 8 s NW 0 m 4 km/h N 0.6 3.22 19.7
12:00 Excellent 0.7 m 8 s NW 0 m 9 km/h NW 0.4 3.36 19.8
13:00 Excellent 0.7 m 9 s NW 0 m 8 km/h NW 0.4 3.24 19.8
14:00 Excellent 0.7 m 10 s NW 0 m 7 km/h NW 0.3 2.89 19.9
15:00 Excellent 0.7 m 11 s NW 0 m 8 km/h NW 0 2.4 19.9
16:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 6 km/h N 0.2 1.9 19.9
17:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 6 km/h N 0.2 1.51 19.9
18:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 4 km/h N 0.4 1.29 19.9
19:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 5 km/h NE 0.5 1.3 19.9
20:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 5 km/h NE 0.6 1.56 19.9
21:00 Excellent 0.8 m 11 s NW 0 m 4 km/h E 0.6 2 19.9

Elsewhere on the coast

The best conditions right now.

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.