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South Pacific · Costa Rica

Wednesday, Sep 23

Where to surf

Dominical6:00 AM–8:00 AM CST

Looks good · Low confidence

3.2–3.2 ft · Offshore waves · not face height

Wind: 2.4 kt · onshore

Other places to check
  • Pavones · 8:00 AM–10:00 AM CST · Looks good
    2.8–2.8 ft · Offshore waves · not face height · 5.1 kt
Why this spot?
  • Light wind should keep the water smoother.

South Pacific spots

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2 spots

South Pacific

2 spots
South Pacific surf forecast
SpotBreaking surfOutlookBest windowWindTideHourly timeline
PavonesWSW offshore model swell · 1.3 ft @ 13s
UnavailableLooks goodLow confidence8:00 AM–10:00 AMN 1 ktcross-shore5 ftrising
DominicalSW offshore model swell · 2.0 ft @ 13s
UnavailableLooks goodLow confidence6:00 AM–8:00 AMSSW 2.4 ktonshore4 ftrising

South Pacific

2 spots

Pavones

Unavailable

Offshore swell: WSW 1.3 ft @ 13s

Looks goodLow confidenceWhen to go8:00 AM–10:00 AM
WindN 1 ktcross-shoreTide5 ftrising
Hourly timeline
UUnavailable2.78.5 ft
UUnavailable3.17.5 ft
UUnavailable2.97 ft
UUnavailable3.26 ft
UUnavailable3.65 ft
UUnavailable2.54.5 ft
UUnavailable1.33.5 ft
UUnavailable1.34 ft
UUnavailable15 ft
UUnavailable2.15.5 ft
UUnavailable5.16.5 ft
UUnavailable6.97.5 ft
UUnavailable7.18.5 ft
UUnavailable8.48 ft
UUnavailable7.67 ft
UUnavailable6.26 ft
UUnavailable6.75 ft
UUnavailable5.94.5 ft
UUnavailable4.43.5 ft
UUnavailable3.83 ft
UUnavailable4.74 ft
UUnavailable4.85 ft
UUnavailable4.36 ft
UUnavailable4.47 ft
Open hourly forecast

Dominical

Unavailable

Offshore swell: SW 2.0 ft @ 13s

Looks goodLow confidenceWhen to go6:00 AM–8:00 AM
WindSSW 2.4 ktonshoreTide4 ftrising
Hourly timeline
UUnavailable17 ft
UUnavailable1.66 ft
UUnavailable0.85.5 ft
UUnavailable1.94.5 ft
UUnavailable1.34 ft
UUnavailable0.13 ft
UUnavailable0.82.5 ft
UUnavailable1.63 ft
UUnavailable2.44 ft
UUnavailable4.14.5 ft
UUnavailable4.75.5 ft
UUnavailable6.36.5 ft
UUnavailable5.37 ft
UUnavailable46.5 ft
UUnavailable4.95.5 ft
UUnavailable4.24.5 ft
UUnavailable2.84 ft
UUnavailable1.23 ft
UUnavailable0.42 ft
UUnavailable0.32.5 ft
UUnavailable0.13 ft
UUnavailable0.44 ft
UUnavailable0.35 ft
UUnavailable0.46 ft
Open hourly forecast

Seven-day outlook

DaySurfBest periodWhereWind
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–9.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0–8.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–9.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0–11 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0–11.5 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0–6 kt varying direction
UnavailableRanking unavailableRegional modelWind 0.5–8 kt varying direction
Forecast sources 4/7 current

Coastal waves, offshore swell, and surf height describe different conditions. Source availability does not measure forecast accuracy.

Report or official forecast

MIO-CIMAR South Pacific regional model

MIO-CIMAR South Pacific regional model; Official MIO-CIMAR regional modeled ocean-wave conditions for South Pacific; API heights are metres, the API direction is a propagation-toward vector converted here to a from-bearing, and these values are neither a station observation nor breaking surf. The provider exposes no issue timestamp; 2026-09-23T00:33:03.819Z is the response retrieval time.
Current

Wave observation

The Buoy API

No current same-exposure wave observation with verified identity, coordinates, units, and timestamp is connected; MIO-CIMAR forecasts are not relabeled as observations.
UnavailableNo source time

Tide prediction

MIO-CIMAR Costa Rica tide predictions

MIO-CIMAR Uvita station 36 · 13.3 km from Dominical; predicted high/low events above MIO mean-low-tide reference, converted to feet. Timestamp is retrieval time; provider issue time is not supplied.
Current

Tide prediction

WorldTides API

Official MIO-CIMAR station predictions are used; heights are referenced to the provider-described mean of low tides from at least a 20-year record.
UnavailableNo source time

Forecast model

Copernicus Marine Global Ocean Waves

No independently authenticated Copernicus product, run, grid, and current response is connected; MIO-CIMAR and Open-Meteo remain separately labeled model evidence.
UnavailableNo source time