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Live conditions
Wind, swell, chop, barometer and daylight at every destination YouSail covers — read the way a sailor reads them, not the way a weather app shows them.
125 places reporting
The windsock
An airfield sock, drawn from the side. It stirs at about 3 knots and stands straight out at 15, so a limp sock means nothing is happening and a rigid one means at least a working breeze.
The wind barb
The standard chart symbol. The staff points along the bearing the wind is coming from; each half feather is 5 knots, each full feather 10, each solid pennant 50 — add them up. A bare circle is calm.
Sea and swell are separate because they are different things: the wind wave is what today’s breeze is building, the swell is what distant weather sent. A metre of chop at four seconds and a metre of swell at twelve are entirely different afternoons, and adding them into one number hides exactly that.
Steepness is height over wavelength (1.56 × period², the deep-water relation). Past about 1-in-15 a sea is short and steep; near 1-in-7 it breaks.
Gust factor is gust over mean. A settled sea breeze runs about ×1.2; past ×1.4 you reef for the gusts, not the average.
The barometer line is the change over the last three hours, in the Bureau’s own bands. Falling fast means a front before it is visible; rising fast means one has just passed and the wind will be shifty.
The 13-hour track is the solid bar as the mean and the pale cap as the gust, coloured by whether that hour is a day for it. The dashed line is now: the faded bars behind it are what the breeze has already done.
Wind against swell is flagged when the two come from more than 120° apart, because an opposed sea stands up steeper and shorter than its height suggests.
Colour follows whether it is a day for it, not how hard it is blowing. Two knots and forty are both unsailable, so the scale runs from grey through green and back to red. The warning bands — Strong Wind at 26 knots, Gale at 34, Storm Force at 48 — are the Bureau of Meteorology’s.
These readings fall inside the Bureau of Meteorology’s warning bands. They are not warnings — only the Bureau issues those. Check the coastal waters forecast and current marine warnings for the area before you go.
Wind is missing for 33 of 158 destinations. Sea state is missing for 108 of 158 destinations.
3kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
3kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
13kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
10kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
10kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
10kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
4kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
4kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
4kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
3kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
2kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
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No wind reading right now.
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5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
4kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
23kn
Force 6 · Strong breeze
Testing — reef early
22kn
Force 6 · Strong breeze
Testing — reef early
20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
19kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
19kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
17kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
16kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
16kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
15kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
14kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
13kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
13kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
11kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
4kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
3kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
1kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
1kn
Force 0 · Calm
Not enough wind
1kn
Force 0 · Calm
Not enough wind
1kn
Force 0 · Calm
Not enough wind
0kn
Force 0 · Calm
Not enough wind
—kn
No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
17kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
16kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
15kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
15kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
14kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
13kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
—kn
No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
26kn
Force 6 · Strong breeze
Testing — reef early
24kn
Force 6 · Strong breeze
Testing — reef early
15kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
14kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
14kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
13kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
8kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
3kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
21kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
17kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
11kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
10kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
6kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
5kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
4kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
2kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
1kn
Force 1 · Light air
Not enough wind
—kn
No wind reading right now.
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20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
20kn
Force 5 · Fresh breeze
Good sailing
15kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
12kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
11kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
11kn
Force 4 · Moderate breeze
Good sailing
11kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
11kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
9kn
Force 3 · Gentle breeze
Light but sailable
7kn
Force 2 · Light breeze
Light but sailable
—kn
No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.
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No wind reading right now.