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Salinas – Chipipe

Sand bottomBeginnerFaces NE · 43°Draft metadata

A sandy beach beside the Salinas Yacht Club with very calm water and small waves, ideal for family swimming. It gets very crowded in high season and on holidays.

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Meteogram

Score, swells, period, wind (arrows: green offshore, amber cross, red onshore) and tide on one time axis. Tap to pick the hour.

Tide · Tue 6

INOCAR La Libertad (INO071). The dashed line is Open-Meteo's modelled tide at the wave point, shifted to the same datum (MLWS). If they disagree, trust INOCAR.

INOCAR (official prediction)Open-Meteo (model)m above MLWS

Do the models agree? · Tue 6

The same day scored with every model combo. When rows disagree, the forecast is uncertain; your field log will tell which one is right near the coast.

Models agree (daily peaks between 96 and 99).

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MF-Wave · Météo-France · 8 km · split swell trains

GFS-Wave · NOAA · 25 km · split swell trains

ECMWF WAM · ECMWF · 25 km · total sea only

Hourly table · Tue 6

Hour	Beach	Swell 1	Swell 2	Wind	Tide	Rain	Why
00:00	0	0.7 m 11s SW	0.5 m 12s SW	13 S g26	2.0 turning	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
01:00	0	0.7 m 11s SW	0.5 m 12s SW	13 S g26	1.9	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
02:00	0	0.8 m 11s SW	0.6 m 10s SW	12 S g26	1.7	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
03:00	0	0.8 m 11s SW	0.6 m 8s SW	11 S g26	1.4	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
04:00	0	0.9 m 12s SW	0.7 m 7s SW	10 SW g24	1.1	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
05:00	0	0.9 m 12s SW	0.7 m 6s SW	10 SW g20	0.8	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
06:00	98	0.8 m 12s SW	0.7 m 7s SW	10 SW g19	0.8 turning	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 10 km/h
07:00	96	0.8 m 11s SW	0.8 m 7s SW	10 SW g25	0.8 turning	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 10 km/h
08:00	98	0.8 m 11s SW	0.8 m 7s SW	9 SW g25	1.0	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 9 km/h
09:00	96	0.8 m 10s SW	0.8 m 7s SW	8 SW g25	1.3	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 8 km/h
10:00	93	0.8 m 10s SW	0.8 m 8s SW	9 W g27	1.6	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 9 km/h
11:00	92	0.8 m 10s SW	0.6 m 10s SW	13 W g35	1.8	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 13 km/h
12:00	91	0.8 m 10s SW	0.5 m 14s SW	14 W g37	1.9 turning	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
13:00	90	0.8 m 10s SW	0.4 m 16s SW	16 W g42	1.8 turning	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
14:00	88	0.8 m 10s SW	0.4 m 17s SW	17 W g44	1.6	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
15:00	89	0.8 m 10s SW	0.4 m 17s SW	16 W g44	1.4	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
16:00	90	0.8 m 11s SW	0.4 m 17s SW	14 W g41	1.0	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
17:00	91	0.8 m 11s SW	0.4 m 17s SW	15 SW g39	0.7	0.0	Calm water at the shore · No rain
18:00	32	0.8 m 11s SW	0.4 m 16s SW	13 SW g37	0.6 turning	0.0	Calm water at the shore · Wind 13 km/h
19:00	0	0.8 m 11s SW	0.4 m 16s SW	12 SW g32	0.6 turning	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
20:00	0	0.8 m 10s SW	0.5 m 16s SW	13 SW g30	0.7	0.3	Night time · Calm water at the shore
21:00	0	0.8 m 10s SW	0.5 m 16s SW	13 SW g32	1.0	0.1	Night time · Calm water at the shore
22:00	0	0.8 m 10s SW	0.5 m 16s SW	11 SW g31	1.4	0.0	Night time · Calm water at the shore
23:00	0	0.8 m 10s SW	0.5 m 15s SW	12 SW g29	1.8	0.2	Night time · Calm water at the shore

Field log

Log what you actually saw (or what surfers reported). We store what every model said for that hour, to measure which one tracks reality.

Tue 6 · 06:00 · Forecast 98 (MF-Wave × Best match) · pick another hour in the map above

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Faces43° NE

Window from325° NW

Window to10° N

Ideal size min0.3 m

Ideal size max0.8 m

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