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Hornby Lighthouse / South Head

Tue 03 Nov 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Hornby Lighthouse / South Head
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Weather: Rainy Wind: NE 43° · 17 km/h Swell: 0.6 m @ 4 s E Water: 19.6 °C Pressure: 1012.3 hPa ↓ falling Faces several ways: wind direction isn't scored here
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Medium Fish Activity
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At the day's peak · 7:30 pm
Solunar 74 out of 100 Major window
Time of day 84 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 55 out of 100 Moving
Wind 63 out of 100 NE 20 km/h
Moon 33 out of 100 last quarter all day
Water temp 91 out of 100 19.6 °C all day
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Activity Forecast

HIGH 70+ MED 50 LOW 30 4a 8a 12p 4p 8p
Day Timeline
Major Minor Tide Twilight
First light 5:26 am Last light 7:50 pm
High 4:30 am Low 10:00 am High 4:20 pm Low 11:05 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
7:00 pm → 9:00 pm
70
2h
Good
4:30 am → 11:00 am
66
6h 30m
Good
11:00 pm → 12:00 am
52
1h
Good
2:00 am → 3:00 am
48
1h
First light
5:26 am
Last light
7:50 pm
Sunrise
5:52 am
Sunset
7:24 pm
Moonrise
2:22 am
Moonset
1:24 pm
High tide
4:30 am
Low tide
10:00 am
High tide
4:20 pm
Low tide
11:05 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☁️
19°
↗︎
NE
26°
14 km/h
1am
☁️
19°
↗︎
NE
23°
12 km/h
2am
☁️
19°
↑︎
N
19°
10 km/h
3am
☁️
19°
↑︎
N
18°
9 km/h
4am
☁️
19°
↑︎
N
19°
10 km/h
5am
☁️
19°
↑︎
N
20°
10 km/h
6am
☁️
18°
↑︎
N
18°
8 km/h
7am
☀️
19°
↗︎
NE
25°
9 km/h
8am
☁️
21°
↗︎
NE
33°
11 km/h
9am
☁️
22°
↗︎
NE
38°
13 km/h
10am
☁️
23°
↗︎
NE
41°
15 km/h
11am
☁️
24°
↗︎
NE
42°
16 km/h
12pm
🌧️
24°
↗︎
NE
43°
17 km/h
1pm
🌧️
24°
↗︎
NE
43°
18 km/h
2pm
🌧️
24°
↗︎
NE
42°
19 km/h
3pm
🌧️
23°
↗︎
NE
41°
20 km/h
4pm
🌧️
23°
↗︎
NE
40°
20 km/h
5pm
🌧️
23°
↗︎
NE
39°
20 km/h
6pm
🌧️
22°
↗︎
NE
36°
20 km/h
7pm
🌧️
22°
↗︎
NE
32°
20 km/h
8pm
🌧️
22°
↗︎
NE
28°
19 km/h
9pm
🌧️
21°
↗︎
NE
23°
19 km/h
10pm
🌧️
21°
↑︎
N
18°
18 km/h
11pm
🌧️
21°
↑︎
N
14°
18 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 0.5 → 1.0 m NE
12am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
1am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
5am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
6am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
7am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
8am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
9am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
10am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
11am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
12pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
1pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
5pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
6pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
7pm
0.8 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
8pm
0.9 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
9pm
0.9 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
10pm
1.0 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
11pm
1.0 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.4° over the last 3 days
Sat
31 Oct
19.2°
Sun
1 Nov
19.2°
Mon
2 Nov
19.6°
Tue
3 Nov
19.6°
Wed
4 Nov
19.6°
Thu
5 Nov
19.6°
Fri
6 Nov
19.5°
Sat
7 Nov
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Sun
8 Nov
—
Mon
9 Nov
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 17 km/h NE (43°).

Wind map data: ECMWF HRES (operational), updated every 6 hours. Not for navigation.