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Hornby Lighthouse / South Head

Thu 05 Nov 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Hornby Lighthouse / South Head
waning crescent · 25%
Weather: Sunny Wind: W 265° · 16 km/h Swell: 0.6 m @ 5 s E Water: 19.2 °C Pressure: 1003.6 hPa → steady Faces several ways: wind direction isn't scored here
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Medium Fish Activity
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▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:30 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 90 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 28 out of 100 Turning
Wind 91 out of 100 NW 11 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waning crescent all day
Water temp 88 out of 100 19.2 °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 5:24 am Last light 7:52 pm
High 6:13 am Low 12:15 pm High 6:12 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
5:00 am → 7:00 am
62
2h
Good
6:30 pm → 10:30 pm
61
4h
Good
9:00 am → 10:30 am
53
1h 30m
Good
12:30 pm → 1:00 pm
46
30m
First light
5:24 am
Last light
7:52 pm
Sunrise
5:51 am
Sunset
7:26 pm
Moonrise
3:21 am
Moonset
3:31 pm
High tide
6:13 am
Low tide
12:15 pm
High tide
6:12 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
19°
↗︎
NE
27°
11 km/h
1am
☀️
18°
↑︎
N
17°
10 km/h
2am
☁️
18°
↑︎
N
5°
10 km/h
3am
☁️
18°
↑︎
N
353°
10 km/h
4am
☁️
17°
↑︎
N
341°
10 km/h
5am
☁️
18°
↖︎
NW
329°
11 km/h
6am
🌧️
18°
↖︎
NW
317°
11 km/h
7am
🌧️
19°
↖︎
NW
303°
11 km/h
8am
🌧️
20°
←︎
W
290°
11 km/h
9am
🌧️
21°
←︎
W
279°
12 km/h
10am
🌧️
22°
←︎
W
272°
14 km/h
11am
🌧️
23°
←︎
W
266°
15 km/h
12pm
☀️
23°
←︎
W
265°
16 km/h
1pm
☀️
24°
←︎
W
265°
16 km/h
2pm
☁️
23°
←︎
W
266°
17 km/h
3pm
☁️
23°
←︎
W
267°
17 km/h
4pm
☁️
23°
←︎
W
268°
17 km/h
5pm
☁️
22°
←︎
W
268°
17 km/h
6pm
🌧️
22°
←︎
W
267°
17 km/h
7pm
🌧️
21°
←︎
W
266°
17 km/h
8pm
🌧️
20°
←︎
W
265°
17 km/h
9pm
🌧️
18°
←︎
W
263°
17 km/h
10pm
🌧️
18°
←︎
W
260°
16 km/h
11pm
🌧️
17°
←︎
W
256°
16 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.3 m E
12am
Calm
1am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
5am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
6am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
7am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
8am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
9am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↗︎
NE
Slight
chop
10am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
11am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
12pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
1pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3pm
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4pm
0.5 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
5pm
Calm
6pm
Calm
7pm
Calm
8pm
0.3 m
@ 6 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
9pm
0.3 m
@ 6 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
10pm
0.3 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
11pm
0.3 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 19.2°
Mon
2 Nov
19.5°
Tue
3 Nov
19.4°
Wed
4 Nov
19.5°
Thu
5 Nov
19.2°
Fri
6 Nov
19.3°
Sat
7 Nov
19.3°
Sun
8 Nov
—
Mon
9 Nov
—
Tue
10 Nov
—
Wed
11 Nov
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 16 km/h W (265°).

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