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Lake Illawarra Entrance (Windang)

Mon 21 Sep 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Lake Illawarra Entrance (Windang)
waxing gibbous · 69%
Weather: Rainy Wind: SE 152° · 16 km/h Swell: 0.4 m @ 9 s S Water: 18.0 °C Pressure: 1021.4 hPa → steady
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Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:00 pm
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 88 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 55 out of 100 Moving
Wind 100 out of 100 SE 8 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 81 out of 100 18.0 °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 5:23 am Last light 6:16 pm
High 3:50 am Low 9:13 am High 3:46 pm Low 10:45 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:00 pm → 9:00 pm
61
5h
Good
5:00 am → 7:00 am
59
2h
Good
12:30 pm → 1:00 pm
45
30m
First light
5:23 am
Last light
6:16 pm
Sunrise
5:48 am
Sunset
5:52 pm
Moonrise
12:24 pm
Moonset
2:32 am
High tide
3:50 am
Low tide
9:13 am
High tide
3:46 pm
Low tide
10:45 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
17°
↖︎
NW
294°
2 km/h
1am
☀️
16°
→︎
E
90°
1 km/h
2am
☀️
16°
→︎
E
90°
1 km/h
3am
☀️
16°
↗︎
NE
59°
1 km/h
4am
☀️
15°
↗︎
NE
31°
1 km/h
5am
☀️
16°
↓︎
S
169°
3 km/h
6am
☀️
17°
↓︎
S
164°
6 km/h
7am
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
163°
10 km/h
8am
☀️
19°
↓︎
S
161°
14 km/h
9am
☀️
20°
↓︎
S
160°
16 km/h
10am
☁️
20°
↓︎
S
159°
18 km/h
11am
🌧️
20°
↘︎
SE
156°
18 km/h
12pm
🌧️
20°
↘︎
SE
152°
16 km/h
1pm
🌧️
20°
↘︎
SE
145°
14 km/h
2pm
🌧️
19°
↘︎
SE
137°
12 km/h
3pm
🌧️
19°
↘︎
SE
128°
11 km/h
4pm
🌧️
19°
↘︎
SE
124°
10 km/h
5pm
☁️
18°
↘︎
SE
127°
9 km/h
6pm
☁️
18°
↘︎
SE
139°
8 km/h
7pm
☁️
17°
↘︎
SE
155°
7 km/h
8pm
☁️
17°
↓︎
S
173°
8 km/h
9pm
☁️
17°
↓︎
S
185°
9 km/h
10pm
☁️
16°
↓︎
S
190°
10 km/h
11pm
🌧️
16°
↓︎
S
191°
11 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.7 m S
12am
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
1am
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
2am
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
3am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
4am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
5am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
6am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
7am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
8am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
9am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
10am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
11am
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
12pm
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
1pm
0.4 m
@ 8 s
↓︎
S
Calm
2pm
0.5 m
@ 7 s
↓︎
S
Calm
chop
3pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
4pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
5pm
0.7 m
@ 4 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
6pm
0.7 m
@ 4 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
7pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
8pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
9pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
10pm
0.7 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
11pm
0.7 m
@ 4 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 18.0°
Fri
18 Sep
17.9°
Sat
19 Sep
18.0°
Sun
20 Sep
18.1°
Mon
21 Sep
18.0°
Tue
22 Sep
18.0°
Wed
23 Sep
18.1°
Thu
24 Sep
18.1°
Fri
25 Sep
—
Sat
26 Sep
—
Sun
27 Sep
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 16 km/h SE (152°).

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