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Manly North Harbour (Fairlight)

Mon 21 Sep 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Manly North Harbour (Fairlight)
waxing gibbous · 69%
Weather: Rainy Wind: SE 146° · 15 km/h Swell: flat Water: 18.3 °C Pressure: 1023.7 hPa → steady
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 5:30 am
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 98 out of 100 Dawn
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 82 out of 100 SW 16 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 83 out of 100 18.3 °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 5:22 am Last light 6:14 pm
High 3:53 am Low 9:04 am High 3:48 pm Low 10:48 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:30 am → 7:00 am
64
2h 30m
Good
4:00 pm → 8:30 pm
62
4h 30m
Good
12:30 pm → 1:00 pm
46
30m
Good
9:00 am → 10:00 am
45
1h
First light
5:22 am
Last light
6:14 pm
Sunrise
5:46 am
Sunset
5:50 pm
Moonrise
12:24 pm
Moonset
2:28 am
High tide
3:53 am
Low tide
9:04 am
High tide
3:48 pm
Low tide
10:48 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
19°
↖︎
NW
304°
15 km/h
1am
☀️
19°
←︎
W
285°
14 km/h
2am
☀️
18°
←︎
W
266°
15 km/h
3am
☀️
18°
←︎
W
250°
16 km/h
4am
☀️
17°
↙︎
SW
239°
17 km/h
5am
☀️
17°
↙︎
SW
229°
16 km/h
6am
☀️
17°
↙︎
SW
216°
15 km/h
7am
☁️
17°
↓︎
S
200°
14 km/h
8am
☁️
18°
↓︎
S
183°
14 km/h
9am
☁️
18°
↓︎
S
168°
14 km/h
10am
☁️
18°
↓︎
S
158°
15 km/h
11am
🌧️
18°
↘︎
SE
152°
15 km/h
12pm
🌧️
18°
↘︎
SE
146°
15 km/h
1pm
🌧️
18°
↘︎
SE
142°
14 km/h
2pm
🌧️
17°
↘︎
SE
137°
13 km/h
3pm
🌧️
17°
↘︎
SE
132°
12 km/h
4pm
🌧️
17°
↘︎
SE
127°
11 km/h
5pm
☁️
17°
↘︎
SE
120°
9 km/h
6pm
☁️
17°
→︎
E
108°
7 km/h
7pm
☁️
17°
→︎
E
86°
5 km/h
8pm
☁️
17°
↗︎
NE
50°
4 km/h
9pm
☁️
17°
↑︎
N
20°
5 km/h
10pm
☁️
16°
↑︎
N
4°
6 km/h
11pm
☁️
16°
↑︎
N
355°
6 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.6 m E
12am
Calm
1am
Calm
2am
Calm
3am
Calm
4am
Calm
5am
Calm
6am
Calm
7am
Calm
8am
Calm
9am
Calm
10am
Calm
11am
Calm
12pm
Calm
1pm
0.4 m
@ 6 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
2pm
0.4 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
3pm
0.4 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
4pm
0.4 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
5pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
6pm
0.5 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
7pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
8pm
0.6 m
@ 3 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
9pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
10pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
11pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.5° over the last 3 days
Fri
18 Sep
17.8°
Sat
19 Sep
17.9°
Sun
20 Sep
18.1°
Mon
21 Sep
18.3°
Tue
22 Sep
18.4°
Wed
23 Sep
18.7°
Thu
24 Sep
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Fri
25 Sep
—
Sat
26 Sep
—
Sun
27 Sep
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 15 km/h SE (146°).

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