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Horseshoe Beach / Newcastle Harbour

Tue 15 Sep 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Horseshoe Beach / Newcastle Harbour
waxing crescent · 11%
Weather: Sunny Wind: S 161° · 17 km/h Swell: 0.6 m @ 4 s E Water: 19.4 °C Pressure: 1019.0 hPa ↓ falling
★★★☆☆
Medium Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 6:00 pm
Solunar 0 out of 100 Between windows
Time of day 99 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 100 out of 100 SE 6 km/h
Moon 0 out of 100 waxing crescent all day
Water temp 90 out of 100 19.4 °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 5:28 am Last light 6:08 pm
Low 3:39 am High 10:09 am Low 4:30 pm High 10:19 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
2:00 pm → 7:00 pm
69
5h
Good
4:30 am → 6:30 am
58
2h
First light
5:28 am
Last light
6:08 pm
Sunrise
5:52 am
Sunset
5:44 pm
Moonrise
7:43 am
Moonset
9:56 pm
Low tide
3:39 am
High tide
10:09 am
Low tide
4:30 pm
High tide
10:19 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
17°
↑︎
N
4°
11 km/h
1am
☀️
17°
↑︎
N
346°
10 km/h
2am
☀️
16°
↑︎
N
344°
8 km/h
3am
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
326°
11 km/h
4am
☀️
17°
↖︎
NW
315°
14 km/h
5am
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
304°
12 km/h
6am
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
313°
14 km/h
7am
☀️
17°
↖︎
NW
316°
14 km/h
8am
☀️
20°
↖︎
NW
310°
12 km/h
9am
☀️
22°
←︎
W
270°
9 km/h
10am
☀️
22°
↓︎
S
195°
7 km/h
11am
☀️
21°
↓︎
S
162°
14 km/h
12pm
☀️
21°
↓︎
S
161°
17 km/h
1pm
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
148°
17 km/h
2pm
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
148°
16 km/h
3pm
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
143°
14 km/h
4pm
☀️
20°
↘︎
SE
145°
14 km/h
5pm
☀️
19°
↘︎
SE
139°
12 km/h
6pm
☀️
18°
↘︎
SE
148°
6 km/h
7pm
☀️
18°
↓︎
S
185°
12 km/h
8pm
🌧️
18°
↓︎
S
197°
12 km/h
9pm
☀️
18°
↙︎
SW
221°
15 km/h
10pm
🌧️
16°
↓︎
S
186°
33 km/h
11pm
🌧️
16°
↓︎
S
188°
31 km/h
Hourly Swell
Easing 0.8 → 0.3 m E
12am
0.8 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
1am
0.8 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2am
0.8 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3am
0.8 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
4am
0.8 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
5am
0.8 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
6am
0.8 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
7am
0.7 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
8am
0.7 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
9am
0.7 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
10am
0.6 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
11am
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
12pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
1pm
0.5 m
@ 5 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
2pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
→︎
E
Slight
chop
3pm
0.5 m
@ 8 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
4pm
0.5 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
5pm
0.5 m
@ 8 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
6pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
7pm
0.7 m
@ 4 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
8pm
0.5 m
@ 6 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
9pm
0.4 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
10pm
0.3 m
@ 12 s
↓︎
S
Calm
ground
11pm
0.3 m
@ 11 s
↘︎
SE
Calm
ground
Water Temp (°C)
→ steady around 19.4°
Sat
12 Sep
19.3°
Sun
13 Sep
19.3°
Mon
14 Sep
19.4°
Tue
15 Sep
19.4°
Wed
16 Sep
19.3°
Thu
17 Sep
19.0°
Fri
18 Sep
18.9°
Sat
19 Sep
19.0°
Sun
20 Sep
19.1°
Mon
21 Sep
19.1°
Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 17 km/h S (161°).

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