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Patonga (Hawkesbury River)

Mon 21 Sep 2026 · Australia/Sydney

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📍 Patonga (Hawkesbury River)
waxing gibbous · 69%
Weather: Sunny Wind: S 160° · 17 km/h Swell: 0.6 m @ 4 s SE Water: 18.7 °C Pressure: 1021.3 hPa ↑ rising
★★★☆☆
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 NW 17 km/h
Moon 67 out of 100 waxing gibbous all day
Water temp 85 out of 100 18.7 °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 3:50 am Low 9:04 am High 3:48 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
4:30 am → 7:00 am
65
2h 30m
Good
5:00 pm → 9:00 pm
63
4h
Good
9:00 am → 10:00 am
46
1h
First light
5:22 am
Last light
6:14 pm
Sunrise
5:46 am
Sunset
5:50 pm
Moonrise
12:25 pm
Moonset
2:27 am
High tide
3:50 am
Low tide
9:04 am
High tide
3:48 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
15°
↖︎
NW
307°
19 km/h
1am
☀️
15°
↖︎
NW
309°
20 km/h
2am
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
310°
21 km/h
3am
☀️
16°
↖︎
NW
310°
21 km/h
4am
☀️
17°
↖︎
NW
309°
20 km/h
5am
☀️
18°
↖︎
NW
305°
17 km/h
6am
☀️
19°
↖︎
NW
294°
12 km/h
7am
☀️
21°
←︎
W
267°
8 km/h
8am
☀️
23°
↙︎
SW
218°
8 km/h
9am
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
188°
11 km/h
10am
☀️
25°
↓︎
S
175°
14 km/h
11am
☀️
25°
↓︎
S
167°
16 km/h
12pm
☀️
24°
↓︎
S
160°
17 km/h
1pm
☀️
22°
↘︎
SE
154°
18 km/h
2pm
☁️
21°
↘︎
SE
148°
18 km/h
3pm
☁️
19°
↘︎
SE
143°
18 km/h
4pm
☁️
18°
↘︎
SE
139°
18 km/h
5pm
☁️
18°
↘︎
SE
137°
17 km/h
6pm
☁️
17°
↘︎
SE
136°
16 km/h
7pm
☁️
17°
↘︎
SE
135°
14 km/h
8pm
☁️
17°
↘︎
SE
134°
11 km/h
9pm
☁️
16°
↘︎
SE
131°
9 km/h
10pm
☁️
16°
↘︎
SE
126°
8 km/h
11pm
☁️
16°
↘︎
SE
117°
7 km/h
Hourly Swell
Steady ~0.3 m SE
12am
Calm
1am
Calm
2am
Calm
3am
Calm
4am
Calm
5am
0.1 m
@ 7 s
→︎
E
Calm
chop
6am
0.1 m
@ 8 s
↘︎
SE
Calm
7am
0.1 m
@ 9 s
↓︎
S
Calm
8am
0.2 m
@ 7 s
↓︎
S
Calm
chop
9am
Calm
10am
Calm
11am
0.5 m
@ 4 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
12pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
1pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
2pm
0.6 m
@ 6 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
3pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
4pm
0.6 m
@ 8 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
5pm
0.6 m
@ 7 s
↓︎
S
Slight
chop
6pm
0.6 m
@ 5 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
7pm
0.6 m
@ 4 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
8pm
0.5 m
@ 5 s
↘︎
SE
Slight
chop
9pm
0.4 m
@ 6 s
↓︎
S
Calm
chop
10pm
0.4 m
@ 7 s
↓︎
S
Calm
chop
11pm
0.3 m
@ 8 s
↓︎
S
Calm
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 0.5° over the last 3 days
Fri
18 Sep
18.2°
Sat
19 Sep
18.4°
Sun
20 Sep
18.5°
Mon
21 Sep
18.7°
Tue
22 Sep
18.8°
Wed
23 Sep
18.9°
Thu
24 Sep
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Fri
25 Sep
—
Sat
26 Sep
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Sun
27 Sep
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 17 km/h S (160°).

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