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Onkaparinga River Mouth

Sun 18 Oct 2026 · Australia/Adelaide

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📍 Onkaparinga River Mouth
first quarter · 43%
Weather: Cloudy Wind: N 359° · 16 km/h Swell: 0.3 m @ 12 s W Water: 17.6 °C Pressure: 1022.6 hPa ↓ falling Faces west · Offshore: NE, E, SE · Onshore: SW, W, NW · Forecast wind: cross-shore
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High Fish Activity
▸ Why this score?
At the day's peak · 7:30 pm
Solunar 65 out of 100 Major window
Time of day 70 out of 100 Dusk
Tide 100 out of 100 Moving
Wind 100 out of 100 E 7 km/h
Moon 33 out of 100 first quarter all day
Water temp 78 out of 100 17.6 °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 6:04 am Last light 7:58 pm
Low 12:25 am High 7:09 am Low 1:57 pm High 6:56 pm

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Feeding Windows
Best times to fish based on activity score.
Peak
6:30 pm → 9:00 pm
81
2h 30m
Good
5:30 am → 8:30 am
73
3h
First light
6:04 am
Last light
7:58 pm
Sunrise
6:30 am
Sunset
7:33 pm
Moonrise
11:32 am
Moonset
1:49 am
Low tide
12:25 am
High tide
7:09 am
Low tide
1:57 pm
High tide
6:56 pm
Hourly Wind
High Bite Hours Highlighted
12am
☀️
20°
→︎
E
86°
18 km/h
1am
☀️
20°
→︎
E
77°
17 km/h
2am
☀️
20°
→︎
E
75°
18 km/h
3am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
76°
18 km/h
4am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
76°
18 km/h
5am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
76°
18 km/h
6am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
76°
17 km/h
7am
☀️
19°
→︎
E
70°
16 km/h
8am
☀️
21°
↗︎
NE
55°
15 km/h
9am
☀️
24°
↗︎
NE
31°
15 km/h
10am
☀️
26°
↑︎
N
15°
16 km/h
11am
☀️
27°
↑︎
N
5°
16 km/h
12pm
☁️
28°
↑︎
N
359°
16 km/h
1pm
☁️
28°
↑︎
N
352°
13 km/h
2pm
☁️
28°
↖︎
NW
333°
8 km/h
3pm
☁️
27°
←︎
W
249°
5 km/h
4pm
☁️
26°
↙︎
SW
214°
10 km/h
5pm
☀️
25°
↙︎
SW
243°
3 km/h
6pm
☀️
25°
→︎
E
83°
1 km/h
7pm
☀️
24°
→︎
E
70°
7 km/h
8pm
☀️
24°
↗︎
NE
67°
12 km/h
9pm
☀️
23°
↗︎
NE
66°
17 km/h
10pm
☀️
23°
↗︎
NE
65°
20 km/h
11pm
☀️
23°
↗︎
NE
64°
22 km/h
Hourly Swell
Building 0.1 → 0.5 m W
12am
0.1 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
1am
0.1 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
2am
0.1 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
3am
0.2 m
@ 9 s
←︎
W
Calm
4am
0.2 m
@ 10 s
←︎
W
Calm
5am
0.2 m
@ 11 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
6am
0.2 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
7am
0.2 m
@ 14 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
8am
0.2 m
@ 14 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
9am
0.2 m
@ 13 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
10am
0.3 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
11am
0.3 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
12pm
0.3 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
1pm
0.3 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
2pm
0.3 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
3pm
0.4 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
4pm
0.4 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
5pm
0.4 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
6pm
0.4 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
7pm
0.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
8pm
0.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Calm
ground
9pm
0.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Slight
ground
10pm
0.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Slight
ground
11pm
0.5 m
@ 12 s
←︎
W
Slight
ground
Water Temp (°C)
↗ warming — up 1.0° over the last 3 days
Thu
15 Oct
16.6°
Fri
16 Oct
16.8°
Sat
17 Oct
17.2°
Sun
18 Oct
17.6°
Mon
19 Oct
18.0°
Tue
20 Oct
17.8°
Wed
21 Oct
17.7°
Thu
22 Oct
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Fri
23 Oct
—
Sat
24 Oct
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Wind Map
Wind data (text)

Now: 16 km/h N (359°).

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