Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands · Pacific/Kwajalein

Kwajalein Pass

A pass on the south-east rim of the atoll. Clean lines on a northerly, wall-to-wall on a big southerly.

17:00 local · 2026-10-05

52% — the read for this hour

Worth the drive52%

Swell

0.92 m

Period

10 s

Swell from

281°

Wind

11.2 m/s

Wind from

253°

Air

28°C

Worth the drive52%

Worth the drive. At Kwajalein Pass on this hour the read is 52%. What earns it: peel speed at 14.7 km/h. What costs it: direction match at 151° off the 72° peel.

19 hours worth driving for today: 05:00, 06:00, 07:00, 08:00, 09:00, 10:00, 11:00, 12:00, 13:00, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00, 17:00, 18:00, 19:00, 20:00, 21:00, 22:00, 23:00.

Tide window for a reef pass: 0.9–2 m of water over the take-off; below 0.60 m it needs the pass covered matters and the reef is exposed.

Kwajalein Pass · 24 hours, local timelive data

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Tide station

Station: Kwajalein Atoll
Datum: MLLW
Range: 1.52 m
Mean: 0.53 m

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Seabed cross-section · Kwajalein PassReef pass — a channel cut through the outer barrier reef

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0.41 m

The dashed arrow is the peel, at c = √(g·depth). More water over the take-off means a faster peel, which is why the same swell behaves differently at low and mid tide.

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Water over take-off: exposed
Break height: 0.49 m
Peel speed: 14.7 km/h
Wave power: 5.5 kW/m

Worth the drive. At Kwajalein Pass on this hour the read is 52%. What earns it: peel speed at 14.7 km/h. What costs it: direction match at 151° off the 72° peel.

Every factor, re-weighted for this tide

Swell power5.5 kW/m · 5.5%
Peel speed14.7 km/h · 20.0%
Wind quality11.2 m/s straight onshore · 0.7%
Tide window1.71 m over the take-off · 18.0%
Direction match151° off the 72° peel · 0.0%
Period cleanliness10.4 s · 8.0%

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Swell power5.5 kW/m · 5.5%
weight 0.220
Peel speed14.7 km/h · 20.0%
weight 0.200
Wind quality11.2 m/s straight onshore · 0.7%
weight 0.200
Tide window1.71 m over the take-off · 18.0%
weight 0.180
Direction match151° off the 72° peel · 0.0%
weight 0.120
Period cleanliness10.4 s · 8.0%
weight 0.080

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Swell power
P = 1/16 · rho · g · Hs² · Tp = 0.628 · 0.92² · 10 = 5.5 kW/m, against a 22 kW/m "serious day" reference.
Peel speed
c = sqrt(g · depth) = sqrt(9.81 · 1.71 m) = 14.7 km/h over a 1.71 m take-off, with 0.49 m standing up. Full marks 8.5–19 km/h: slower is mush, faster than ~25 km/h is unridable.
Wind quality
Wind is straight onshore at 11.2 m/s. Alignment = 1 − (1 + cos 28°)/2 = 0.06; speed envelope at 11.2 m/s = 0.60. Product 0.04.
Tide window
reef pass needs the pass covered. Ideal band 0.9–2 m of water over the take-off; below 0.60 m the reef is exposed.
Direction match
Swell from 281°, this break peels cleanly from 72°. 151° of error: inside 12° is full marks, past 75° the swell wraps the headland and does not arrive.
Period cleanliness
Tp = 10.4 s. Energy organises between 6 s and 9.5 s; beyond 14 s the swell stands up steeper than a shallow reef can hold, so the score is eased off by up to 35%.

Provenance

Every number above came from one of these

liveOpen-Meteo Marine APICC BY 4.0, non-commercial attribution requiredfetched 2026-10-04 20:31 UTC168 hourly rows, swell and wind wave.
liveOpen-Meteo Forecast APICC BY 4.0, non-commercial attribution requiredfetched 2026-10-04 20:31 UTC168 hourly rows, wind and air.
liveNOAA CO-OPS tide predictionsU.S. Government public domainfetched 2026-10-04 20:31 UTC144 hourly predictions, MLLW datum, station 1820000 (Kwajalein Atoll).

Snapshot generated 2026-10-04T20:31:07.811Z. Break orientation, reef slope and take-off depth come from this project's catalogue and are labelled as estimates, not survey data.