Today — right on the edge — wave, wind and surge pounding.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
Safety gates
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Noosa Heads, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
What's missing? Tell us what you'd like to see — new spots, species, data or features. We read everything.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 3016 spots across 406 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor mapDevils Kitchen is a 60 m boulder beach in the basalt south of Alexandria Bay, with a permanent rip; the beach register calls this exposed rock hazardous for rock fishing. The long walk in keeps it lightly fished; a guide lists bream, flathead and tailor from its gutters. Rock and sand, around 2 to 8.5 m by bathymetry.
Google MapsThe eastern rocks of Little Cove, a 100 m pocket beach round Johnson Point, below the national park and usually sheltered, with rock pools. A Sunshine Coast dive shop calls the reef in these coves limited and worth it only in small swell. Rock and sand, around 1 to 4 m by bathymetry.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Check the cam BEFORE you leave. Foam, brown/green murk, or waves washing the entry rocks = No-go. At night/in fog the cam is useless — treat it as «unknown», NOT «green».
Rules as of now — 25.10.2026 14:31 (Australia/Brisbane)
Noosa Heads has rock entry points such as Alexandria Bay — Devils Kitchen and Little Cove — eastern rocks. The rarest thing on the Queensland coast: a beach that faces north. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Winter (May–Sep) — dry and clear; summer murky after rain, stingers.
Summer 24–27 °C — 2 mm suit; winter 20–22 °C — 3 mm. Warm, murky after rain.
Moderate: murky after rain, sharks present; fish the dry season.
Noosa Heads is in QLD. No — Queensland has no general recreational licence, but the Great Barrier Reef zoning rules: spearing is allowed in General Use and Habitat Protection zones and banned in the green and pink ones. Spearfishing on scuba is banned everywhere, rock lobster may never be speared, and marine-park sanctuary/green zones are no-take. See the guide for the state-by-state detail.
All 461 spots → · Region: QLD South-East · spearo.app — All countries
Rules change and vary BY STATE. Before heading out, check with your state's fisheries (NSW DPI, Fisheries QLD, VFA, DPIRD WA, PIRSA, NRE Tas, NT Fisheries) and the marine-park zoning map.
