West View / CoveSan Andrés
dangerousin the headland's lee today — swell from the quarter/behind
- window
- tide
- shelter
- hazard
- access
Sheltered west face, high-viz reef 0–16 m; verify Seaflower zoning. Coords approx.
Google MapsSan Andrés spearfishing forecast — wind, swell, visibility, tides & live cameras
2.5
💧 Water should clear by Monday (~5d) — tentative (distant windows uncertain)
visibility1m
Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding. 💧 Water should clear by Monday (~5d) — tentative (distant windows uncertain)
Sources: IPMA · NDBC · Copernicus — high confidence · data 12:42
Sources & confidence
- Sources
- IPMA · NDBC buoys · Copernicus Marine
- Method
- Model consensus, read per window
- Freshness
- Re-read every hour, per coast
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
How we score the water
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.
- Swell & wave memory
- Height, period and direction of the swell, plus the wake of recent storms — an old storm still stirs the water, and the engine remembers.
- Wind & gusts
- Speed and gusts, hour by hour — wind speed and an onshore push chop the surface and cut visibility.
- Tide phase
- Timing and range of the tide, calibrated per coast — big spring tides pull the verdict toward caution.
- Water temperature
- Sea-surface temperature — sharply cold water vetoes a green verdict.
- Currents & outflow
- Direction and drift of the current — it pushes you, and it drags turbid coastal water across where you dive.
- Rain runoff & air clarity
- Rain muddies the water inshore through land runoff, while fog and haze cut visibility at the surface.
- Coast shape & exposure
- How the coast faces the swell — a sheltered cove keeps the water clean; an exposed, head-on point takes a penalty.
Safety gates
- Thunderstorm forecast — an instant red, no exceptions.
- An official warning (MeteoAlarm / IPMA) — yellow, or red for the higher ranks.
- Missing input data — a would-be green is capped to yellow rather than overstated.
- Strong disagreement between forecast models — a green day is pulled back to yellow.
- Night hours — forced red; the window is closed after dark.
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
Entry points with coordinates
Seabed relief — promising ground
Surface
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
spearo.app
calmupdated 12:42
San Andrés — solo, off the rocks
don't go · wave 1.8 m (occasionally up to ~3.6 m)
wave 1.8 mwind 37, gusts 48 km/hsurge pounding the rocksvisibility ~1 m
today, best window 12:00–15:00
fish · Visibility 1 m · Water 27.8°C
confidence medium · verdict for the selected day
Whole week — tap a day. is driving swell right now.
Solo risk: carry a float · tell someone your plan and exit time · doubt = don't go. A model-based planner; the call is made on site.
Selected day
Windows, hours
and the day's trends.
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.
Wednesday · today2026-07-22
06:10–18:55 · first quarter
▼ 02:00▲ 07:00▼ 12:00▲ 19:00 · 0.3 m
Hours (06→20)
12
15
18
Day's trends
Tide0.15 m
Wave1.48 m
Wind27 km/h
Water28 °C
fish activity: moonset 00:25 · moderate · moon underfoot 06:50 · high · moonrise 13:27 · moderate · moon overhead 19:20 · high
Conditions window12:00–15:00
don't go fish
Hs 1.80 mperiod 7.6 swind 37→48surge 6.4viz 1 m
1.80 mup to ~3.60 · 70° at an angle
7.6 sswell moderate
37→48gusts 48 km/h
6.4pounding the rocks
0.58m/s
1 mrecent swell
27.8°C5 mm + hood
▲19:00tide turn near
Atmosphere24 kmovercast
moderatemoonrise
- wave 1.8 m (occasionally up to ~3.6 m)
- steep wind-wave — choppy surface, careful on entry
- murky water (~1 m) — fish hard to see
confidence mediumday
The water column
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
What it is
A marine instrument,
go / no-go for solo hunting.
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: 1152 spots across 189 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsThe seabed
Relief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
On the rock
The forecast is the plan.
The call is on the rock.
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.
Entry points
Where to get in
off the rocks.
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 map
SOLO 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.
Surfacing
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Live cameras, map & reference
Cameras · live
Look at the water
right now.
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».
more: San Andrés — isla ↗
Reference
What's in season,
what the law says.
In season now
- lionfish✅ The only clearly-legal speargun target (Res 0549/2022 Art.5 — invasive/exotic). Culling encouraged (Armada + CORALINA). Edible; venomous spines — careful.
- snapper❓ The legality of spearing native species in Colombia is not confirmed in text (grey zone). Res 0549/2022 only authorises the speargun for invasives. Check AUNAP rules; in MPAs/Seaflower — banned.
- king/Spanish mackerel❓ The legality of spearing native species in Colombia is not confirmed in text (grey zone). Res 0549/2022 only authorises the speargun for invasives. Check AUNAP rules; in MPAs/Seaflower — banned.
- jack / trevally❓ The legality of spearing native species in Colombia is not confirmed in text (grey zone). Res 0549/2022 only authorises the speargun for invasives. Check AUNAP rules; in MPAs/Seaflower — banned.
- snook❓ The legality of spearing native species in Colombia is not confirmed in text (grey zone). Res 0549/2022 only authorises the speargun for invasives. Check AUNAP rules; in MPAs/Seaflower — banned.
- great barracuda❓ Native species — grey zone (see AUNAP). Large individuals — ciguatera risk.
- mahi-mahi❓ The legality of spearing native species in Colombia is not confirmed in text (grey zone). Res 0549/2022 only authorises the speargun for invasives. Check AUNAP rules; in MPAs/Seaflower — banned.
- Nassau grouper⚠️ On Colombia's Red List (EN/CR). No formal ban, but please release it.
- goliath grouper⚠️ On Colombia's Red List (EN/CR). No formal ban, but please release it.
Law
- ✓AUNAP sport-fishing permit (personal, non-commercial). KEY: the speargun is legal ONLY for exotic/introduced species → lionfish is the clearly legal target; for native species legality is a grey zone (consult AUNAP). Apnea, one band speargun, no night, no scuba.
- ✓PNN Tayrona (next to Santa Marta) = no-take: fishing banned since 1959, and additionally closed in Feb 2026. Spearing there is prohibited.
- ⛔ 🚫 Parrotfish (Scaridae) and surgeonfish — banned in San Andrés/Seaflower (CORALINA Res 369/2019). Don't shoot.
- ⛔ 🚫 Sharks and rays — directed take banned (Res AUNAP 0744/2012, 190/2013, 01743/2017). Release.
- ⛔ ⚠️ Goliath (E. itajara, CR) and Nassau grouper (E. striatus, EN) — Red List; release.
- ⛔ Queen conch (Lobatus gigas) and spiny lobster (Panulirus) — closed season + size, by hand only, no speargun; conch export banned.
- ⛔ 🚫 In (PNN Tayrona, Corales del Rosario, Malpelo, Gorgona, Utría, Old Providence) and across Seaflower, spearguns are BANNED for tourists.
Rules change. Before heading out, get the AUNAP sport-fishing permit; with a speargun the lionfish is the only clearly legal target — for natives consult AUNAP. PNN Tayrona is no-take.
Safety protocol
- Sets: watch the wave trains ≥15 min before entering; Hmax ≈ 2×Hs, the wash can run 50 m past the foam line. A lull >10 min with period >12 s = a big set «overdue», do NOT enter; enter right after a full set passes and re-check at minute 30.
- Exit FIRST: find your exit AND a backup before entering. On a rocky/boulder shore a 0.5 m rise in swell can make the exit impossible — getting pinned/unable to climb out is the main killer.
- Headland rip: prominent points often have a permanent topographic rip regardless of the model — locate it, enter/exit on the windward side, never swim against it.
- Cold: wetsuit per the SST chip; the first shiver = a metabolic surge and a drop in breath-hold → get out at the first steady shiver. Cap the session at 45–60 min below 15 °C.
- Solo discipline: buoy up; tell someone the spot and exit time; conservative breath-hold (never push it in cold/murky/surfy water); visibility <3 m — don't enter.
- Afternoon wind: on many coasts the wind builds from midday — plan to be out of the water by midday; the chop builds — get out.
- UV 11:00–15:00 (UVI ≥6): sunscreen and cover up on the surface interval.
- Solo is a fundamental risk (hypoxic blackout with no buddy). Any doubt = No-go.
Spearfishing in San Andrés: spots, seasons and rules
San Andrés is a conservative-session destination: buddy, buoy and an exit that still looks easy. San Andrés is a limestone reef island with «optimal clarity»; the country's best Caribbean visibility. The worst sea is from NE; the coast is exposed, so dawn matters; 1 webcam link helps check color and foam. Take only enters the plan when both species and sector are clear. Think lionfish control before a mixed cooler: native species need prior AUNAP confirmation.
TL;DR
- San Andrés: reef island, clear west side and Seaflower zoning.
- A northeast sea opens up this coast, so target dawn; the single webcam shows color and foam.
- In Seaflower and national parks, environmental zoning matters as much as AUNAP; restricted sectors are treated as closed.
Where to look first in San Andrés
Start conservative and keep the exit simple. The west face only settles when a northeast sea is low at dawn, so check the webcam before you commit. Sensitive wildlife areas are not target water.
| Spot | Type | Depth | Level | Access | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| West View / Cove | reef | 0-16m | Intermediate | shore entry, only in small seas | Sheltered west face, high-viz reef 0-16 m; verify Seaflower zoning. Get local clearance first. |
Where does the risk sit in San Andrés?
The risk is wind, access and boundary uncertainty together. Tayrona, Rosario, Seaflower and other listed MPAs are treated as closed if zoning cannot be confirmed. January to August favors the west side, with CORALINA zoning checked first. If one fails, make it a freedive or photo day. San Andres is a limestone reef island with the strongest Caribbean clarity in this set, but every plan runs through Seaflower and CORALINA zoning. The west face, Cove and West View, gives sheltered high-visibility reef in 0-16 m and is the more logical side from January to August. Parrotfish and surgeonfish are banned in San Andres/Seaflower, while sharks and rays are release-only. The clarity can tempt long shots; use it for better identification instead of loosening the rule check. Local operators may know workable water, but their first value is zoning guidance: the reserve is broad, and no-take boundaries must be treated as real even when visibility is perfect.
FAQ
Does San Andrés require an AUNAP check?
Yes. Treat AUNAP confirmation as part of the gear list.
Can native fish be speared in Colombia?
Lionfish yes. Native targets only with current authority confirmation.
What protected areas affect San Andrés?
Tayrona, Rosario, Seaflower and other listed MPAs are treated as closed if zoning cannot be confirmed.
Can you spearfish at night in Colombia?
If the plan is after dark, cancel the speargun part.
What conditions make San Andrés worth trying?
It pays off when a northeast swell is small and early; the coast is exposed, so read color and foam on the webcam first.
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