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Tip of the moment
Moorea-Maiao · Polynésie française
Today's take
Window: 06:00–11:00, with caution — read the safety panel before you go.
Water temperature
26.3 °C
Verdict · Tomorrow
Pleasant
Underwater visibility
~32.5 m
satellite reading from 2 days ago
When to go
Good from 06:00 to 11:00.
Then from 12:00 to 13:00.
Then from 15:00 to 18:00.
Pin colours:swimmablecautionnot advisedconditions not loaded yet
Forecasts come from ~8 km resolution models: very local effects (a sheltering pier, a lagoon pass) are not captured.
Sea-state data comes from a marine model cell about 7.3 km from this point — local nearshore conditions can differ.
Wave heights are significant heights: individual waves up to 2× this height still occur.
Four wave models are compared for this point: EWAM, GWAM, Météo-France WAM and ECMWF WAM.
Tide times derived from modelled sea level (± a few tens of minutes) — not official tide tables.
Missing data is shown as missing — never silently estimated.
Weather and marine data: Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0), wave models from the Deutscher Wetterdienst (CC BY 4.0). Forecasts are not guarantees. · Data fetched at 04:09 UTC
Water clarity generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.
Windows, comfort score and verdicts are computed by oswim from this data — modified values, not the institutes' raw figures.
min 0 · max 26 km/h · south-east sector · gusts 60 km/h
No thunderstorms forecast.
World Triathlon: stop on lightning
Offshore wind · 0 – 26 km/h
No wind-driven offshore drift.
RNLI / lifeguard warning · measured drift (coastguard): 2–4 % of the wind · Beaufort scale
Visibility · 49 – 57 km
Good visibility.
Loss of bearings and collision risk
Post-rain pollution · 0 mm over 24 h
When it rains hard, runoff from roads and fields and sewer overflows carry bacteria out to sea. Nothing significant has fallen in the last 24 hours.
Official sampling is weekly at best; between two samples, recent rain is the recognized warning signal (EEA)
Jellyfish: no recent info. If you're there, tell us what you see — even “none” helps the next swimmer.
Depth as you head out: 25 m → 4.0 m · 50 m → 4.0 m · 100 m → 4.0 m · 200 m → 117.0 m · 400 m → 117.0 m · 800 m → 79.0 m
Depths from the global GEBCO grid (~450 m cells), stated without the tide: coarser than along European coasts, they say how it drops away offshore rather than what is under your feet. Never a navigation aid.
Nearest lifeguarded beach: (24.8 km).
Lagoon pass nearby
Passes concentrate very strong outflowing currents, especially on a falling tide or after big swell. Stay well clear of the pass axis: no data predicts these currents — local caution rules.
Stonefish
Highly venomous and invisible on coral or sandy bottoms. Never walk barefoot on the reef flat; thick booties are essential.
Shark presence (information)
Sharks are regularly observed in this area. The risk for a swimmer remains statistically very low — most incidents involve spearfishing. Avoid dawn, dusk and murky water, and don't swim near anglers.
Public access near Moorea airport. Unsupervised.
Worth knowing
The Temae lagoon shelters rich marine life, from giant clams to crabs and shrimp tucked within the coral.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.
Real swims recorded here, shared by the swimmers who made them and shown without their name.