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Tip of the moment
Punaauia · Polynésie française
Today's take
Window: 07:00–09:00, with caution — read the safety panel before you go.
Water temperature
26.0 °C
Verdict · Tomorrow
Pleasant
Underwater visibility
~37.9 m
satellite reading from 3 days ago
When to go
Good from 07:00 to 09:00.
Then from 14:00 to 17:00.
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 6.1 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 04:10 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 7 · max 27 km/h · south-east sector · gusts 37 km/h
No thunderstorms forecast.
World Triathlon: stop on lightning
Offshore wind · 7 – 27 km/h
No wind-driven offshore drift.
RNLI / lifeguard warning · measured drift (coastguard): 2–4 % of the wind · Beaufort scale
Visibility · 7 – 58 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: 400 m → 79.0 m · 800 m → 303.0 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.
Stonefish
Highly venomous and invisible on coral or sandy bottoms. Never walk barefoot on the reef flat; thick booties are essential.
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.
Boat traffic
A navigation channel or busy boating area is close by. Stay inside the marked swim zone, wear a bright cap and a tow float to be seen.
PK18 car park, public beach facilities. Lifeguarded at weekends.
Worth knowing
This lagoon shelters a quietly rich marine life, from rock-boring sea urchins to spotted eagle rays and whitetip reef sharks patrolling near the drop-off.
Spot profile pending on-site verification.