Wave4Me takes what you tell us about yourself and matches it against ocean conditions, so you get one clear answer instead of five open browser tabs.
Every recommendation runs through the same three stages.
We drop any spot further than your maximum travel time, so you're never sent somewhere impractical.
Remaining spots are scored against your skill level, the wave size you're after, and your preferred time — swell, wind direction, and tide all factor in.
Board length, wax temperature band, and wetsuit thickness are worked out from your height, weight, skill, and the water temperature.
Wave4Me is built to run on free, open marine and weather data — no paywalled forecasts.
Swell height and period, wind speed and direction, and water temperature — fetched fresh from open marine and weather data sources for every recommendation.
When a real government or regional wave buoy is nearby and you're asking about right now, we use its actual measured swell height and period instead of a forecast — ground truth, not a model.
Turns a typed location into coordinates so we can find and measure distance to nearby spots.
Linus Smith grew up with the beaches of Eastern Victoria as his backyard. In 2026, he combined his love for surfing, software engineering, and helping others to create Wave4Me. Wave4Me gathers real-time surf data from open information sources to tailor a recommendation for where and when to surf, for you — no complex, hard-to-read swell reports, just digestible surfing information tailored to your needs.