Black all day today, then worth blocking time tomorrow, 10:00–11:00 — red, up to 2.4 m.

Through the window the wind is cross-onshore, gusting 52 km/h — expect it messy. High confidence: both forecasts agree. 3 more windows in the next seven days. There's also a chance Thursday, 07:33–16:00: blue, up to 0.8 m (low confidence: our main forecast shows it, the second doesn't, but it's more than three days out). All day today: 6.4 m waves with onshore gusts to 97 km/h, storm surge of +1.2 m.

The next seven days at Texel — for blue and red days, updated 11:52

Sunday Oct 25: black (experts only), up to 4.9 m
Monday Oct 26: red, 10:00–11:00, up to 2.5 m, 9 s, wind cross-onshore; blue to red, 12:00–17:21, up to 2.2 m, 8 s, wind cross-shore
Tuesday Oct 27: blue, 07:29–15:00, up to 1.2 m, 6 s, wind cross-offshore
Wednesday Oct 28: blue, 07:31–17:17, up to 1.4 m, 6 s, wind cross-onshore
Thursday Oct 29: blue, 07:33–16:00, up to 0.8 m, 6 s, wind onshore (a chance)
Friday Oct 30: green, up to 0.5 m
Saturday Oct 31: green, up to 0.4 m

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About Texel

The island's North Sea beach, numbered by beach posts (paal). Groynes run out up to paal 19, so stay clear of them at high tide; north of paal 19 there are none, but the current is stronger and drifts toward Vlieland.

Paal 9 near Den Hoorn gets the biggest waves in a north-westerly; paal 17 is the busiest. The best waves usually come on the ebb.

The beach faces WNW (298°). Offshore wind, the clean kind, blows from between ENE and SSE; onshore wind from between SW and N chops it up; the rest is cross-shore.

We take the wind 5 km out to sea, check the waves against Rijkswaterstaat's Eierlandse Gat station 21 km away, and read storm surge at the Texel Noordzee gauge.

Along the coast: Petten to the south.