Anchor Point Swell Window
Taghazout, Morocco · part of the Anchor Point spot guide
- Swell window (from)
- 240°–340° (WSW–NNW)
- Best direction
- ~305° (NW)
- Period sweet spot
- 12–16 s
- Open-ocean height (Hs)
- 5–13 ft
- Resulting faces
- 3–15 ft
Open-ocean vs. the face: the heights on buoys and forecast models are significant wave height (Hs) in deep water. What you ride is the breaking face, which depends on period, direction and this break's bathymetry — that's why the two rows above differ. PierMonkey's spot ratings already do this conversion for you.
Anchor Point takes energy from west-southwest through northwest, best on a northwest groundswell around 300–320°; the far southwest edge is a weak, extra-wrap direction. Period of 12 seconds and up is what switches it on — long-period lines refract cleanly and wall down the point.
The metre figures you read on a model are open-ocean significant height, not the wave you drop into. A 1.5-to-2.5 m northwest swell at long period lights it into head-high rippable walls, capping near 15 ft of face on the biggest days.