Bimini Weather: Forecast, Wind, Waves & Water Temperature

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The official forecast

The Bahamas Department of Meteorology issues the official forecast for Bimini. Its Bahamas Marine Forecast and Bahamas Public Forecast are posted on met.gov.bs. For tropical storms and hurricanes, the Department posts its own storm and severe-weather messages there too, and the National Hurricane Center publishes the advisories and forecast tracks. Both links sit beside every block on this page.

Forecast numbers

The National Weather Service forecasts on a grid of squares about 1.6 miles (2.5 km) across, and Bimini sits in cell 145,53 of the grid its Miami office runs. That cell falls in the Weather Service's marine zone AMZ671, whose full name is "Waters from Deerfield Beach to Ocean Reef FL from 20 to 60 NM excluding the territorial waters of Bahamas". The zone leaves Bahamian waters out by name. So the table is the Weather Service's grid output for the square over Bimini, and the official forecast for Bahamian waters is the Bahamas Department of Meteorology's.

Wind and gusts are in knots, wave height and swell in feet, wave period in seconds and air temperature in °F. The Weather Service's data service publishes the grid in metric units, and this site converts them. Wind and swell are given by the direction they come from. The table runs every three hours for the next two days, and the rest of the forecast sits under it, every six hours.

Forecast numbers for the Bimini grid cell

Issued November 2, 2026, 3:02 pm Updated November 2, 2026, 3:07 pm

Every three hours for the next two days, then every six hours, in Bimini time. A dash means the grid holds no value for that time.

Forecast numbers, every three hours
Time	Wind	Gusts	Wave height	Wave period	Swell	Air	Chance of rain
Monday, November 2
3 pm	E 18 kt	19 kt	2 ft	5 s	0 ft	80°F	57%
6 pm	E 20 kt	22 kt	2 ft	5 s	0 ft	80°F	44%
9 pm	E 21 kt	23 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	80°F	38%
Tuesday, November 3
12 am	E 19 kt	22 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	80°F	46%
3 am	E 18 kt	20 kt	2 ft	7 s	0 ft	80°F	66%
6 am	E 17 kt	19 kt	2 ft	7 s	0 ft	80°F	44%
9 am	E 17 kt	19 kt	2 ft	7 s	0 ft	82°F	47%
12 pm	E 16 kt	18 kt	2 ft	7 s	0 ft	82°F	48%
3 pm	E 14 kt	15 kt	2 ft	7 s	0 ft	82°F	39%
6 pm	E 15 kt	17 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	42%
9 pm	ENE 15 kt	17 kt	2 ft	5 s	0 ft	81°F	34%
Wednesday, November 4
12 am	ENE 14 kt	16 kt	2 ft	5 s	0 ft	80°F	33%
3 am	ENE 12 kt	14 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	80°F	18%
6 am	ENE 13 kt	14 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	79°F	32%
9 am	ENE 13 kt	14 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	34%
12 pm	ENE 11 kt	12 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	34%

The rest of the forecast, every six hours

Forecast numbers, every six hours
Time	Wind	Gusts	Wave height	Wave period	Swell	Air	Chance of rain
Wednesday, November 4
3 pm	ENE 9 kt	10 kt	2 ft	6 s	0 ft	82°F	12%
9 pm	ENE 10 kt	12 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	80°F	14%
Thursday, November 5
3 am	NE 6 kt	7 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	79°F	8%
9 am	NE 9 kt	10 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	6%
3 pm	NE 9 kt	10 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	5%
9 pm	ENE 9 kt	10 kt	1 ft	5 s	0 ft	80°F	6%
Friday, November 6
3 am	ENE 6 kt	7 kt	1 ft	5 s	0 ft	79°F	4%
9 am	NNE 8 kt	8 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	2%
3 pm	NE 6 kt	8 kt	1 ft	6 s	0 ft	81°F	1%
9 pm	ENE 5 kt	6 kt	1 ft	5 s	0 ft	80°F	9%
Saturday, November 7
3 am	N 4 kt	5 kt	1 ft	5 s	0 ft	79°F	5%
9 am	N 6 kt	8 kt	1 ft	3 s	0 ft	80°F	3%
3 pm	NNE 5 kt	6 kt	1 ft	2 s	0 ft	81°F	5%
9 pm	ENE 5 kt	6 kt	1 ft	2 s	0 ft	79°F	14%
Sunday, November 8
3 am	SE 6 kt	7 kt	1 ft	5 s	0 ft	79°F	10%
9 am	SSE 7 kt	9 kt	1 ft	11 s	–	80°F	7%
3 pm	SSE 8 kt	9 kt	1 ft	8 s	–	81°F	13%
9 pm	SSE 9 kt	10 kt	1 ft	8 s	–	79°F	23%
Monday, November 9
3 am	W 11 kt	11 kt	1 ft	–	–	78°F	23%
9 am	NNW 14 kt	15 kt	–	–	–	80°F	22%
3 pm	N 12 kt	14 kt	–	–	–	80°F	24%

National Weather Service grid data, cell MFL 145,53. Public domain; no endorsement implied.

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

Marine forecast

The National Hurricane Center writes an offshore waters forecast for the southwest North Atlantic, the Bahamas included, and splits it into zones. Bimini is in zone AMZ075, "Northern Bahamas from 24N to 27N". The block shows that zone's part of the forecast exactly as the Hurricane Center issued it, line for line, with the product's own note on how it gives the height of the seas.

Its seas and the table's wave height above can differ. The table is the Weather Service's grid value for the one square over Bimini, and this forecast covers its whole zone, from 24N to 27N, open Atlantic waters included.

Offshore waters forecast, zone AMZ075

Issued November 2, 2026, 10:19 am Updated November 2, 2026, 3:17 pm

AMZ075-030330-
Northern Bahamas from 24N to 27N-
1019 AM EST Mon Nov 2 2026

.TODAY...E winds 15 to 20 kt in the afternoon. Seas 6 to 9 ft in
NE to E swell. Scattered tstms. 
.TONIGHT...E winds 15 to 20 kt. Seas 7 to 10 ft in NE to E swell.
Scattered showers and isolated tstms. 
.TUE...E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 6 to 9 ft in NE to E swell.
Scattered showers. 
.TUE NIGHT...E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft in NE to E
swell. Scattered showers and isolated tstms. 
.WED...NE to E winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft in NE to E
swell. 
.WED NIGHT...NE winds 10 kt. Seas 4 to 6 ft in NE to E swell. 
.THU...N to NE winds 10 kt. Seas 5 to 7 ft in NE swell. 
.THU NIGHT...NE winds 10 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft in NE swell. 
.FRI...N to NE winds 10 to 15 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft in NE swell. 
.FRI NIGHT...N to NE winds 10 kt. Seas 6 to 8 ft in NE swell.

The product's own note on seas:

Seas given as significant wave height, which is the average
height of the highest 1/3 of the waves. Individual waves may be
more than twice the significant wave height.

National Hurricane Center, Offshore Waters Forecast for the SW N Atlantic including the Bahamas (OFFNT5). Public domain; no endorsement implied.

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

Nearest station readings

No station in NOAA's National Data Buoy Center network sits at Bimini, so the page shows three nearby ones from it: NOAA's station at Settlement Point on Grand Bahama, the network's nearest in The Bahamas, and the two nearest on the Florida side that report. Those are a wave buoy off Hollywood Beach, run by the Coastal Data Information Program at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and NOAA's station at Virginia Key. Each tile gives its station's distance from Bimini, worked out from the positions in the network's station list.

The two Florida stations are on the far side of the Gulf Stream, so their wind, waves and water temperature are Florida-side readings. A reading a station didn't send shows as "No reading".

Station SPGF1, Settlement Point, Grand Bahama ndbc.noaa.gov

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

Hollywood Beach, Florida

Observed November 2, 2026, 2:00 pm Updated November 2, 2026, 2:47 pm

CDIP wave buoy 41122, 53 miles (85 km) west of Bimini

Wave height: 4.3 ft
Dominant period: 5 s
Waves from: ESE
Water temperature: 82°F (27.6°C)

Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP), Scripps Institution of Oceanography, station 265, through NOAA's National Data Buoy Center as 41122. CDIP is primarily supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

Virginia Key, Florida

Observed November 2, 2026, 2:00 pm Updated November 2, 2026, 2:47 pm

NOAA station VAKF1, 54 miles (87 km) west of Bimini

Wind: E 12 kt
Gusts: 16 kt
Water temperature: 81°F (27°C)
Pressure: 29.93 inHg (1013.7 hPa)

NOAA National Ocean Service station 8723214, through the National Data Buoy Center as VAKF1. Public domain; no endorsement implied.

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

Water temperature

The sea-surface temperature comes from MUR, a daily analysis that NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory merges from several sensors at a resolution of about a kilometer, served through NOAA CoastWatch. It runs a day behind, so the figure is for the day before, and JPL usually revises the most recent seven days each day. The figure shown is for the analysis cell nearest Bimini, and it's a foundation temperature: the water below the top layer that the sun warms by day, much like a pre-dawn reading 3 to 16 feet (1 to 5 m) down. On a sunny afternoon with little wind, the very top of the water can run warmer.

Sea-surface temperature

Analysis for October 31, 2026, 5:00 am Updated November 2, 2026, 9:42 am

82°F (27.9°C)

The foundation temperature for the cell of the daily MUR analysis nearest Bimini: the water below the top layer that warms by day, much like a pre-dawn reading 3 to 16 feet (1 to 5 m) down.

MUR analysis (jplMURSST41), NASA JPL, through NOAA CoastWatch ERDDAP. These data were provided by JPL under support by NASA MEaSUREs program.

Official Bahamas forecast met.gov.bs National Hurricane Center nhc.noaa.gov

How the blocks stay current

This site pulls each source on a schedule and keeps the last copy that passed its checks. When a source stops answering, its block carries on with that copy until the copy reaches its age limit. Then the block drops off the page, and the link to its source stays in its place.

Sources and credits

Forecast numbers: National Weather Service. Offshore waters forecast: National Hurricane Center. Readings at Settlement Point and Virginia Key: NOAA's National Data Buoy Center and National Ocean Service. These forecasts and readings are National Weather Service and NOAA material, which is not subject to copyright protection, and their use here implies no endorsement by or affiliation with NOAA or the National Weather Service.

Readings off Hollywood Beach: the Coastal Data Information Program (CDIP) at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, station 265, carried by the National Data Buoy Center as station 41122. CDIP is primarily supported by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).

Sea-surface temperature: the MUR analysis from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, through NOAA CoastWatch's ERDDAP server. These data were provided by JPL under support by NASA MEaSUREs program.

The data sources page lists every source the site uses, with the credit each one asks for.