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Aberavon beach

★★★★★Small
River mouth Faces SW all tides Offshore East Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Wednesday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 0.1 m from the E
Wind5mphE · cross-off · gusts 8
Tide 4.2mFalling · low 02:12 (2.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–14 ft Swell W 11s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
Time 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 6–8 6–8 4–6 5–7 6–9 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–9 10–13 10–14 10–13 9–12 8–11
Swell 11s 10s 3s 3s 8s 7s 6s 6s 4s 6s 9s 9s 9s 9s 3s 4s 7s 7s 6s 7s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 7 10 13 11 10 12 9 6 12 18 0 3 10 15 20 12 9 9 8 6 5 5 9 8 7 17 18 19 18 16
Tide m 6.4↑ 8.6↓ 5.1↓ 2.8↑ 5.8↑ 5.6↑ 8.2↑ 6.0↓ 3.1↓ 4.9↑ 4.8↑ 7.5↑ 6.8↓ 3.8↓ 4.2↑ 4.2↑ 6.6↑ 7.3↓ 4.8↓ 3.7↑ 3.9↑ 5.6↑ 7.4↑ 5.9↓ 3.7↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↑ 7.1↑ 7.0↓ 4.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Aberavon beach faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Port Talbot above chart datum, rising ↑ or falling ↓; the rating drops when the tide is outside the window this break works on. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Tuesday the swell comes from Météo-France's 10-day model, which is coarser than the 5 km German model used close in. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Aberavon beach faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to W; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SWSWE
SW
0.3 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
E
0.1 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 4 % reaches the beach

How Aberavon beach works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Straight off the m4 into port talbot and head for the coast

Beach-break this place is a good beach but keep your mouths shut when duck diving

Tide times

  • Sat 02:12Low2.6 m
  • Sat 08:40High8.6 m
  • Sat 14:36Low2.7 m
  • Sat 20:57High8.2 m
  • Sun 02:44Low2.9 m
  • Sun 09:17High8.2 m
  • Sun 15:15Low3.0 m
  • Sun 21:37High7.8 m

Port Talbot station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Aberavon beach - geograph.org.uk - 2506053 Sunset across Swansea Bay from Aberavon Beach - geograph.org.uk - 2065207

John Lord, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. John Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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