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Aberavon beach

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now13–17ft1.4 m at 12 s from the SW, wind sea 4.5 m from the SW
Wind22mphW · cross-on · gusts 38
Tide 7.9mFalling · low 00:02 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–17 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
10–13 ft Swell W 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 13–17 11–14 9–12 7–10 6–8 5–7 3–4 2–4 5–8 6–8 6–8 9–13 8–11 7–9 7–10 7–9 8–11 6–9 6–8 6–9 5–7 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4
Swell 9s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 8s 7s 6s 6s 9s 11s 11s 10s 11s 10s 6s 6s 6s 10s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 22 23 26 23 20 13 11 16 22 18 16 18 15 20 16 14 15 12 14 11 6 5 7 12 12 13 9 9 9 9 9
Tide m 8.8↓ 9.1↓ 4.1↓ 1.9↑ 6.7↑ 9.6↓ 9.7↓ 5.4↓ 1.4↑ 5.4↑ 9.9↑ 9.7↑ 6.9↓ 1.5↓ 4.0↑ 9.5↑ 9.1↑ 8.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.8↑ 8.6↑ 8.1↑ 9.0↓ 3.5↓ 2.2↑ 7.2↑ 6.7↑ 9.3↓ 5.0↓ 2.1↑ 5.7↑
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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 Wednesday 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 SWSWSW
SW
1.4 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
4.5 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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

  • Sun 00:02Low1.6 m
  • Sun 05:17High9.4 m
  • Sun 11:19Low1.6 m
  • Sun 17:36High9.7 m
  • Sun 23:41Low1.3 m
  • Mon 05:54High9.7 m
  • Mon 11:59Low1.4 m
  • Mon 18:14High9.9 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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