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Abereiddy

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NW mid to high tide Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Monday around 10:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 8 s from the SW, wind sea 1.1 m from the S
Wind13mphS · offshore · gusts 23
Tide 3.0mFalling · low 03:52 (1.8 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–15 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
7–10 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 5–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–9 7–9 11–15 14–18 14–19 12–16 9–13 7–9 7–10 7–10 7–10 6–9 4–6 4–6 3–4 3–4 2–3
Swell 7s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 5s 6s 6s 10s 10s 9s 9s 12s 11s 10s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s
Wind mph 13 10 5 19 20 10 2 8 11 20 20 16 19 18 18 14 15 17 15 14 13 13 20 23 25 10 6 4 5 7
Tide m 2.3↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.1↑ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.1↑ 2.2↑ 2.9↑ 3.4↓ 2.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 2.7↓ 2.0↓ 2.7↑ 3.7↑ 3.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Abereiddy faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthgain 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

Abereiddy faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to NE; 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 NWSWS
SW
0.4 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
S
1.1 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 4 % reaches the beach

How Abereiddy works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Along to coast road between Fishguard and St Davids

Beautiful beach with reef and sand breaks, reasonable protection from the prevailing SW winds..

Tide times

  • Sun 03:52Low1.8 m
  • Sun 10:01High3.8 m
  • Sun 16:23Low1.9 m
  • Sun 22:22High3.5 m
  • Mon 04:34Low2.0 m
  • Mon 10:49High3.6 m
  • Mon 17:15Low2.1 m
  • Mon 23:14High3.3 m

Porthgain station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Cliffs at Abereiddy Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7208598 Wave-cut platform, Abereiddy Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7208518

Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

8 Jul 2005 · Jimbo Watch out for lobster pots and other hazards
23 Nov 2004 · Ben Classic break! Good cliff jumping 5mins walk round in blue lagoon too!!

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