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Abereiddy

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

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

Surf now14–19ftwind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind31mphW · onshore · gusts 56
Tide 3.8mRising · high 05:58 (4.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
13–18 ft Swell W 8s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
9–12 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31
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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 13–18 12–16 11–15 9–12 7–9 2–4 2–3 3–4 3–5 3–4 8–11 8–11 8–11 8–10 7–10 6–9 5–7 5–8 4–6 3–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 8s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 5s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 8s 4s 4s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 32 29 29 20 15 22 23 23 25 28 32 26 27 26 24 22 20 19 15 12 11 14 21 21 20 22 23 22 18 15 19 19 12 9 8
Tide m 4.4↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↓ 2.5↑ 4.6↑ 4.5↑ 3.4↓ 1.0↓ 1.9↑ 4.5↑ 4.3↑ 4.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.3↑ 4.1↑ 3.8↑ 4.4↓ 1.8↓ 0.9↑ 3.5↑ 3.2↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 0.9↑ 2.7↑ 2.5↑ 4.4↑ 3.2↓ 1.3↓ 2.1↑ – – – – –
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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 NWW
W
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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 05:58High4.4 m
  • Sun 12:15Low0.9 m
  • Sun 18:15High4.6 m
  • Mon 00:36Low0.8 m
  • Mon 06:35High4.6 m
  • Mon 12:53Low0.8 m
  • Mon 18:54High4.7 m
  • Tue 01:12Low0.7 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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