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Bantham

★★★★★Fair
Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore north-east Best swell South West

Best of the week: Wednesday around 10:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 11 s from the SW
Wind8mphNE · offshore · gusts 14
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 02:07 (1.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
10–13 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Thu
7–10 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 12 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 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 4–5 4–5 4–5 3–5 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 8–11 9–12 9–13 10–13 9–13 6–9 6–8 6–9 6–9 7–10 10–13 9–13 9–12 8–11 7–9
Swell 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 5s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 6s 7s 7s 9s 9s 8s 9s 10s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 8 8 10 10 6 10 17 13 13 20 4 4 7 14 15 21 23 25 22 20 8 4 10 9 8 9 7 11 12 12
Tide m 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.6↓ 1.7↑ 3.3↑ 3.3↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 2.9↑ 2.9↑ 4.3↑ 3.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.5↑ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.3↓ 2.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 4.1↓ 2.8↓ 2.1↑ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 4.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bantham faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Salcombe 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

Bantham 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 SWSW
SW
0.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Bantham works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Follow A379 towards Plymouth, then straight over roundabout to bantham follow road for 2 miles and you'll see it from the top of the hill

Most consistent break on south coast . Tends to get very crowded and is often affected by the south westerly winds, where it becomes blown out.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:07Low1.4 m
  • Sat 08:12High4.6 m
  • Sat 14:28Low1.6 m
  • Sat 20:28High4.3 m
  • Sun 02:38Low1.6 m
  • Sun 08:46High4.5 m
  • Sun 15:02Low1.7 m
  • Sun 21:06High4.1 m

Salcombe station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
The bay and beach at Bantham - geograph.org.uk - 5030381 Kite surfers at Bantham Beach - geograph.org.uk - 5030365

David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. David Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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