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Bantham

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 09:00, 2–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now14–19ftwind sea 5.3 m from the SW
Wind35mphSW · onshore · gusts 61
Tide 4.0mFalling · low 23:49 (1.1 m). Works mid to high tide.

Live webcam

3 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
14–19 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 35 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–14 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 13 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 14–19 9–13 8–11 7–10 6–9 5–8 4–6 6–8 8–11 8–11 8–11 11–15 11–14 10–14 10–13 9–12 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
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Wind mph 35 27 21 24 21 18 20 26 25 24 26 22 24 28 22 20 18 18 18 16 10 7 8 14 12 11 13 13 12 11 11
Tide m 4.4↓ 4.7↓ 2.2↓ 1.4↑ 3.9↑ 5.0↓ 5.1↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 3.2↑ 5.2↓ 5.2↑ 3.5↓ 0.9↓ 2.4↑ 5.1↑ 4.9↑ 4.1↓ 1.2↓ 1.7↑ 4.6↑ 4.4↑ 4.6↓ 1.8↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↑ 4.8↓ 2.5↓ 1.2↑ 3.2↑
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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 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

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
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 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 23:49Low1.1 m
  • Sun 05:07High4.9 m
  • Sun 11:08Low1.2 m
  • Sun 17:18High5.1 m
  • Sun 23:30Low0.9 m
  • Mon 05:44High5.1 m
  • Mon 11:49Low0.9 m
  • Mon 17:57High5.2 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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