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Borth

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now10–14ftwind sea 3.8 m from the W
Wind24mphW · onshore · gusts 46
Tide 4.7mRising · high 20:00 (4.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
10–14 ft Swell W 8s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 17 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 10–14 10–14 10–14 9–12 7–9 5–7 2–3 1–2 2–4 4–6 4–6 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 6–9 6–9 6–8 4–6 4–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3
Swell 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 4s 5s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 24 29 27 25 21 18 9 19 19 17 23 27 27 29 27 25 23 18 17 16 13 11 17 17 17 20 22 20 17 17 17
Tide m 4.4↑ 4.0↑ 4.0↓ 1.6↓ 1.0↑ 4.1↑ 3.5↑ 4.6↓ 2.1↓ 0.6↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 0.6↓ 2.6↑ 2.0↑ 5.0↑ 3.4↓ 0.8↓ 1.7↑ 1.4↑ 4.6↑ 4.0↓ 1.4↓ 1.0↑ 1.1↑ 4.0↑ 4.4↓ 2.1↓ 0.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Borth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Aberdovey 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

Borth faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to N; 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 WW
W
3.8 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Borth works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sat 20:00High4.7 m
  • Sun 01:59Low0.6 m
  • Sun 07:23High4.6 m
  • Sun 14:11Low0.7 m
  • Sun 19:37High5.0 m
  • Mon 02:38Low0.5 m
  • Mon 07:58High4.8 m
  • Mon 14:50Low0.6 m

Aberdovey station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Borth beach and promenade - geograph.org.uk - 2535916 Borth beach - geograph.org.uk - 5602539

David Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. norman griffin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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