Borth
★★★★★SmallBest of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.
Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sat 24 | Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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.
- 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.
Photos
In the galleryDavid Purchase, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. norman griffin, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Nearby
No other breaks within 40 km on the guide.


