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Borth

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west
Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 5 s from the W, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind8mphSW · onshore · gusts 15
Tide 2.9mFalling · low 22:15 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–7 ft Swell W 5s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3
Swell 5s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 5s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s
Wind mph 8 13 12 15 15 13 5 5 7 6 5 13 15 17 18 17 18 16 13 12 9 23 26 25 20 18 20 19 19 18 17
Tide m 2.9↓ 3.1↓ 2.0↓ 2.0↑ 3.6↑ 3.5↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↓ 2.9↑ 4.0↓ 3.8↑ 3.1↓ 1.5↓ 2.0↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.7↓ 1.7↓ 1.2↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.3↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.4↑ 2.6↑ 4.6↓ 2.7↓ 0.7↓ 2.6↑
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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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WWSW
W
0.5 m at 5 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 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

  • Sun 22:15Low1.5 m
  • Mon 03:35High3.6 m
  • Mon 10:51Low1.8 m
  • Mon 16:09High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:48Low1.3 m
  • Tue 05:10High3.6 m
  • Tue 12:17Low1.6 m
  • Tue 17:37High4.0 m

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

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