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Carbis Bay

★★★★★Flat
Faces N high tide Offshore south Best swell north

Best of the week: Sunday around 17:00, 2–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0ftwind sea 5.9 m from the W
Wind26mphSW · cross-off · gusts 48
Tide 4.1mFalling · low 23:12 (1.1 m). Works high tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 10s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell W 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell W 8s 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 0 4–5 4–6 3–4 4–6 2–3 0–1 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 10s 9s 9s 11s 11s 11s 5s 10s 10s 11s 12s 12s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 26 25 22 22 17 9 20 19 18 21 27 18 17 22 17 14 15 13 14 12 7 13 15 19 19 20 17 19 19 15 10
Tide m 4.9↓ 5.2↓ 1.7↓ 2.0↑ 6.0↑ 5.8↓ 6.0↓ 2.2↓ 1.2↑ 5.4↑ 6.5↓ 6.6↓ 3.0↓ 0.8↑ 4.5↑ 6.9↓ 6.8↓ 4.0↓ 0.9↓ 3.3↑ 6.8↑ 6.5↑ 5.0↓ 1.5↓ 2.3↑ 6.1↑ 5.7↑ 5.7↓ 2.4↓ 1.7↑ 4.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Carbis Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at St. Ives 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

Carbis Bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to NE; 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 NW
W
5.9 m at 10 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Carbis Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
go to carbis bay beach then look straight in front of you and bobs your uncle.

this break is a legend and only works propaly at high tide there is a sweet wedge and only for BODYBOARDERS because its shorey. the wedge is great for backflips and ARS when ure as good as triston because its is local so if you go there and you are a kook then he will have you so watch out

Tide times

  • Sat 23:12Low1.1 m
  • Sun 04:01High6.4 m
  • Sun 10:28Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:18High6.7 m
  • Sun 22:48Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:37High6.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low0.9 m
  • Mon 16:55High6.9 m

St. Ives station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Morning Walk On Carbis Bay Beach, In Cornwall (50976449043) Sunrise at Carbis Bay Beach, Cornwall. Holder Of The G7 Summit In 2021. (Creative Commons by www.hedgehogdigital.co.uk). (50976430988)

Hedgehog Digital, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Hedgehog Digital, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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