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Caswell Bay

★★★★★Small
Faces S high tide Offshore North Best swell south

Best of the week: Wednesday around 10:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.3 m from the E
Wind4mphSE · onshore · gusts 9
Tide 4.0mFalling · low 02:11 (2.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
Time 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 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 5–7 5–7 5–6 5–6 5–7 8–11 8–11 7–10 6–9 6–8
Swell 11s 3s 3s 3s 8s 7s 6s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 4s 7s 7s 7s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 11 11 15 14 14 11 15 9 11 16 2 3 10 14 18 16 11 13 10 7 5 3 7 7 7 15 16 17 15 13
Tide m 6.2↑ 8.3↓ 4.9↓ 2.6↑ 5.6↑ 5.4↑ 7.9↑ 5.7↓ 3.0↓ 4.8↑ 4.7↑ 7.3↑ 6.5↓ 3.6↓ 4.2↑ 4.2↑ 6.5↑ 7.0↓ 4.6↓ 3.7↑ 3.8↑ 5.5↑ 7.1↑ 5.7↓ 3.6↓ 3.9↓ 4.4↑ 6.9↑ 6.8↓ 4.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Caswell 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 Mumbles 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 Tuesday 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

Caswell Bay faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to SW; 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 SSWE
SW
0.4 m at 11 s (swell) · 84 % reaches the beach
E
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 42 % reaches the beach

How Caswell Bay works

Swell
Best from the south.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Beach is opposite Pay and display car Park.

Great place to surf for anyone, can catch some awesome breaks on some days, though the breaks tend to be quite shallow.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:11Low2.5 m
  • Sat 08:39High8.4 m
  • Sat 14:34Low2.6 m
  • Sat 20:56High8.0 m
  • Sun 02:42Low2.8 m
  • Sun 09:14High8.0 m
  • Sun 15:12Low3.0 m
  • Sun 21:34High7.5 m

Mumbles station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
On the beach at Caswell Bay - geograph.org.uk - 4911175 Apartments overlooking the beach at Caswell Bay - geograph.org.uk - 4911166

Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bill Boaden, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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