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Caswell Bay

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 16:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now8–11ftwind sea 5.9 m from the SW
Wind25mphW · cross-off · gusts 44
Tide 7.7mFalling · low 00:01 (1.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
8–11 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–9 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–8 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 11 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 8–11 5–7 4–5 3–4 5–8 4–6 2–4 3–4 6–8 6–9 8–10 5–8 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5 5–7 4–6 4–5 4–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3
Swell 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 10s 8s 8s 6s 7s 7s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 10s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s
Wind mph 25 23 22 22 16 15 14 22 24 22 21 21 19 24 20 18 17 15 15 13 8 7 9 14 13 13 11 12 13 12 11
Tide m 8.6↓ 8.9↓ 3.9↓ 1.7↑ 6.6↑ 9.5↓ 9.5↓ 5.2↓ 1.2↑ 5.3↑ 9.7↑ 9.6↑ 6.6↓ 1.3↓ 3.9↑ 9.4↑ 9.0↑ 7.9↓ 2.0↓ 2.7↑ 8.4↑ 7.9↑ 8.8↓ 3.2↓ 2.0↑ 7.1↑ 6.5↑ 9.1↓ 4.8↓ 1.9↑ 5.6↑
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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 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

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 SSW
SW
5.9 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 50 % 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

  • Sun 00:01Low1.5 m
  • Sun 05:16High9.2 m
  • Sun 11:19Low1.4 m
  • Sun 17:35High9.5 m
  • Sun 23:38Low1.2 m
  • Mon 05:53High9.5 m
  • Mon 11:55Low1.2 m
  • Mon 18:13High9.8 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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