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Challaborough

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SW all tides Offshore north-east Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 8 s from the S, wind sea 0.9 m from the S
Wind10mphS · onshore · gusts 17
Tide 2.5mFalling · low 02:38 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
5–8 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
10–13 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
8–11 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
8–10 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–7 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 2–3 4–5 4–5 4–5 5–7 4–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 7–9 8–12 9–12 9–13 10–13 8–11 8–11 7–10 7–9 6–9 7–10 8–11 8–11 8–10 7–10 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–4
Swell 4s 6s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 6s 7s 7s 7s 11s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 9s 9s 10s 11s 12s 9s 8s 9s 8s 8s
Wind mph 8 15 15 16 14 4 3 7 11 16 15 21 20 16 18 11 13 17 15 16 16 13 8 4 12 12 9 6 3 2
Tide m 3.3↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 2.9↑ 2.9↑ 4.3↑ 3.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.5↑ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.3↓ 2.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 4.1↓ 2.8↓ 2.1↑ 2.3↓ 3.0↑ 4.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.1↓ 2.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Challaborough faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Salcombe 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

Challaborough faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to NW; 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 SWSS
S
0.7 m at 8 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
S
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Challaborough works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Next bay west of Bantham.

Tide times

  • Sun 02:38Low1.6 m
  • Sun 08:46High4.5 m
  • Sun 15:02Low1.7 m
  • Sun 21:06High4.1 m
  • Mon 03:13Low1.8 m
  • Mon 09:27High4.3 m
  • Mon 15:41Low1.9 m
  • Mon 21:57High4.0 m

Salcombe station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Challaborough Bay, Devon, From the SW coastal path - geograph.org.uk - 5423287 Looking across Challaborough Bay to Beacon Point in the far distance, Devon - geograph.org.uk - 5422990

Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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