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Chapel Porth

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW low tide Offshore south-east Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Thursday around 11:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now16–21ftwind sea 5.7 m from the W
Wind33mphSW · cross-on · gusts 57
Tide 4.2mFalling · low 23:06 (1.1 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
16–21 ft Swell W 9s Wind 33 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–22 ft Swell W 10s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 12s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
9–13 ft Swell W 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 20 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 16–21 16–22 15–20 13–17 12–16 10–13 5–7 5–7 6–8 7–9 7–10 12–16 10–13 10–13 10–14 10–14 9–13 8–11 8–11 7–10 7–9 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 6s 10s 10s 12s 7s 8s 8s 7s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s
Wind mph 33 30 27 24 20 18 16 23 21 25 28 26 25 29 25 23 20 18 17 15 11 13 15 20 19 20 18 20 20 19 16
Tide m 5.1↓ 5.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↓ 6.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.3↑ 5.6↑ 6.8↓ 6.9↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↑ 4.6↑ 7.2↓ 7.1↓ 4.2↓ 0.9↓ 3.5↑ 7.0↑ 6.8↑ 5.2↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↑ 5.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.8↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Chapel Porth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Perranporth 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

Chapel Porth faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to N; 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 NWW
W
5.7 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Chapel Porth works

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

Low-tide beach south of St Agnes; hollow and heavy when it's on.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:06Low1.1 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.7 m
  • Sun 10:22Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.0 m
  • Sun 22:42Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.0 m
  • Mon 10:59Low0.9 m
  • Mon 16:58High7.2 m

Perranporth station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Chapel Porth Beach - panoramio Surfboards on the Sands (2785194132)

BazViv, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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