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Chapel Porth

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

Best of the week: Monday around 13:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.6 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the E
Wind9mphE · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:22 (2.0 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell W 7s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–15 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
14–19 ft Swell W 12s 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–3 3–4 6–9 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 7–10 7–9 7–10 8–10 8–11 9–12 9–12 9–13 10–14 11–15 14–19 13–18 12–16 11–14 9–13
Swell 13s 12s 11s 11s 11s 4s 7s 7s 4s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 6s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 6 8 12 12 9 10 7 8 21 20 3 9 15 22 15 23 27 24 24 23 5 4 6 6 9 14 20 20 20 19
Tide m 5.5↑ 5.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.5↑ 4.9↑ 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↑ 4.2↑ 4.1↑ 5.4↓ 4.1↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↑ 4.6↓ 3.1↓ 3.1↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↑ 5.0↓ 3.7↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓
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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 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

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 NWWE
W
0.6 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
E
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 01:22Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:28High6.0 m
  • Sat 13:48Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:47High5.6 m
  • Sun 01:58Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.7 m
  • Sun 14:30Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.3 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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