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Crantock

★★★★★Fair
River mouth Faces NW high tide Offshore South East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Tuesday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–4ft1.0 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5
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Wind mph 4 3 3 4 6 3 6 3 4 8 7 18 19 20 21 18 12 12 12 11 8 17 18 20 22 15 13 14 15 14 11
Tide m 2.7↓ 3.0↓ 3.3↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 5.8↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↓ 3.1↑ 6.2↑ 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 5.2↑ 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.4↓ 0.7↑ 4.1↑ 7.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Crantock faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Newquay 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

Crantock faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWW
W
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 88 % reaches the beach

How Crantock works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Just south of Newquay, head for the Pentire for easier parking but you've got to cross the river

Lovely Bay just south of Newquay, has a river mouth at the northly end. Offers a lot of protection from winds due to step sided cliffs either side, but also picks up less swell. Parking a nightmare unless you don't mind paddling accross the river at high tide.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:35Low2.7 m
  • Mon 00:36High5.1 m
  • Mon 07:20Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:23High5.3 m
  • Mon 20:19Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.3 m
  • Tue 08:47Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.8 m

Newquay station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Comments

1 Jan 2010 · GROMMIT ABUSE THE 2nd BEST LEFT ON THIS COAST
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak if you like the easy life of predictable so-called perfection you'll probably fall head over heels for this sickly-sweet gem
9 Mar 2005 · RY My favourite break in cornwall, just keeps running on a good day. All locals that surf there are extremely kind and very uncrowded in summer compared to fistral etc. Stokesy loves the spot when hes actually in britain!
22 Sep 2004 · josh crantock is the best break in the world. hodads and newquay gimps arent welcome there.

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