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Crantock

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

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 5–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the SE
Wind7mphSE · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:26 (2.0 m). Works high tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

Open the Crantock (Bowgie Inn) cam by The Bowgie Inn. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west · 2.2 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 12s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–6 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
9–12 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–14 ft Swell W 11s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–21 ft Swell W 12s Wind 12 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 1–2 2–4 2–4 3–4 6–8 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 8–11 7–10 8–11 7–10 9–12 9–12 10–13 10–13 11–14 11–15 15–21 14–19 13–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 4s 7s 7s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 7 4 11 11 6 9 8 4 17 20 4 6 11 17 13 18 21 20 18 18 4 4 6 7 9 12 16 18 17 15
Tide m 5.5↑ 5.6↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.5↓ 4.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↑ 4.7↓ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Crantock faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Crantock faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to NE; 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 NWWSE
W
0.5 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Crantock works

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

  • Sat 01:26Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:28High6.1 m
  • Sat 13:51Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:47High5.7 m
  • Sun 02:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.8 m
  • Sun 14:33Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.4 m

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

Photos

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Members' own photos of Crantock.

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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