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Croyde

★★★★★Small
Faces W low tide Offshore South West Best swell south east

Best of the week: Tuesday around 06:00, 1–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the W
Wind8mphW · onshore · gusts 13
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 19:38 (0.9 m). Works low tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–3 ft Swell W 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 4s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–7 ft Swell W 5s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 17 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–8 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4
Swell 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s
Wind mph 7 8 7 11 11 8 9 8 4 7 6 15 16 18 20 17 14 14 14 13 11 22 23 25 24 19 18 18 17 16 14
Tide m 1.4↓ 1.9↓ 1.2↑ 3.8↑ 4.7↓ 2.5↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↓ 2.2↑ 5.1↑ 3.8↓ 4.5↓ 1.2↓ 0.7↑ 4.8↑ 5.2↓ 5.7↓ 2.1↓ -0.3↑ 3.7↑ 6.3↓ 6.5↓ 3.4↓ -0.5↓ 2.2↑ 6.9↑ 6.8↑ 4.7↓ 0.0↓ 0.7↑ 6.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Croyde faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Yelland Marsh 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 Thursday 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

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

NESWfaces WWW
W
0.7 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.1 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Croyde works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
easy to get to! but if you get lost use a map

best at low tide and as good as cornwall and really goes off in the winter

Tide times

  • Sun 19:38Low0.9 m
  • Mon 01:23High4.7 m
  • Mon 08:12Low1.0 m
  • Mon 14:04High4.8 m
  • Mon 21:11Low0.7 m
  • Tue 02:58High4.8 m
  • Tue 09:44Low0.7 m
  • Tue 15:29High5.2 m

Yelland Marsh station, 9 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
small but clean. What better way to start the day Backhand wack, made

Members' own photos of Croyde. Credits: Dave Reed, Simon Daly.

Comments

30 May 2008 · Sie Baker What a nightmare!! croyde on a weekend!! 300+ people in the water and it wasn't even surfable!! Avoid this place like the plague!! or become one of the masses!! I feel for the locals around here.. hence the removal of most devon breaks!
21 Sep 2005 · corey pryer pretty good! good waves, nice beach. Da hole lot!!!!!
21 Aug 2005 · Leo By far the best break in the uk! Check it out!
15 Jul 2005 · Professional Mike just came bak form croyde.. it was lush.. nice waves...recomend it to any body who likes ice cream and waves!!!
2 Jun 2005 · corn gotta be the best surfing beach in the country

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