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Fistral

★★★★★Fair
Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Friday around 12:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.5 m from the S
Wind10mphS · offshore · gusts 19
Tide 3.0mFalling · low 02:02 (2.3 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

4 cameras

Open the Fistral Beach cam by Women + Waves Society · South and North Fistral and the Cribbar. Opens in a new tab.

Open the Fistral (Ann's Cottage) cam by Ann's Cottage. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west · 0.6 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west: Porth · 3.5 km from the break. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
17–23 ft Swell W 12s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–14 ft Swell W 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 0–1 1–2 1–2 3–5 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 3–5 5–8 6–8 4–6 10–13 11–15 15–20 17–23 16–21 15–19 10–13 10–14 10–14 10–13 9–12 7–10 7–9 6–8 6–8 5–7
Swell 8s 4s 4s 5s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 8s 7s 11s 12s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 5 11 11 18 15 7 6 9 14 23 14 23 21 18 18 14 14 14 14 14 13 7 9 8 11 5 4 5 5 5
Tide m 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↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 5.2↑ 5.2↓ 2.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Fistral 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 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

Fistral faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NWWS
W
0.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
S
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Fistral 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
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 02:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.8 m
  • Sun 14:33Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.4 m
  • Mon 02:44Low2.6 m
  • Mon 08:55High5.5 m
  • Mon 15:25Low2.7 m
  • Mon 21:20High5.1 m

Newquay station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
a moment never to be seen at north fistral....empty perfection! Noth Fistral, Infront of the Headland Hotel Fistral Fistral South Fistral hurricane Fabien 2003 Fistral Fistral

Members' own photos of Fistral. Credits: shaun mccormick, Eve Kirkhan, Daz Cutts, Hairy Mary.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Has good banks and is one of the UK's most consistent breaks, but if you can get a wave on your own here you surf in the dark.. and even then only if they're not running a night comp!
29 Sep 2005 · dude what you on about when it's over 4ft and raining if its clean there are always people out have you been taking drugs lately mate. you probably haven't even been there the only time when it's crap is when it's summer and all the kooks are there.
24 Aug 2005 · cornish expat the best way to beat the rat race in the water is to work on the west coast of ireland during summer months, the place rocks!! scored crab island 2 weeks ago solid 4-6 foot medium crowd epic waves, fisty 2foot clean and mobbed, the most anoying thing about fisty is the relentless chanting of the life guards screaming at every one to respect the rules and regulations, bollocks to that escape to the emerald isle, the grass really is sweater on the other side!!!!
26 Jul 2005 · Davie The crowds, oh my god, the people, where do they all come from.
25 Apr 2005 · foulflaps Full of ugly, stupid tourists and retarded mutant locals.
15 Mar 2005 · adie_666 Surfing at fistural was class surfing on christmas day
3 Feb 2005 · harrold shipman! to busy in the summer and to blown out in the winter. ............but i still love it to bits!!!!!!!
24 Jan 2005 · eddie winter good summer shit-too many people

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