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Great Westen

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N low to mid tide Offshore South Best swell West

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 5–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 12 s from the W
Wind5mphSE · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:26 (2.0 m). Works low to mid tide.

Live webcam

3 cameras

Open the Towan and Great Western cam by Newquay Activity Centre · Same camera as Towan, next door. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west · 1.2 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west: Porth · 1.7 km from the break. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 12s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–6 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
8–11 ft Swell W 11s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–13 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 5–7 5–6 4–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 2–4 3–4 4–5 3–4 4–5 6–9 6–9 6–8 7–9 8–11 10–13 9–13 9–12 8–11 7–10
Swell 13s 13s 11s 10s 10s 3s 6s 6s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 12s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 6 4 11 11 6 9 8 6 18 19 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 Great Westen 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

Great Westen faces north. 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 NW
W
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach

How Great Westen works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
head into Newquay park up somewhere near the train station walk up to the Barracuda walk round the back down to the beach

I mint fun wave perfect for beginners and Longboarders, clear blue water or if its to big walk up the beach to towan

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, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach Huts, Tolcarne - geograph.org.uk - 2178109 Great Western Beach from a cave in Tolcarne Point - geograph.org.uk - 4419740

Chris Andrews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Anthony Parkes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

20 Jul 2005 · Tom i luv this spot also lusty mint for Longboarders crowded with beginners but we get along..........

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