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Gwenvor

★★★★★Firing
Faces NW high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–4ft1.0 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE
Wind5mphSE · offshore · gusts 9
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

Open on Windy Porthleven › North: Sennen Cove Harbour Car Park · 1.0 km from the break, Porthleven. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy St Just: Sennen Beach · 1.1 km from the break, St Just. Opens in a new tab.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–4 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–15 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Thu
17–22 ft Swell W 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
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Surf ft 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 3–4 4–5 4–6 6–8 8–10 6–8 5–7 4–6 4–5 2–3 9–12 9–12 10–13 10–14 11–15 10–14 10–14 11–15 12–16 13–18 17–22 15–20 13–18 12–16 10–14
Swell 11s 11s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 9s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 11 11 15 13 11 13 12 12 20 21 3 5 15 19 16 22 22 21 20 18 6 3 4 3 6 11 18 16 18 18
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gwenvor faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sennen Cove 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

Gwenvor faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to N; 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 NWSWSE
SW
1.0 m at 11 s (swell) · 87 % reaches the beach
SE
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

How Gwenvor works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Either walk down from sennen cove Above Lands End or Turn Down Escalls Lane and walk down cliff paths.

If there's no swell here then then's no swell hitting Cornwall. Bit of a mare to get to and get suffer from Bad Rips.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:03Low
  • Sat 06:55High5.4 m
  • Sat 13:27Low
  • Sat 19:13High5.1 m
  • Sun 01:37Low
  • Sun 07:34High5.2 m
  • Sun 14:07Low
  • Sun 19:55High4.9 m

Sennen Cove station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

29 Sep 2005 · Fair Play deffinatly the place for me fully mellow hang out at night!! gd idea is 2 chek out trvedra farm carivan+campinging sight for gd cheap place 2 stay cheersxx
24 Aug 2005 · the zoid i love a bit of gwenvor action, the best thing about the place is the colour of the water, it's definately one of the most pristine breaks in kernow.
26 May 2005 · sam the man this bech kicks ass, i think its the best beach break in cornwall. if the surf is good in cornwall , its lush at sennen
13 Mar 2005 · shiznit i agree it's awsum but the rip tide is just too strong
9 Jan 2005 · kirk taylor its cool just to the curnt to strong
3 Nov 2004 · free rider surf here all the time, use to better banks, is one of the best beach breaks, good wave at aire point. no kooks at porthleven

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