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Harlyn Bay

★★★★★Flat
Faces N high tide Offshore South East Best swell north
Surf now0ft0.5 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SE
Wind7mphSE · cross-off · gusts 11
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 01:45 (2.1 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 13s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 10s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 12s Wind 14 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0
Swell 13s 12s 10s 9s 9s 4s 7s 7s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 11s 9s
Wind mph 8 5 13 10 7 11 10 5 19 20 5 8 12 17 14 19 20 20 19 19 6 3 7 9 11 14 19 19 19 17
Tide m 5.6↑ 6.0↓ 3.3↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.9↑ 6.0↓ 3.9↓ 2.5↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.8↑ 4.6↓ 2.9↓ 3.7↑ 3.7↑ 5.4↑ 5.0↓ 3.3↓ 3.2↑ 3.3↑ 4.8↑ 5.4↓ 4.0↓ 2.9↑ 3.0↓ 4.0↑ 5.6↑ 4.7↓ 2.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Harlyn Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Padstow 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

Harlyn Bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NWSE
W
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · 0 % reaches the beach

How Harlyn Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
it is near st merryn, past friar tucks fish and chips

Popular with locals, but they don't mind others using it. On good days, 6ft swell, with clean waves.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:45Low2.1 m
  • Sat 07:44High6.4 m
  • Sat 14:08Low2.2 m
  • Sat 20:02High6.0 m
  • Sun 02:18Low2.4 m
  • Sun 08:22High6.1 m
  • Sun 14:47Low2.5 m
  • Sun 20:41High5.7 m

Padstow station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Comments

29 Sep 2005 · Fair Play great beach bit of laugh watch out if your tryin to do the hawain beach run to the sea there are some random wholes and u dont look good when u fall over on ur board lol anyway fair play to the locals in this place
5 May 2005 · JC nice and steep found it similar to North East waves but closing out on the bigger sets...shame, tried to surf the right boiling off the rocks but only worked for three sets then tide was too high.
24 Mar 2005 · Rippers Top beach. Please keep all torists away from this spot in the summer. Great right and left handers to be found.
13 Mar 2005 · Padstow local! good for beginners, nice clean, 6ft, clear.
13 Feb 2005 · si steep but only holds up to 6ft max otherwise its a straight hander
3 Jan 2005 · caz HAlryn,probably oneof the best beach breaks in cornwall,definatly the steepest wave nd very quick with perfect conditions!holds big swell aswell!

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