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Hayle Rivermouth

★★★★★Small
River mouth Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell north

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 12 s from the W
Wind6mphE · cross-off · gusts 10
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 01:29 (2.0 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 13s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 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 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 3–4 4–6 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 13s 13s 12s 12s 11s 3s 6s 7s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 5s 6s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 12s 10s 10s 10s 10s
Wind mph 6 9 14 13 10 10 8 12 23 23 4 7 15 19 15 19 19 17 16 15 5 3 3 3 5 12 16 17 19 18
Tide m 5.2↑ 5.2↓ 2.8↓ 2.3↑ 4.6↑ 4.5↑ 5.3↓ 3.4↓ 2.4↑ 4.0↑ 3.9↑ 5.1↓ 4.0↓ 2.6↓ 3.4↑ 3.4↑ 4.7↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.9↑ 3.0↑ 4.2↑ 4.7↓ 3.6↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 3.5↑ 4.9↑ 4.2↓ 2.6↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Hayle Rivermouth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at St. Ives 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

Hayle Rivermouth 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 NW
W
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · 66 % reaches the beach

How Hayle Rivermouth 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
all tides.
Getting there
Turn into the caravan Park at the sourthern end of St ives Bay.. Get as close as you can to the front the run down the cliffs.

Left hander running off the Banks of the River Hayle. Nice barrelling wave.. Suffers from wind easily however

Tide times

  • Sat 01:29Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:27High5.7 m
  • Sat 13:54Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:46High5.3 m
  • Sun 02:05Low2.2 m
  • Sun 08:08High5.4 m
  • Sun 14:37Low2.3 m
  • Sun 20:29High5.0 m

St. Ives station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Hayle Estuary and Porth Kidney Sands - geograph.org.uk - 7877146 Hayle Beach - geograph.org.uk - 6726486

DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. habiloid, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · silvabak a nice, but hollow break not far from Agadir - 30kms or about 6 1/2 hrs from whitby by plane and car! Named after the ship's boiler that lies wrecked near the take-off zone!
19 Apr 2005 · BK The sand digging is redevelopment work dude. Definately needed. If you're surfing here you need your head read. Dangerous currents mean they drag at least 4 stupid arse surfers out of here a year... Unless you've got a serious death wish don't bother.
11 Dec 2004 · Adam Would be better if they wern't digging the sand from the beach - Dangerous and Destructive
17 Nov 2004 · liam walker cool place to surf

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