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Holywell Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now15–20ft0.1 m at 12 s from the NW, wind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind35mphSW · cross-on · gusts 58
Tide 4.2mFalling · low 23:06 (1.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
15–20 ft Swell W 9s Wind 35 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–21 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Mon
8–11 ft Swell W 10s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Tue
13–17 ft Swell W 10s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
10–13 ft Swell W 10s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 15–20 16–21 14–19 12–17 12–15 9–13 5–7 5–7 7–9 8–10 8–11 11–14 9–12 9–12 10–13 9–13 10–13 9–12 8–11 8–10 7–10 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 6s 10s 10s 12s 7s 7s 8s 7s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s
Wind mph 35 30 29 25 21 19 19 26 24 24 28 26 25 29 25 23 20 18 17 15 11 13 15 20 19 20 18 20 20 19 16
Tide m 5.1↓ 5.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↓ 6.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.3↑ 5.6↑ 6.8↓ 6.9↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↑ 4.6↑ 7.2↓ 7.1↓ 4.2↓ 0.9↓ 3.5↑ 7.0↑ 6.8↑ 5.2↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↑ 5.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.8↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Holywell 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 Perranporth 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

Holywell Bay faces 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 WNWW
NW
0.1 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Holywell Bay works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
7-10 Miles South of Newquay.

Ok beach break that can sometime be empty. not in summer however. gets some protection from SW winds.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:06Low1.1 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.7 m
  • Sun 10:22Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.0 m
  • Sun 22:42Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.0 m
  • Mon 10:59Low0.9 m
  • Mon 16:58High7.2 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Holywell Bay ^ Carters Rocks. - panoramio Holywell Bay Beach - geograph.org.uk - 6040116

Robert Powell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

18 Jun 2005 · c.c brill waves for a 6.9 board
12 Apr 2005 · Seany Boy watergate bay is the best...in my book anyway...not so commercial as fistral..give it a go
27 Feb 2005 · surfer 24/7 fuck of fistral is lot more better than that shit hollywell
23 Jan 2005 · surfer247 holywell is for pussys go to fistral josh idiot i can handle hollywell no problem
22 Sep 2004 · josh holywell kicks ass but any one from newquay would be able to handle it. wusses!

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