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Kennack Sands

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SE all tides Offshore north-west Best swell south-east

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

Surf now0–1ft0.1 m at 10 s from the S, wind sea 3.6 m from the SW
Wind29mphSW · cross-off · gusts 53
Tide 3.1mFalling · low 22:57 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell S 7s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 9s Wind 17 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 0–1 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 2–3 2–3 3–4 4–5 4–6 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 29 23 19 22 16 12 20 23 22 23 27 22 21 24 23 19 17 16 15 13 10 13 16 19 18 19 18 17 17 17 17
Tide m 3.8↓ 4.0↓ 1.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.9↑ 4.4↓ 4.6↓ 1.7↓ 1.0↑ 4.4↑ 5.0↓ 5.1↓ 2.3↓ 0.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.3↓ 5.3↓ 3.0↓ 0.6↓ 2.6↑ 5.3↑ 5.2↑ 3.8↓ 1.0↓ 1.7↑ 4.9↑ 4.6↑ 4.4↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↑ 4.0↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kennack Sands faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lizard Point 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

Kennack Sands faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to S; 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 SESSW
S
0.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
SW
3.6 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How Kennack Sands works

Swell
Best from the south-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sat 22:57Low0.9 m
  • Sun 03:55High5.0 m
  • Sun 10:19Low0.9 m
  • Sun 16:10High5.3 m
  • Sun 22:40Low0.7 m
  • Mon 04:29High5.2 m
  • Mon 11:01Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:46High5.4 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Kennack Sands - geograph.org.uk - 1837924 The lane down to Kennack Sands - geograph.org.uk - 7868631

Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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