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Kennack Sands

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

Best of the week: Tuesday around 14:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 10 s from the S, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE
Wind5mphSE · onshore · gusts 9
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 01:35 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–4 ft Swell S 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell S 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 11s Wind 16 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 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 1–2 2–4 5–7 1–2 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0
Swell 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 6s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 8s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 12 14 15 14 13 7 14 10 15 14 4 7 15 20 17 25 25 22 21 19 9 6 5 2 4 16 12 11 15 19
Tide m 4.3↑ 4.2↓ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 3.8↑ 3.8↑ 4.4↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.3↑ 4.4↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 3.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 2.4↑ 3.8↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 2.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.3↑ 3.2↓ 1.9↓
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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 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

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 SESSE
S
0.8 m at 10 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
SE
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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 01:35Low1.5 m
  • Sat 07:19High4.7 m
  • Sat 13:54Low1.4 m
  • Sat 19:44High4.4 m
  • Sun 02:09Low1.7 m
  • Sun 07:57High4.6 m
  • Sun 14:31Low1.6 m
  • Sun 20:22High4.2 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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