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Llandudno

★★★★★Flat
Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North
Surf now0ftwind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind31mphW · cross-off · gusts 52
Tide 4.7mRising · high 22:19 (7.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 4s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell E 1s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 37 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell S 2s Wind 21 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 4s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 7s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s
Wind mph 31 36 33 33 29 21 5 13 11 22 22 34 36 38 34 34 30 26 23 21 14 10 16 16 19 20 21 18 14 13 12
Tide m 3.6↑ 2.6↑ 7.2↑ 5.6↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 1.6↑ 6.9↑ 6.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 0.8↑ 6.0↑ 7.3↓ 2.8↓ 0.7↑ 0.5↑ 4.8↑ 7.8↓ 4.0↓ 0.6↓ 0.8↓ 3.4↑ 7.6↑ 5.2↓ 1.1↓ 1.6↓ 2.3↑ 6.9↑ 6.2↓ 2.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Llandudno faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Llandudno 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

Llandudno faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; 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
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Llandudno works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Head to Llandudno

Needs a massive gale driven swell to work, bad pollution and commercialisation makes this a place to avoid..

Tide times

  • Sat 22:19High7.5 m
  • Sun 03:56Low0.7 m
  • Sun 09:43High7.4 m
  • Sun 16:13Low0.9 m
  • Sun 21:54High7.8 m
  • Mon 04:33Low0.5 m
  • Mon 10:17High7.7 m
  • Mon 16:50Low0.6 m

Llandudno station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Llandudno Beach - geograph.org.uk - 5550863 Llandudno Beach - geograph.org.uk - 5489865

Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Stephen McKay, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

6 Sep 2005 · G Ive only ever seen surf at Llandudno once, years ago. But if you get up to Rhos on Sea point there is a really nice left hand point break there. Needs to be mid to high tide. Breaks over boulders. Road runs right on edge of shore so easy to check it out from the car. Usually works best later in the year, so some good surf yet to come in 05 for here.

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