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Llandudno

★★★★★Flat
Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North
Surf now0ftwind sea 0.2 m from the S
Wind10mphS · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 6.4mRising · high 01:00 (6.6 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell E 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell E 3s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell E 3s Wind 17 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 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 2s 1s 1s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s
Wind mph 10 14 15 10 10 10 11 9 17 20 16 12 7 15 22 22 11 15 17 26 14 11 7 6 6 17 18 21 24 25
Tide m 2.4↓ 2.7↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↓ 2.7↓ 3.1↓ 2.5↑ 5.5↑ 6.2↓ 3.5↓ 3.9↓ 2.5↑ 4.6↑ 6.2↓ 4.4↓ 4.7↓ 2.9↓ 3.7↑ 5.8↑ 5.2↓ 5.3↓ 3.5↓ 3.0↑ 5.1↑ 5.8↓ 5.7↓ 4.2↓ 2.6↓ 4.2↑ 6.2↑
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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 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

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 NS
S
0.2 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 01:00High6.6 m
  • Sat 07:22Low1.9 m
  • Sat 13:15High6.8 m
  • Sat 19:49Low1.8 m
  • Sun 01:40High6.3 m
  • Sun 08:00Low2.2 m
  • Sun 13:57High6.5 m
  • Sun 20:34Low2.1 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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