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Llantwit Major

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Reef break Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 7 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the W
Wind8mphW · cross-on · gusts 14
Tide 3.9mFalling · low 19:21 (3.5 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 6s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1
Swell 7s 2s 3s 5s 3s 3s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s
Wind mph 8 9 10 11 12 9 3 2 4 6 5 11 11 12 14 12 11 11 12 11 7 15 19 22 20 15 10 11 13 11 8
Tide m 3.9↓ 4.5↓ 3.9↑ 6.3↑ 7.5↓ 5.2↓ 5.9↓ 3.3↓ 4.7↑ 7.9↑ 6.9↓ 7.5↓ 3.4↓ 3.1↑ 7.5↑ 8.5↓ 8.8↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↑ 6.4↑ 9.6↓ 9.5↑ 5.8↓ 1.3↓ 4.9↑ 9.9↑ 9.5↑ 7.3↓ 1.4↓ 3.5↑ 9.5↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Llantwit Major faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthcawl 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 Thursday 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

Llantwit Major faces south-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SWWW
W
0.4 m at 7 s (swell) · 61 % reaches the beach
W
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 14 % reaches the beach

How Llantwit Major works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.

Boulder reef with a long right; the Vale's most reliable spot on a big swell.

Tide times

  • Sun 19:21Low3.5 m
  • Mon 01:42High7.2 m
  • Mon 08:05Low3.7 m
  • Mon 14:29High7.5 m
  • Mon 21:06Low3.2 m
  • Tue 03:23High7.5 m
  • Tue 09:35Low3.2 m
  • Tue 15:58High8.2 m

Porthcawl station, 16 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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