Llantwit Major surf forecast

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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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and cross-on.

Surf now10–14ftwind sea 4.0 m from the W

Wind34mphW · onshore · gusts 60

Tide 8.0mFalling · low 00:01 (1.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

10–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 34 mph ★★★★★

Sun

6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★

Mon

4–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★

Tue

6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★

Wed

4–6 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★

Thu

3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Fri

2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 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	10–14	11–15	10–14	9–13	8–10	6–8	2–3	2–3	3–4	4–5	3–5	5–7	5–7	5–8	6–8	6–9	6–8	5–8	5–7	5–7	4–6	3–4	3–4	2–4	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3
Swell	7s	8s	7s	7s	7s	6s	7s	7s	5s	7s	8s	5s	6s	6s	6s	6s	5s	5s	5s	5s	6s	8s	8s	8s	8s	8s	7s	8s	8s	8s	8s
Wind mph	34	30	28	29	22	25	11	16	27	17	17	20	19	22	19	16	19	15	16	13	7	5	8	11	14	14	10	10	11	11	12
Tide m	8.9↓	9.3↓	4.0↓	1.6↑	6.9↑	9.9↓	10.0↓	5.4↓	1.1↑	5.4↑	10.2↑	10.0↑	7.0↓	1.1↓	3.9↑	9.8↑	9.3↑	8.4↓	2.0↓	2.6↑	8.7↑	8.1↑	9.4↓	3.4↓	1.8↑	7.1↑	6.5↑	9.5↓	5.1↓	1.8↑	5.5↑
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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 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

Llantwit Major faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to W; 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.

W: 4.0 m at 7 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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 00:01Low1.4 m
Sun 05:16High9.5 m
Sun 11:18Low1.4 m
Sun 17:35High10.0 m
Sun 23:39Low1.0 m
Mon 05:55High10.0 m
Mon 11:56Low1.1 m
Mon 18:15High10.3 m

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

Photos

In the gallery

Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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