Llantwit Major
★★★★★SmallBest of the week: Wednesday around 09:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.
Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sat 14 | Sun 15 | Mon 16 | Tue 17 | Wed 18 | Thu 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 4–5 | 5–7 | 4–5 | 3–4 | 5–6 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 8–11 | 8–11 | 8–11 | 7–10 | 7–9 |
| Swell | 11s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 5s | 3s | 4s | 4s | 7s | 6s | 6s | 7s | 3s | 3s | 7s | 5s | 7s | 7s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 11s | 11s | 10s | 10s | 9s | 9s |
| Wind mph | 8 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 10 | 13 | 20 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 9 | 7 | 8 | 17 | 19 | 19 | 18 | 17 |
| Tide m | 6.3↑ | 8.6↓ | 5.3↓ | 2.8↑ | 5.6↑ | 5.4↑ | 8.1↑ | 6.2↓ | 3.2↓ | 4.8↑ | 4.7↑ | 7.4↑ | 6.8↓ | 3.9↓ | 4.2↑ | 4.2↑ | 6.6↑ | 7.2↓ | 4.9↓ | 3.8↑ | 4.0↑ | 5.6↑ | 7.3↑ | 5.9↓ | 3.8↓ | 4.1↓ | 4.5↑ | 7.0↑ | 7.0↓ | 4.2↓ |
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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 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
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
- 0.1 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- SE
- 0.1 m at 1 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
- Sat 02:19Low2.6 m
- Sat 08:45High8.6 m
- Sat 14:43Low2.8 m
- Sat 21:03High8.0 m
- Sun 02:53Low3.0 m
- Sun 09:22High8.2 m
- Sun 15:24Low3.2 m
- Sun 21:42High7.6 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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