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Mawgan Porth

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River mouth Faces W all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now16–21ftwind sea 5.6 m from the W
Wind32mphSW · onshore · gusts 56
Tide 4.2mFalling · low 23:09 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

2 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
16–21 ft Swell W 9s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–21 ft Swell W 10s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–8 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 10s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–9 ft Swell W 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 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 16–21 16–21 15–19 13–17 12–16 9–13 5–7 5–8 7–10 8–11 8–12 11–15 9–12 9–13 10–13 10–13 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–9 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 6s 10s 10s 12s 7s 7s 7s 7s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s
Wind mph 32 29 28 24 21 17 18 23 23 23 24 22 20 25 21 18 16 15 15 13 8 10 11 18 15 16 15 16 17 16 14
Tide m 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 6.3↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.2↓ 1.1↑ 5.6↑ 6.9↓ 7.0↓ 3.1↓ 0.6↑ 4.6↑ 7.3↓ 7.2↓ 4.2↓ 0.7↓ 3.3↑ 7.1↑ 6.9↑ 5.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.2↑ 6.4↑ 6.0↑ 6.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.7↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Mawgan Porth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Newquay 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

Mawgan Porth faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to N; 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 WW
W
5.6 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Mawgan Porth works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Between Wadebridge and Newquay on the A39

Beach break very popular with tourists.. holds a reasonable left running into a River Mouth.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:09Low0.9 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.8 m
  • Sun 10:25Low0.9 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.1 m
  • Sun 22:46Low0.6 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.1 m
  • Mon 11:03Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:58High7.3 m

Newquay station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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