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Mawgan Porth

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

Best of the week: Monday around 09:00, 4–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SE
Wind9mphSE · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:26 (2.0 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

2 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 13s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell W 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–15 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–20 ft Swell W 12s Wind 12 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–4 3–4 6–8 5–7 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 7–10 7–10 8–11 8–10 8–11 9–12 9–12 9–13 10–14 11–15 15–20 14–18 12–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 13s 12s 11s 10s 9s 4s 6s 7s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 12s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 9 4 13 11 7 10 9 7 21 21 4 6 11 17 13 18 21 20 18 18 4 4 6 7 9 12 16 18 17 15
Tide m 5.5↑ 5.6↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.5↓ 4.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↑ 4.7↓ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓
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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 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

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 WWSE
W
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 01:26Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:28High6.1 m
  • Sat 13:51Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:47High5.7 m
  • Sun 02:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.8 m
  • Sun 14:33Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.4 m

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

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