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Newgale

★★★★★Small
Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore East Best swell west

Best of the week: Friday around 18:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now13–17ftwind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind30mphW · onshore · gusts 51
Tide 1.3mFalling · low 00:38 (1.0 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–17 ft Swell W 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–15 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 13–17 9–12 7–10 6–8 7–10 6–8 4–5 4–5 6–8 7–9 8–10 11–15 10–13 9–12 9–12 8–11 6–9 6–8 6–8 5–8 5–7 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4
Swell 9s 8s 8s 7s 10s 9s 8s 9s 7s 7s 10s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 7s 7s 8s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 30 32 29 28 21 17 21 24 26 25 27 22 22 24 21 17 18 15 17 13 9 9 15 20 20 20 19 20 20 16 12
Tide m 1.6↓ 5.2↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 3.5↑ 5.6↓ 5.6↓ 3.5↓ 0.9↓ 2.6↑ 5.7↑ 5.6↑ 4.3↓ 1.1↓ 1.7↑ 5.4↑ 5.1↑ 4.9↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 5.3↓ 2.5↓ 1.0↑ 3.8↑ 3.4↑ 5.3↓ 3.4↓ 1.3↓ 2.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Newgale faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Solva 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

Newgale faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S 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.

NESWfaces SWW
W
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 87 % reaches the beach

How Newgale works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Head towards St Davids from Haverfordwest. Stop at Newgale

Picks up plenty of swell, usually about 1ft less than Fresh West. Closes out a lot on low tide

Tide times

  • Sun 00:38Low1.0 m
  • Sun 05:21High5.3 m
  • Sun 11:56Low1.0 m
  • Sun 17:38High5.6 m
  • Mon 00:19Low0.8 m
  • Mon 05:58High5.6 m
  • Mon 12:38Low0.8 m
  • Mon 18:18High5.7 m

Solva station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Newgale Sands beach, looking south - geograph.org.uk - 7194313 Shingle beach at Newgale Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2927326

Rob Purvis, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Roger Davies, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

29 Dec 2004 · atom Classics close out sessions can be had. White water all the way

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