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Polzeath

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell north
Surf now0ftwind sea 5.5 m from the W
Wind26mphSW · cross-off · gusts 47
Tide 4.9mFalling · low 23:26 (1.1 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell W 10s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 7s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell W 8s Wind 16 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 0 3–4 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 9s 5s 6s 10s 10s 12s 7s 7s 8s 7s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s
Wind mph 26 27 24 24 19 14 17 22 22 22 25 23 22 26 22 20 17 16 16 13 9 11 13 19 17 18 16 17 17 15 14
Tide m 5.7↓ 6.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.8↑ 6.3↑ 6.7↓ 6.9↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 5.4↑ 7.4↓ 7.5↓ 3.9↓ 0.8↓ 4.2↑ 7.6↓ 7.5↑ 5.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.9↑ 7.3↑ 7.0↑ 5.9↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 6.4↑ 6.0↑ 6.5↓ 2.9↓ 1.7↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Polzeath faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Padstow 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

Polzeath faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; 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 NW
W
5.5 m at 9 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Polzeath works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Gentle, popular and forgiving; works through the tide.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:26Low1.1 m
  • Sun 04:17High7.1 m
  • Sun 10:44Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:35High7.4 m
  • Sun 23:06Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:55High7.4 m
  • Mon 11:24Low0.9 m
  • Mon 17:16High7.6 m

Padstow station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Waves roll in at Hayle Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2823227 Cliff polzeath beach

Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Kmtextor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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