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Polzeath

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell north
Surf now0ft0.4 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SE
Wind7mphSE · offshore · gusts 12
Tide 2.7mFalling · low 01:45 (2.1 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0 ft Swell W 13s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 10s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 12s Wind 14 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0
Swell 13s 12s 11s 9s 9s 4s 4s 7s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 11s 9s
Wind mph 8 5 12 11 7 10 10 3 19 21 5 8 12 17 14 19 20 20 19 19 6 3 7 9 11 14 19 19 19 17
Tide m 5.6↑ 6.0↓ 3.3↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.9↑ 6.0↓ 3.9↓ 2.5↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.8↑ 4.6↓ 2.9↓ 3.7↑ 3.7↑ 5.4↑ 5.0↓ 3.3↓ 3.2↑ 3.3↑ 4.8↑ 5.4↓ 4.0↓ 2.9↑ 3.0↓ 4.0↑ 5.6↑ 4.7↓ 2.9↓
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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 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

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 NWSE
W
0.4 m at 12 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

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 01:45Low2.1 m
  • Sat 07:44High6.4 m
  • Sat 14:08Low2.2 m
  • Sat 20:02High6.0 m
  • Sun 02:18Low2.4 m
  • Sun 08:22High6.1 m
  • Sun 14:47Low2.5 m
  • Sun 20:41High5.7 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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