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Porth

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

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

Surf now12–16ftwind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind32mphSW · cross-on · gusts 52
Tide 4.3mFalling · 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
12–16 ft Swell W 9s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–21 ft Swell W 10s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 10s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–9 ft Swell W 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 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 12–16 16–21 14–19 12–17 11–15 9–12 5–6 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–9 9–12 8–11 8–11 9–12 11–14 9–13 8–11 7–10 7–10 7–9 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 9s 10s 10s 12s 11s 7s 7s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s
Wind mph 32 31 29 26 22 19 18 22 22 22 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 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

Porth faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NWW
W
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 80 % reaches the beach

How Porth works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive up the coast a few miles from Newquay.

Nice beach break, often quieter than the other Town beaches around this area.. Gets some protection from northely winds from the Small island.

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, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Porth beach, Cornwall - August 2024 Sunset and waves at Porth beach - geograph.org.uk - 7033860

Mutney, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Charli, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

18 May 2005 · ian gloucester didnt find much going off at porth really, not my cup of tea..go to towan instead

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