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Porthcurno

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south

Best of the week: Sunday around 16:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–5ft0.9 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.6 m from the SE
Wind7mphSE · onshore · gusts 13
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–6 ft Swell SW 12s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
9–13 ft Swell W 7s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
8–11 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–14 ft Swell W 11s Wind 18 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 4–6 3–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 7–9 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 6–9 8–11 9–12 8–11 9–13 9–12 8–11 8–11 8–11 9–12 9–12 11–15 10–14 9–12 8–11 7–10
Swell 12s 4s 4s 4s 9s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 9s 10s 11s 10s 7s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 14 14 16 15 13 13 13 13 18 19 3 5 15 19 16 22 22 21 20 18 6 3 4 3 6 11 18 16 18 18
Tide m – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porthcurno faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sennen Cove 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

Porthcurno faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 SSWSE
SW
0.9 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Porthcurno works

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

Steep shore break under the Minack; big on a south swell.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:03Low
  • Sat 06:55High5.4 m
  • Sat 13:27Low
  • Sat 19:13High5.1 m
  • Sun 01:37Low
  • Sun 07:34High5.2 m
  • Sun 14:07Low
  • Sun 19:55High4.9 m

Sennen Cove station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Porthcurno Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2099676 Porthcurno Beach in October

Lee Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Geertivp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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