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Porthcurno

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

Best of the week: Friday around 18:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now17–23ft0.1 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 6.0 m from the SW
Wind31mphSW · cross-on · gusts 56
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
17–23 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
7–10 ft Swell W 11s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
10–13 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
14–19 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 14 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 17–23 7–9 3–5 8–11 8–10 7–10 6–9 9–12 10–13 10–14 11–14 15–19 14–18 10–14 10–14 10–14 7–10 6–9 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4
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Wind mph 31 25 24 23 17 12 21 23 21 23 28 21 20 25 21 18 17 15 15 13 9 13 15 19 20 22 18 20 20 17 14
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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 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

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 SWSW
W
0.1 m at 12 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
SW
6.0 m at 10 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 22:45Low
  • Sun 03:28High5.9 m
  • Sun 10:02Low
  • Sun 15:45High6.2 m
  • Sun 22:23Low
  • Mon 04:05High6.2 m
  • Mon 10:41Low
  • Mon 16:24High6.3 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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