Porthleven surf forecast

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Porthleven

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Reef break Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore North East Best swell West

Surf now13–18ftwind sea 4.8 m from the SW

Wind31mphSW · onshore · gusts 56

Tide 3.0mFalling · low 22:51 (1.0 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

13–18 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★

Sun

6–8 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★

Mon

6–8 ft Swell S 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★

Tue

13–17 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★

Wed

5–7 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★

Thu

3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★

Fri

2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★

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Surf ft	13–18	9–12	8–11	7–10	7–9	6–8	6–8	7–10	8–11	9–12	9–13	13–17	12–16	11–15	10–13	9–12	7–9	7–9	6–8	5–8	5–7	3–5	3–5	3–4	3–4	2–4	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–4	2–4
Swell	9s	11s	11s	11s	10s	10s	6s	7s	7s	7s	7s	11s	11s	11s	11s	11s	9s	9s	9s	8s	8s	7s	8s	8s	7s	8s	8s	8s	8s	8s	8s
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Tide m	3.7↓	4.0↓	1.3↓	1.9↑	5.1↑	4.4↓	4.6↓	1.6↓	1.2↑	4.7↑	5.0↓	5.1↓	2.2↓	0.7↑	3.9↑	5.4↓	5.4↓	2.9↓	0.6↓	2.9↑	5.4↓	5.3↑	3.7↓	1.0↓	2.0↑	5.1↑	4.8↑	4.3↓	1.6↓	1.4↑	4.4↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porthleven faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthleven 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

Porthleven faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE 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.

SW: 4.8 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Porthleven works

Swell: Best from the west.
Wind: Offshore is from the north east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide: mid to high tide.
Getting there: go to praa sands and follow the signs

fast hollow reef break and can really fire on a good day,making some of our best barrells