Porthleven surf forecast

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Porthleven

★★★★★Good

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 11:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now3–4ft0.9 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE

Wind6mphNE · offshore · gusts 10

Tide 1.9mFalling · low 01:28 (1.5 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

4–6 ft Swell SW 12s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★

Sun

3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★

Mon

3–5 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★

Tue

10–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★

Wed

9–12 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★

Thu

12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★

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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	3–5	3–5	3–4	4–6	4–5	4–5	4–6	6–8	3–5	3–4	3–5	3–5	5–7	9–12	9–12	10–13	10–14	9–13	8–11	8–11	9–12	9–12	8–11	13–17	12–16	10–13	9–12	8–12
Swell	12s	4s	4s	4s	4s	7s	7s	7s	8s	9s	9s	9s	9s	4s	5s	7s	7s	7s	9s	9s	9s	9s	10s	11s	11s	11s	11s	11s	11s	9s
Wind mph	9	11	13	11	12	14	10	8	18	13	6	9	17	20	17	26	26	24	23	21	10	9	5	1	9	17	12	14	17	19
Tide m	4.5↑	4.2↓	2.0↓	1.7↑	3.9↑	4.0↑	4.4↓	2.6↓	1.6↑	3.4↑	3.4↑	4.4↓	3.1↓	1.8↓	2.8↑	2.8↑	4.3↑	3.7↓	2.1↓	2.3↑	2.3↑	3.8↑	4.1↓	2.6↓	2.0↑	2.1↑	3.2↑	4.4↑	3.3↓	1.9↓
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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 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

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: 0.9 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE: 0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 50 % 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