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Porthtowan

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW high tide Offshore South East Best swell South West
Surf now3–4ft1.0 m at 9 s from the W
Wind6mphNW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide 2.9mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 5–7 4–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5
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Wind mph 6 3 3 3 7 3 3 0 7 9 9 21 21 22 23 21 15 14 14 13 10 19 20 22 23 17 18 17 17 16 14
Tide m 2.7↓ 3.0↓ 3.2↑ 4.9↑ 4.9↓ 3.1↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.2↑ 5.7↓ 3.9↓ 4.4↓ 2.0↓ 3.2↑ 6.1↑ 5.0↓ 5.4↓ 2.1↓ 2.1↑ 5.9↑ 6.0↓ 6.3↓ 2.6↓ 1.3↑ 5.2↑ 6.8↓ 6.8↓ 3.4↓ 0.9↑ 4.2↑ 7.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porthtowan faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Perranporth 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 Thursday 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

Porthtowan faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWW
W
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 93 % reaches the beach

How Porthtowan works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.

Full on beach break, swith good protection from the winds.. can get busy, and every time i've surfed here i've come out injured.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:35Low2.7 m
  • Mon 00:36High5.0 m
  • Mon 07:20Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:23High5.2 m
  • Mon 20:18Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.2 m
  • Tue 08:46Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.7 m

Perranporth station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

3 Oct 2005 · sam da man wow. 2 weeks ago was so lush. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! amamzing! was a saturday! so good, so clean and hollow
24 Sep 2005 · surfergirl yeh this my local break and its hectic! dusnt get that big but wen its firing its sick to surf .
26 May 2005 · sam (spunger) i love it. can dump at high tide. i was there once, it held the most lushest 5ft glassy wave. try it when its working
19 Apr 2005 · BK Surfed here a few days ago, good break... not too big tho. Quiet, i guess you have to go out of season and mid week... Had it to myself ohh yeah.

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