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Portreath

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW mid tide Offshore south-east Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Friday around 17:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 9 s from the W, wind sea 0.3 m from the S
Wind10mphS · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 01:58 (2.3 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
5–7 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell W 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–15 ft Swell W 12s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
7–9 ft Swell W 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–5 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 4–6 8–11 7–10 9–12 10–13 8–10 11–14 12–16 11–15 11–14 7–9 7–10 7–10 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 5–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 10s 3s 8s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 6s 7s 7s 11s 11s 12s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 4 6 14 18 16 6 6 10 15 22 15 25 25 21 22 16 15 18 17 17 17 11 14 11 11 9 7 5 5 5
Tide m 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↑ 4.2↑ 4.1↑ 5.4↓ 4.1↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↑ 4.6↓ 3.1↓ 3.1↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↑ 5.0↓ 3.7↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 5.2↑ 5.1↓ 2.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Portreath faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Portreath faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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 NWWS
W
0.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
S
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 0 % reaches the beach

How Portreath works

Swell
Best from the north-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid tide.

Harbour beach with a right off the wall at the west end.

Tide times

  • Sun 01:58Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.7 m
  • Sun 14:30Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.3 m
  • Mon 02:42Low2.6 m
  • Mon 08:55High5.4 m
  • Mon 15:23Low2.7 m
  • Mon 21:20High5.0 m

Perranporth station, 14 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Portreath , Sandy Beach - geograph.org.uk - 7459164 Surf's up at Portreath beach - geograph.org.uk - 3702177

Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Steve Fareham, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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