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Portreath

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–4ft0.9 m at 9 s from the W
Wind6mphNW · onshore · gusts 11
Tide 2.7mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 17 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 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4
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Wind mph 6 4 3 3 6 2 4 3 6 11 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 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 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

Portreath 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
0.9 m at 9 s (swell) · 93 % 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 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, 14 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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