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Portreath

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 10:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now15–20ftwind sea 5.4 m from the W
Wind26mphW · onshore · gusts 48
Tide 6.6mFalling · low 10:22 (1.1 m). Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
8–11 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–15 ft Swell W 11s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31
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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 15–20 14–18 12–16 11–15 9–12 5–6 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–9 9–13 9–13 9–12 9–13 11–15 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 9s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 10s 10s 10s 12s 12s 7s 7s 11s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 4s 9s 10s 10s
Wind mph 26 24 23 17 14 18 21 22 23 24 23 24 24 23 19 14 15 16 13 9 9 12 20 16 14 15 16 16 13 11 12 9 12 13 11
Tide m 5.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↓ 6.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.3↑ 5.6↑ 6.8↓ 6.9↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↑ 4.6↑ 7.2↓ 7.1↓ 4.2↓ 0.9↓ 3.5↑ 7.0↑ 6.8↑ 5.2↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↑ 5.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.8↑ 5.2↑ – – – – –
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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 NWW
W
5.4 m at 10 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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 04:02High6.7 m
  • Sun 10:22Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.0 m
  • Sun 22:42Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.0 m
  • Mon 10:59Low0.9 m
  • Mon 16:58High7.2 m
  • Mon 23:17Low0.7 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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