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Praa Sands

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Beach break Faces S low to mid tide Offshore north Best swell south

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–5ft0.7 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 1.2 m from the S
Wind18mphS · onshore · gusts 30
Tide 2.2mFalling · low 02:08 (1.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 8s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
13–17 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
12–16 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
9–12 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 12 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 4–5 3–5 3–5 5–7 6–8 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 8–11 9–13 10–13 10–13 11–14 13–17 12–16 12–16 11–15 11–15 13–18 14–19 13–18 12–16 11–15 9–12 7–10 6–9 5–7 5–7
Swell 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 8s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 7s 11s 8s 12s 7s 12s 7s 10s 11s 11s 11s 11s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s
Wind mph 5 7 11 17 13 4 8 13 20 18 21 28 25 24 24 19 19 22 22 19 22 15 18 15 10 12 5 3 4 6
Tide m 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↓ 2.0↓ 2.5↑ 4.4↑ 4.0↓ 2.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Praa Sands 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 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

Praa Sands faces south. 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.

NESWfaces SSWS
SW
0.7 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.2 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Praa Sands works

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

The south coast's banker when the north coast is blown out by a northerly.

Tide times

  • Sun 02:08Low1.7 m
  • Sun 07:48High4.7 m
  • Sun 14:34Low1.6 m
  • Sun 20:09High4.2 m
  • Mon 02:53Low1.9 m
  • Mon 08:37High4.5 m
  • Mon 15:22Low1.8 m
  • Mon 21:01High4.1 m

Porthleven station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Praa Sands - Sydney Cove - geograph.org.uk - 3214968 Stream on the beach, Praa Sands - geograph.org.uk - 8358013

Stuart Logan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Des Blenkinsopp, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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