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Putsborough

★★★★★Fair
Faces NW mid to high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Wednesday around 09:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SE
Wind10mphSE · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 02:32 (0.6 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 12s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
8–11 ft Swell W 11s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
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 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–5 4–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 8–11 8–11 7–10 7–9 6–8
Swell 12s 12s 12s 10s 8s 7s 7s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 3s 5s 6s 7s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 12 14 13 7 9 11 14 11 12 21 3 4 10 17 17 21 19 18 18 19 7 9 9 7 9 20 23 25 24 22
Tide m 4.0↑ 5.9↓ 2.9↓ 0.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↑ 5.6↓ 3.5↓ 0.8↓ 2.3↑ 2.1↑ 5.1↑ 4.1↓ 1.3↓ 1.4↑ 1.3↑ 4.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.0↓ 0.9↑ 1.0↑ 3.1↑ 4.6↓ 2.8↓ 0.9↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.0↓ 1.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Putsborough faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Yelland Marsh 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 Tuesday 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

Putsborough faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to N; 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 NWWSE
W
0.3 m at 12 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
SE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Putsborough works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
around the corner from croyde

a good break which is surfed at mid to high has protection from south and south westerly wind good for both short and longboarders. mosterly a surfed in winter

Tide times

  • Sat 02:32Low0.6 m
  • Sat 08:26High6.0 m
  • Sat 14:59Low0.6 m
  • Sat 20:43High5.6 m
  • Sun 03:09Low0.7 m
  • Sun 09:00High5.6 m
  • Sun 15:42Low0.6 m
  • Sun 21:19High5.2 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
North Devon , Putsborough Beach - geograph.org.uk - 4586489 Beach at Putsborough Sand - geograph.org.uk - 7937278

Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colin Park, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

28 Jun 2005 · Kristian King Awsome when Croyde is packed and onsore winds because the headland stops the winds from coming round so there is a clean wave but not that all often but if not enough swell go to wollacombe. Watch for the rocks at high tide!
24 Mar 2005 · bradley good when everywhere else is onshore
30 Jan 2005 · chasser de car park is expensive but this can be a hot break when everywhere else is blown out
18 Jan 2005 · stickygoblin the car park is an absolute rip off in the summer and its not much better in the winter - there are better places to go - honestly

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