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Rhosilli Bay

★★★★★Small
Faces S high tide Offshore North East Best swell South West
Surf now16–21ftwind sea 5.6 m from the W
Wind32mphW · cross-on · gusts 53
Tide 1.5mRising · high 05:12 (8.3 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
14–19 ft Swell W 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
13–18 ft Swell W 10s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
9–12 ft Swell W 6s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 14–19 13–17 11–15 9–12 8–10 5–7 5–8 9–12 9–12 9–13 11–15 10–14 9–12 10–13 9–12 9–12 8–11 7–10 8–10 7–9 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–5
Swell 9s 8s 8s 7s 10s 8s 5s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s
Wind mph 30 32 29 22 16 22 24 26 24 28 29 26 30 26 25 24 20 19 16 12 11 15 18 17 18 17 17 16 16 15
Tide m 8.0↓ 3.8↓ 1.5↑ 5.9↑ 8.6↓ 8.7↓ 5.0↓ 1.2↓ 4.7↑ 8.9↑ 8.7↑ 6.2↓ 1.4↓ 3.3↑ 8.6↑ 8.2↑ 7.4↓ 2.2↓ 2.2↑ 7.6↑ 7.1↑ 8.1↓ 3.4↓ 1.6↑ 6.2↑ 5.7↑ 8.2↓ 4.7↓ 1.8↓ 4.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Rhosilli Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Burry Port 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

Rhosilli Bay 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 SW
W
5.6 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Rhosilli Bay works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north east; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Head to Llangenith and cross the sand dunes

Really long breaks but quite shallow, at it's wors matches an average day at Cayton

Tide times

  • Sun 00:17Low1.4 m
  • Sun 05:12High8.3 m
  • Sun 11:34Low1.4 m
  • Sun 17:30High8.7 m
  • Sun 23:55Low1.2 m
  • Mon 05:50High8.7 m
  • Mon 12:13Low1.2 m
  • Mon 18:10High8.9 m

Burry Port station, 13 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Gower Peninsula - Rhossili Bay - geograph.org.uk - 8203831 Incoming tide at Rhossili Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7887207

Chris Gorringe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

19 Aug 2013 · Waverhyder Great waves, Ideal for beginners. Can catch some very long breaks on some days, though the stairs to the bay coming from the carpark are horrendous and can be a bugger to take a board down.
27 Aug 2005 · Iain with 2 i's I went there recently and there can be some very good days. It'd be good to take a beginner to. Works best at high tide.
19 Dec 2004 · Paul Awesome place to surf! Awesome locals, Pete Jones especially!
19 Dec 2004 · Grinders Definately worth the visit

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