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Rhosilli Bay

★★★★★Small
Faces S high tide Offshore North East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 0.3 m from the S
Wind8mphS · onshore · gusts 12
Tide 4.1mFalling · low 02:35 (2.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–9 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
8–11 ft Swell W 10s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
12–17 ft Swell W 11s Wind 21 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 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 8–11 6–8 6–8 6–9 8–11 8–10 8–11 8–11 8–11 13–17 13–18 12–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 11s 9s 3s 3s 8s 7s 7s 5s 5s 4s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 10 13 20 17 18 14 14 13 19 22 7 7 14 20 23 22 16 17 14 9 9 8 10 10 10 19 21 21 19 17
Tide m 5.5↑ 7.5↓ 4.8↓ 2.6↑ 4.9↑ 4.7↑ 7.1↑ 5.5↓ 3.0↓ 4.2↑ 4.1↑ 6.6↑ 6.0↓ 3.6↓ 3.7↑ 3.7↑ 5.8↑ 6.4↓ 4.4↓ 3.4↑ 3.6↑ 4.9↑ 6.4↑ 5.3↓ 3.5↓ 3.7↓ 3.9↑ 6.2↑ 6.2↓ 3.9↓
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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 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

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 SSWS
SW
0.5 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.3 m at 2 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

  • Sat 02:35Low2.5 m
  • Sat 08:39High7.5 m
  • Sat 14:59Low2.6 m
  • Sat 20:57High7.1 m
  • Sun 03:09Low2.8 m
  • Sun 09:17High7.2 m
  • Sun 15:39Low2.9 m
  • Sun 21:37High6.7 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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