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Sennen Cove

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces NW high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft1.0 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the SE
Wind6mphE · offshore · gusts 10
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Live webcam

3 cameras

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Open on Windy St Just: Sennen Beach · 0.3 km from the break, St Just. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Porthleven › North: Sennen Cove Harbour Car Park · 0.5 km from the break, Porthleven. Opens in a new tab.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
9–12 ft Swell W 11s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Thu
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 11 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–4 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–6 2–3 1–2 4–6 5–7 8–11 8–11 7–10 8–11 8–11 8–11 9–12 10–14 12–16 11–15 10–13 10–14 8–11
Swell 11s 11s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 9s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 10 10 15 12 10 12 11 11 20 20 3 5 15 19 16 22 22 21 20 18 6 3 4 3 6 11 18 16 18 18
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sennen Cove faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sennen Cove 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

Sennen Cove 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 NWSWSE
SW
1.0 m at 11 s (swell) · 26 % reaches the beach
SE
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

How Sennen Cove 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
high tide.
Getting there
Most westerly coast in Britain, just north of Lands End

Long beach break with a reef in the far corner, picks up lots of swell but very open to the winds.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:03Low
  • Sat 06:55High5.4 m
  • Sat 13:27Low
  • Sat 19:13High5.1 m
  • Sun 01:37Low
  • Sun 07:34High5.2 m
  • Sun 14:07Low
  • Sun 19:55High4.9 m

Sennen Cove station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Sennen Cove Harbour from air Fossick Sennen Beach from air Fossick

Fossick OU, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Fossick OU, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

4 Oct 2005 · killer yeah but sennen is protected from wind directions more
23 Sep 2005 · shizzles to crowded, to many tourists and the waters full of little bugs dat eat ya. u can garentee if thers swell at sennen, it will b about a ft bigger at gwenvor
9 Jan 2005 · kirk taylor its ier to windy to crap to crowded
3 Nov 2004 · rh to crowded and full of tourists! some good waves. real surfers hed to gwenvor
5 Oct 2004 · lulu i learnt to surf here in sennen and its a really good place to start. the waves tend to pick up as the day draws on and everyone is really friendly.

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