Home / Wales / Bridgend

Southerndown

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces SW low to mid tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Friday around 10:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 8 s from the SW, wind sea 0.4 m from the E
Wind11mphE · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 4.4mFalling · low 02:53 (3.0 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Wed
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
9–12 ft Swell W 11s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 4 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 3–5 5–7 6–8 6–8 5–8 10–14 14–18 15–20 14–19 12–16 9–12 9–12 9–12 9–12 8–11 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–6 4–6
Swell 7s 3s 7s 4s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 12s 12s 11s 11s 11s 11s 11s 12s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 9 9 5 9 18 7 5 5 11 19 12 15 14 12 10 9 9 9 9 8 9 9 12 16 18 9 6 2 1 2
Tide m 5.4↑ 8.1↑ 6.2↓ 3.2↓ 4.8↑ 4.7↑ 7.4↑ 6.8↓ 3.9↓ 4.2↑ 4.2↑ 6.6↑ 7.2↓ 4.9↓ 3.8↑ 4.0↑ 5.6↑ 7.3↑ 5.9↓ 3.8↓ 4.1↓ 4.5↑ 7.0↑ 7.0↓ 4.2↓ 4.6↓ 3.5↑ 6.3↑ 7.9↓ 5.0↓
Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Southerndown faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthcawl 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

Southerndown faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to NW; 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 SWSWE
SW
0.4 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
E
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 5 % reaches the beach

How Southerndown works

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

Tide times

  • Sun 02:53Low3.0 m
  • Sun 09:22High8.2 m
  • Sun 15:24Low3.2 m
  • Sun 21:42High7.6 m
  • Mon 03:35Low3.4 m
  • Mon 10:08High7.7 m
  • Mon 16:14Low3.5 m
  • Mon 22:32High7.1 m

Porthcawl station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Small cairn on Southerndown Beach - geograph.org.uk - 7395658 Dunraven Bay Aka Badwolf Bay Aka Dårlig Ulv Stranden - geograph.org.uk - 1688620

Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Mr M Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

Nothing said about Southerndown yet. Surfed it? Say what it's like.

Log in or join to comment.

Nearby