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Southerndown

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now15–20ftwind sea 5.4 m from the W
Wind37mphW · onshore · gusts 60
Tide 4.1mRising · high 05:16 (9.5 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
13–18 ft Swell W 8s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
10–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 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 14–18 13–17 11–15 9–12 7–9 3–4 2–4 5–7 5–7 5–7 8–11 7–10 7–9 7–10 8–11 8–10 7–10 7–9 6–8 6–8 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 6s 5s 9s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 33 28 27 25 30 14 17 26 17 17 21 19 22 19 17 18 15 15 14 7 5 8 12 14 16 8 8 9 9 11
Tide m 9.3↓ 4.0↓ 1.6↑ 6.9↑ 9.9↓ 10.0↓ 5.4↓ 1.1↑ 5.4↑ 10.2↑ 10.0↑ 7.0↓ 1.1↓ 3.9↑ 9.8↑ 9.3↑ 8.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 8.7↑ 8.1↑ 9.4↓ 3.4↓ 1.8↑ 7.1↑ 6.5↑ 9.5↓ 5.1↓ 1.8↑ 5.5↑
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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 SWW
W
5.4 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 100 % 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 05:16High9.5 m
  • Sun 11:18Low1.4 m
  • Sun 17:35High10.0 m
  • Sun 23:39Low1.0 m
  • Mon 05:55High10.0 m
  • Mon 11:56Low1.1 m
  • Mon 18:15High10.3 m
  • Tue 00:16Low0.9 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.

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