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St Agnes

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NW low to mid tide Offshore South West Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now9–12ftwind sea 4.9 m from the W
Wind31mphSW · cross-on · gusts 56
Tide 6.5mFalling · low 23:06 (1.1 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–17 ft Swell W 9s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
15–20 ft Swell W 10s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–9 ft Swell W 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 11–14 16–21 14–19 12–16 11–15 9–12 5–7 4–5 5–7 6–8 6–9 10–13 8–11 11–14 12–16 12–16 9–12 8–11 8–10 7–10 7–9 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
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Wind mph 30 27 26 22 17 14 19 20 23 28 27 26 25 29 25 23 20 18 17 15 11 13 15 20 19 20 18 20 20 19 16
Tide m 6.1↓ 5.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 6.3↑ 6.0↓ 6.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.3↑ 5.6↑ 6.8↓ 6.9↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↑ 4.6↑ 7.2↓ 7.1↓ 4.2↓ 0.9↓ 3.5↑ 7.0↑ 6.8↑ 5.2↓ 1.4↓ 2.4↑ 6.3↑ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way St Agnes faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Perranporth 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

St Agnes faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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 NWW
W
4.9 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 65 % reaches the beach

How St Agnes works

Swell
Best from the north-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
about 15-20 miles south of newquay.

Lovely right hand beach/reef break. Breaks on the northly end of the bay over rock reef, and runs into the beach. one of the best waves in the area, but a heavy favorite with the locals because of the protection it gets.. You'll see some of the best surfer the uk has here regually, but usually that's all you get to do... watch!

Tide times

  • Sat 16:42High6.6 m
  • Sat 23:06Low1.1 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.7 m
  • Sun 10:22Low1.1 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.0 m
  • Sun 22:42Low0.9 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.0 m
  • Mon 10:59Low0.9 m

Perranporth station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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Comments

25 Aug 2005 · mark rambo plenty of power,great coffee at schooners
25 Aug 2005 · Ryan There is a great beach in st agnes called chapple porth its realy worth visiting. when the surf was 1ft at newquay at chapple porth they wer about 10 to 12ft so get down there an surf.
25 Apr 2005 · thetractor I would reccomend this break to everyone. It really is worth a go.

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