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Tenby

★★★★★Fair
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell east
Surf now1–2ft2.4 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 2.3 m from the SW
Wind18mphW · offshore · gusts 32
Tide 3.7mFalling · low 23:53 (1.3 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell S 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 21 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 2–3 3–4 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 11s 11s 11s 10s 10s 5s 5s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 3s 3s 3s 5s 6s
Wind mph 18 26 25 25 19 13 19 22 22 22 29 28 27 31 26 24 23 20 20 15 12 14 19 22 20 22 22 22 20 19 17
Tide m 4.3↓ 7.6↓ 3.1↓ 1.6↑ 6.3↑ 8.2↓ 8.4↓ 4.2↓ 1.0↑ 5.1↑ 8.7↓ 8.6↑ 5.5↓ 1.0↓ 3.7↑ 8.6↑ 8.2↑ 6.8↓ 1.6↓ 2.5↑ 7.8↑ 7.3↑ 7.6↓ 2.7↓ 1.7↑ 6.5↑ 6.0↑ 7.9↓ 4.0↓ 1.7↑ 5.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Tenby faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Tenby 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

Tenby faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to S; 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 ESWSW
SW
2.4 m at 11 s (swell) · 17 % reaches the beach
SW
2.3 m at 8 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Tenby works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the north west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Drive to South Wales... look at a map, follow the road to tenby...

Needs a big swell to work but works in the prevailing Westerly winds.. worth a visit i guess..

Tide times

  • Sat 23:53Low1.3 m
  • Sun 04:56High8.1 m
  • Sun 11:10Low1.3 m
  • Sun 17:15High8.5 m
  • Sun 23:32Low0.9 m
  • Mon 05:35High8.5 m
  • Mon 11:50Low1.0 m
  • Mon 17:55High8.7 m

Tenby station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
North Beach Tenby taken from The Croft - geograph.org.uk - 4844724 North Beach, Tenby - geograph.org.uk - 5505668

welshbabe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. PAUL FARMER, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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