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Tenby

★★★★★Small
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell east

Best of the week: Tuesday around 07:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 0.3 m from the SE
Wind7mphE · onshore · gusts 11
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 02:11 (2.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell S 4s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 20 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–4 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 4–6 2–3 1–2 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 4s 6s 7s 9s 9s 9s 8s 4s 4s 6s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 10 14 18 14 16 13 7 11 14 14 7 7 15 22 23 22 15 15 11 9 10 10 11 9 12 20 21 23 21 19
Tide m 5.7↑ 7.2↓ 4.3↓ 2.6↑ 5.0↑ 4.9↑ 6.9↑ 5.0↓ 2.9↓ 4.4↑ 4.3↑ 6.4↑ 5.6↓ 3.4↓ 3.8↑ 3.9↑ 5.7↑ 6.0↓ 4.1↓ 3.5↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↑ 6.1↓ 4.9↓ 3.4↓ 3.6↓ 4.1↑ 6.1↑ 5.7↓ 3.5↓
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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 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

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 ESWSE
SW
0.4 m at 10 s (swell) · 27 % reaches the beach
SE
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

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 02:11Low2.4 m
  • Sat 08:25High7.3 m
  • Sat 14:35Low2.5 m
  • Sat 20:43High6.8 m
  • Sun 02:45Low2.8 m
  • Sun 09:02High6.9 m
  • Sun 15:14Low2.9 m
  • Sun 21:22High6.4 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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