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Towan

★★★★★Flat
Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 2–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0ft0.9 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphNW · cross-on · gusts 9
Tide 2.9mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 5s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 6 3 3 4 6 4 4 2 3 8 7 18 19 20 21 18 12 12 12 11 8 17 18 20 22 15 13 14 15 14 11
Tide m 2.7↓ 3.0↓ 3.3↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 5.8↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↓ 3.1↑ 6.2↑ 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 5.2↑ 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.4↓ 0.7↑ 4.1↑ 7.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Towan faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Newquay 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 Thursday 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

Towan faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NW
W
0.9 m at 9 s (swell) · 5 % reaches the beach

How Towan works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:35Low2.7 m
  • Mon 00:36High5.1 m
  • Mon 07:20Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:23High5.3 m
  • Mon 20:19Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.3 m
  • Tue 08:47Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.8 m

Newquay station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
What i think of when i think of newquay!

Members' own photos of Towan. Credits: Daz Cutts.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Close out city! only good when there a strong SW wind, but then only if you can't get else where..
2 Jun 2005 · faggots tit heads hello when newquay is blown closed out this place will be on. if ur scared of cribbar then surf here.
24 Feb 2005 · kook of the yr a world class close out,with every person goin 4 the same f...... close out.
27 Oct 2004 · Spencer Good for beginers on bad days but perfict for middlers on the amazing days

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