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Towan

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 08:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now3–5ftwind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind30mphSW · cross-off · gusts 54
Tide 4.3mFalling · low 23:09 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

3 cameras

Open the Towan Beach cam by Newquay Activity Centre. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west · 0.5 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west: Porth · 2.4 km from the break. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 12s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell W 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell W 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 3–5 10–14 10–14 6–8 8–10 6–9 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0
Swell 9s 10s 9s 8s 11s 10s 10s 5s 9s 10s 10s 12s 11s 7s 7s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s
Wind mph 30 27 26 22 19 16 17 20 21 20 24 22 20 25 21 18 16 15 15 13 8 10 11 18 15 16 15 16 17 16 14
Tide m 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 6.3↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.2↓ 1.1↑ 5.6↑ 6.9↓ 7.0↓ 3.1↓ 0.6↑ 4.6↑ 7.3↓ 7.2↓ 4.2↓ 0.7↓ 3.3↑ 7.1↑ 6.9↑ 5.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.2↑ 6.4↑ 6.0↑ 6.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.7↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Towan faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Towan faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NW
W
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 24 % reaches the beach

How Towan works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:09Low0.9 m
  • Sun 04:02High6.8 m
  • Sun 10:25Low0.9 m
  • Sun 16:19High7.1 m
  • Sun 22:46Low0.6 m
  • Mon 04:39High7.1 m
  • Mon 11:03Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:58High7.3 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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