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Watergate Bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 12 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SE
Wind8mphSE · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 2.4mFalling · low 01:26 (2.0 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

3 cameras

Open the Watergate Bay cam by Watergate Bay Hotel. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › West: Sea Gem · 2.5 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west: Porth · 2.5 km from the break. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 13s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 6s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell W 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
11–15 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–20 ft Swell W 12s Wind 12 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–4 6–8 5–7 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 7–10 7–10 8–10 8–10 8–11 9–12 9–12 9–13 10–14 11–15 15–20 14–18 12–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 13s 12s 11s 10s 9s 4s 6s 7s 4s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 12s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 9 4 12 11 7 10 8 7 22 21 4 6 11 17 13 18 21 20 18 18 4 4 6 7 9 12 16 18 17 15
Tide m 5.5↑ 5.6↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑ 5.0↑ 4.8↑ 5.6↓ 3.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↑ 5.5↓ 4.2↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↑ 4.7↓ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Watergate Bay 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 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

Watergate Bay faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to N; 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 NWWSE
W
0.5 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Watergate Bay works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Just off the A39 between Wadebridge and Newquay.

Massive Beach with loads of breaks running along it. Picks up loads of swell so if it's small head here.. but only then. Popular with tourists and Begineers.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:26Low2.0 m
  • Sat 07:28High6.1 m
  • Sat 13:51Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:47High5.7 m
  • Sun 02:02Low2.3 m
  • Sun 08:07High5.8 m
  • Sun 14:33Low2.4 m
  • Sun 20:28High5.4 m

Newquay station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Watergate Bay

Members' own photos of Watergate Bay.

Comments

21 Jul 2005 · vannessa looks beautifull and the scenery is amazing
18 May 2005 · ian gloucester had a good few mid winter surf's here, big chunky wedges at watergate, where i began sponging its pretty sweet for that
28 Apr 2005 · the dude Lovely beach not fantastic for surfers who like the bigger waves. Has had its big days though. Really good for kitesurfers who do like the waves or learner kitesurfers
31 Mar 2005 · aaron great place to learn lots of room gets good swell but cant handle to much
5 Oct 2004 · Mark Very crowed, but pretty consistant small to mid breaks.

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