Watergate Bay
★★★★★FairBest of the week: Friday around 00:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.
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Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sat 17 | Sun 18 | Mon 19 | Tue 20 | Wed 21 | Thu 22 | Fri 23 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 00 |
| Surf ft | 5–7 | 5–7 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 4–5 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 3–5 | 3–5 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 5–7 | 8–11 | 9–12 | 9–12 | 8–11 | 6–8 | 5–8 | 5–7 | 5–8 | 5–8 | 6–8 |
| Swell | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 8s | 9s | 10s | 11s | 11s | 12s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 9s | 5s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 9s | 7s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s |
| Wind mph | 4 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 21 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 24 | 10 | 10 | 16 | 15 | 11 | 7 |
| Tide m | 3.7↑ | 5.5↑ | 4.6↓ | 2.8↓ | 3.4↑ | 3.4↑ | 4.9↑ | 4.8↓ | 3.4↓ | 3.2↑ | 3.4↑ | 4.3↑ | 4.9↓ | 4.1↓ | 3.3↓ | 3.4↓ | 3.7↑ | 4.7↑ | 4.6↓ | 3.4↓ | 3.6↓ | 3.0↑ | 4.4↑ | 5.3↓ | 3.8↓ | 4.1↓ | 2.4↓ | 3.7↑ | 5.8↑ | 4.5↓ | – |
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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.
- W
- 1.8 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- N
- 0.7 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 64 % reaches the beach
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 03:19Low2.4 m
- Sat 09:26High5.6 m
- Sat 15:48Low2.6 m
- Sat 21:46High5.2 m
- Sun 04:01Low2.9 m
- Sun 10:16High5.2 m
- Sun 16:47Low3.1 m
- Sun 22:46High4.8 m
Newquay station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the gallery
Members' own photos of Watergate Bay.
Comments
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