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Watergate Bay

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now2–4ft1.0 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 11 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 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5
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Wind mph 5 4 4 5 6 4 5 3 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 Watergate Bay 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 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

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

NESWfaces NWW
W
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 90 % reaches the beach

How Watergate Bay works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
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

  • 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, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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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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