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Westport

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W mid tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now12–16ftwind sea 4.5 m from the W
Wind31mphSW · onshore · gusts 56
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
12–16 ft Swell W 7s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
25–33 ft Swell W 11s Wind 40 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell S 4s Wind 5 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 12–16 25–33 22–30 20–26 16–21 13–18 4–6 4–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 8–11 12–16 14–18 13–17 12–17 7–10 8–11 6–9 6–8 6–9 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2
Swell 7s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 4s 4s 3s 6s 8s 9s 9s 9s 6s 9s 5s 5s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 31 40 41 37 36 26 6 15 22 15 22 26 25 26 24 18 13 17 14 13 11 11 14 18 20 24 7 4 4 2 1
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Westport faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Machrihanish 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

Westport faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S 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 WW
W
4.5 m at 7 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Westport works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid tide.
Getting there
By main road into Campbeltown about 5 miles out

Beach break with various peaks

Tide times

  • Sat 19:15Low
  • Sun 01:22High
  • Sun 06:30Low
  • Sun 12:50High
  • Sun 19:01Low
  • Mon 00:58High
  • Mon 07:21Low
  • Mon 13:31High

Machrihanish station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach at Westport - geograph.org.uk - 6986183 Westport Beach - geograph.org.uk - 4671292

Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. James Wood, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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