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Westport

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 17:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.6 m at 5 s from the W, wind sea 0.6 m from the SW
Wind7mphSW · cross-on · gusts 14
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell E 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell W 12s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 12s Wind 3 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 2–4 2–3 3–4 2–3 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3
Swell 3s 5s 6s 4s 4s 7s 7s 3s 4s 4s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s 3s 3s 3s 2s 4s 12s 12s 11s 12s 12s 12s 11s 11s 11s 3s
Wind mph 7 15 15 13 14 11 11 16 18 13 9 6 5 5 12 13 12 12 11 9 4 3 4 3 3 3 5 7 6 4
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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 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

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 WWSW
W
0.6 m at 5 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 89 % 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 04:01High
  • Sat 10:32Low
  • Sat 16:03High
  • Sat 22:45Low
  • Sun 04:34High
  • Sun 11:06Low
  • Sun 16:32High
  • Sun 23:20Low

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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