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Westward Ho!

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore south-east Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now12–16ftwind sea 4.5 m from the W
Wind28mphSW · cross-on · gusts 49
Tide 6.1mFalling · low 00:23 (1.0 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

3 cameras

Open the Westward Ho! cam by Camsecure · From Beachside Holiday Park. Opens in a new tab.

Open the Westward Ho! village green cam by Visit Westward Ho!. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Torridge › North: Westward Ho! · 0.6 km from the break, Torridge. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
12–16 ft Swell W 9s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Sun
15–20 ft Swell W 10s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell W 11s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 14 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 15–20 14–19 13–17 10–13 8–11 3–5 3–4 2–3 5–6 5–7 8–11 8–11 8–11 8–11 8–11 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 10s 9s 9s 8s 10s 9s 10s 6s 9s 9s 11s 11s 11s 7s 7s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s
Wind mph 28 32 30 25 22 20 16 17 22 15 18 21 20 23 22 20 17 16 16 12 8 7 9 16 13 16 14 14 15 14 13
Tide m 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.1↓ 1.2↑ 5.8↑ 7.7↓ 7.5↓ 4.1↓ 0.9↓ 4.4↑ 8.0↓ 7.8↑ 5.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.8↑ 7.9↑ 7.4↑ 6.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.7↑ 7.0↑ 6.5↑ 6.8↓ 2.7↓ 1.1↑ 5.7↑ 5.3↑ 7.2↓ 3.8↓ 1.2↓ 4.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Westward Ho! faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Appledore 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

Westward Ho! 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 NWW
W
4.5 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 94 % reaches the beach

How Westward Ho! works

Swell
Best from the north-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Two miles of beach below the pebble ridge; beach cams in the village.

Tide times

  • Sun 00:23Low1.0 m
  • Sun 04:50High7.4 m
  • Sun 11:38Low1.1 m
  • Sun 17:03High8.0 m
  • Mon 00:08Low0.7 m
  • Mon 05:28High7.6 m
  • Mon 12:23Low0.9 m
  • Mon 17:43High8.1 m

Appledore station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Westward Ho^ beach - geograph.org.uk - 2773954 Westward Ho^ , Sandy Beach - geograph.org.uk - 4013431

Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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