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Westward Ho!

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 19:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 12 s from the W
Wind6mphSE · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 2.9mFalling · low 02:22 (1.7 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.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 13s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell W 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
7–10 ft Swell W 12s Wind 16 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 3–4 5–7 4–5 3–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 7–10 7–10 7–9 6–9 5–8
Swell 13s 13s 13s 11s 10s 8s 7s 7s 4s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 3s 5s 6s 8s 8s 9s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 9 10 9 7 5 9 10 7 18 22 5 5 11 16 16 17 16 15 15 16 7 7 8 7 9 16 16 18 17 16
Tide m 5.1↑ 6.6↓ 3.7↓ 1.9↑ 4.4↑ 4.4↑ 6.4↓ 4.4↓ 2.2↓ 3.8↑ 3.8↑ 6.1↑ 5.0↓ 2.7↓ 3.3↑ 3.3↑ 5.5↑ 5.5↓ 3.4↓ 2.9↑ 3.0↑ 4.8↑ 5.8↓ 4.3↓ 2.8↓ 2.9↓ 3.8↑ 5.9↑ 5.4↓ 3.1↓
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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 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

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
0.3 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % 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

  • Sat 02:22Low1.7 m
  • Sat 08:15High6.7 m
  • Sat 14:44Low1.9 m
  • Sat 20:38High6.2 m
  • Sun 02:49Low2.0 m
  • Sun 08:51High6.4 m
  • Sun 15:16Low2.2 m
  • Sun 21:17High6.0 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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