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Whitesands

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Faces NW high tide Offshore East Best swell South West
Surf now14–19ft0.1 m at 10 s from the S, wind sea 6.3 m from the W
Wind30mphW · onshore · gusts 53
Tide 4.5mFalling · low 00:40 (1.0 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
14–19 ft Swell W 10s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun
13–18 ft Swell W 8s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell S 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 25 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 14–19 13–17 13–17 12–16 10–13 7–9 1–2 2–3 0 0 0–1 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–4 4–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 10s 9s 8s 8s 7s 9s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 7s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 5s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 30 33 32 30 22 18 22 24 26 25 32 30 29 29 27 24 22 19 19 16 13 13 18 24 23 25 25 25 24 20 14
Tide m 4.8↓ 4.9↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 3.1↑ 5.2↓ 5.2↑ 3.5↓ 0.9↓ 2.3↑ 5.2↑ 5.0↑ 4.2↓ 1.1↓ 1.6↑ 4.9↑ 4.5↑ 4.8↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.8↑ 5.1↓ 2.5↓ 1.0↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↑ 5.0↑ 3.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Whitesands faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Ramsey Sound 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

Whitesands faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NWSW
S
0.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 1 % reaches the beach
W
6.3 m at 10 s (wind sea) · 80 % reaches the beach

How Whitesands works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Near St davids head in pembrokeshire

eautiful place... poor wave.. strictly begineers only here.. unless it's the right swell...

Tide times

  • Sun 00:40Low1.0 m
  • Sun 05:39High5.0 m
  • Sun 11:57Low1.0 m
  • Sun 17:57High5.2 m
  • Mon 00:18Low0.8 m
  • Mon 06:17High5.2 m
  • Mon 12:36Low0.8 m
  • Mon 18:37High5.3 m

Ramsey Sound station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Whitesands Bay - Rocks - geograph.org.uk - 7008940 Beach, Whitesands Bay - geograph.org.uk - 8362972

Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. M J Roscoe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

24 Mar 2005 · bradley I went there last summer. No surf first day. Crap weather. But the surf built up to 10', offshore wind. weather turned around. Stay away from the north end when its good, the locals don't like you getting in the way. If you go there make sure you go to the blue lagoon. you can jump off high ledges. no police, townies, only the lovely welsh humour.(locals+pikeys suck)
4 Feb 2005 · big vern yeah nightmare place stay away. Dreadfull

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