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Whitesands

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Faces NW high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 09:00, 4–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.7 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.3 m from the S
Wind9mphSE · offshore · gusts 15
Tide 2.9mFalling · low 02:58 (1.8 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
7–9 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–5 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 17 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 0 0–1 1–2 2–3 6–8 5–7 4–5 2–3 1–2 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–6 6–9 6–9 6–8 5–7 4–6
Swell 9s 4s 5s 5s 5s 8s 8s 5s 7s 5s 8s 7s 8s 8s 4s 3s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 10 16 17 17 19 11 13 13 21 21 10 5 14 18 22 18 15 13 12 12 12 9 10 9 9 17 17 20 20 19
Tide m 3.1↑ 4.5↑ 3.3↓ 1.9↓ 2.8↑ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↑ 2.6↑ 3.8↑ 3.8↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 2.6↑ 3.4↑ 3.9↓ 3.1↓ 2.5↑ 2.7↓ 3.1↑ 3.8↑ 3.5↓ 2.6↓ 2.8↓ 2.7↑ 3.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.8↓
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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 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

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 NWSWS
SW
0.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 30 % reaches the beach
S
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 0 % 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

  • Sat 02:58Low1.8 m
  • Sat 09:06High4.5 m
  • Sat 15:22Low1.9 m
  • Sat 21:24High4.2 m
  • Sun 03:32Low2.1 m
  • Sun 09:44High4.3 m
  • Sun 16:02Low2.1 m
  • Sun 22:04High4.0 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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