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Whitsand Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SW low to mid tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now12–16ft0.1 m at 8 s from the S, wind sea 4.4 m from the SW
Wind33mphSW · onshore · gusts 54
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 23:36 (1.2 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
12–16 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 33 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell S 6s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–12 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 20 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 5–7 6–9 5–8 5–7 4–6 5–7 6–9 8–11 8–10 8–11 10–13 9–12 8–12 7–10 7–10 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 5s 5s 5s 9s 9s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 10s 10s 10s 6s 10s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 33 21 19 20 15 11 23 26 24 24 24 18 17 21 18 15 13 12 13 11 7 10 13 15 13 14 12 11 11 12 13
Tide m 3.7↓ 4.9↓ 2.2↓ 1.5↑ 4.4↑ 5.2↓ 5.4↓ 2.8↓ 1.1↑ 3.6↑ 5.5↓ 5.5↑ 3.5↓ 1.0↓ 2.8↑ 5.5↑ 5.4↑ 4.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.1↑ 5.1↑ 4.9↑ 4.9↓ 1.9↓ 1.6↑ 4.5↑ 4.3↑ 5.2↓ 2.6↓ 1.4↑ 3.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Whitsand Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Whitsand Bay 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

Whitsand Bay faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SWSSW
S
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
4.4 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Whitsand Bay works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.

Three miles of cliff-backed beach between Rame Head and Portwrinkle.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:36Low1.2 m
  • Sun 04:46High5.3 m
  • Sun 10:57Low1.2 m
  • Sun 17:03High5.4 m
  • Sun 23:19Low1.1 m
  • Mon 05:27High5.4 m
  • Mon 11:40Low1.1 m
  • Mon 17:45High5.5 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Tregantle Fort Whitesands Bay - geograph.org.uk - 6259274

Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Jeffery, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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