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Whitsand Bay

★★★★★Good
Beach break Faces SW low to mid tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.1 m from the E
Wind7mphN · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 01:49 (1.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 14 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 2–3 2–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 4–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 6–8 7–9 8–10 7–10 7–9 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–6 5–7 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 4–6
Swell 10s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 10s 9s 9s 10s 7s
Wind mph 10 12 14 14 14 12 14 4 15 13 2 4 10 14 13 17 16 17 16 14 5 4 9 9 9 13 11 13 14 14
Tide m 4.4↑ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 1.9↑ 3.9↑ 3.9↑ 4.9↓ 3.2↓ 2.0↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↑ 4.8↑ 3.7↓ 2.2↓ 3.0↑ 3.0↑ 4.5↑ 4.2↓ 2.6↓ 2.5↑ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 4.5↓ 3.2↓ 2.2↑ 2.4↓ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.3↓
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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 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

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 SWSWE
SW
0.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
E
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 01:49Low1.7 m
  • Sat 07:58High5.1 m
  • Sat 14:11Low1.8 m
  • Sat 20:17High4.8 m
  • Sun 02:14Low1.9 m
  • Sun 08:34High5.0 m
  • Sun 14:42Low2.0 m
  • Sun 20:57High4.6 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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