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Widemouth Bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Monday around 10:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 12 s from the W
Wind7mphE · offshore · gusts 11
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 13s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 6s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell W 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
10–14 ft Swell W 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
15–20 ft Swell W 12s 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 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 7–9 8–10 6–9 6–9 7–10 9–12 9–12 9–12 9–13 10–14 15–20 14–19 13–17 11–15 10–13
Swell 13s 13s 12s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 4s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 3s 6s 7s 6s 7s 8s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 9s
Wind mph 7 6 8 8 5 7 9 5 20 22 6 5 12 18 12 19 18 19 18 19 6 4 10 9 11 17 18 19 18 17
Tide m – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Widemouth 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 Bude 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

Widemouth Bay faces 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 WW
W
0.4 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Widemouth Bay works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Big, open and consistent; surf schools' home beach south of Bude.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:50Low
  • Sat 07:56High6.7 m
  • Sat 14:13Low
  • Sat 20:14High6.3 m
  • Sun 02:23Low
  • Sun 08:34High6.3 m
  • Sun 14:52Low
  • Sun 20:54High5.9 m

Bude station, 5 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Beach at Widemouth Bay - geograph.org.uk - 8310426 GCHQ Bude, seen from Widemouth Bay, with surfer in foreground

Richard Rogerson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Wizzlewick, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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