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Widemouth Bay

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now15–19ftwind sea 5.3 m from the W
Wind31mphSW · onshore · gusts 55
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
15–19 ft Swell W 9s Wind 31 mph ★★★★★
Sun
16–21 ft Swell W 9s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
13–18 ft Swell W 11s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
8–10 ft Swell W 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 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 15–19 16–21 15–20 13–17 11–15 9–12 4–6 3–5 5–7 6–8 6–9 10–14 10–13 9–13 8–12 10–14 10–13 9–12 8–11 8–11 7–10 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4
Swell 9s 9s 9s 8s 10s 10s 9s 10s 6s 9s 10s 11s 11s 11s 7s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s
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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 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

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
5.3 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 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 23:31Low
  • Sun 04:29High7.4 m
  • Sun 10:49Low
  • Sun 16:47High7.8 m
  • Sun 23:11Low
  • Mon 05:07High7.8 m
  • Mon 11:29Low
  • Mon 17:27High8.0 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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