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Widemouth Bay

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 9 s from the W
Wind6mphW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
4–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6
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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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WW
W
0.8 m at 9 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

  • Sun 18:42Low
  • Mon 00:57High5.5 m
  • Mon 07:26Low
  • Mon 13:44High5.8 m
  • Mon 20:30Low
  • Tue 02:38High5.8 m
  • Tue 08:59Low
  • Tue 15:12High6.3 m

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

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