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Challaborough

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces SW all tides Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 9 s from the SW
Wind1mphN · offshore · gusts 4
Tide 3.8mRising · high 01:11 (3.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 23 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 2s 6s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s
Wind mph 1 4 4 4 6 4 8 10 9 10 5 8 15 17 17 13 8 9 12 11 8 16 17 20 22 18 9 10 12 11 9
Tide m 3.5↑ 2.4↓ 2.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.0↓ 2.6↓ 3.0↓ 2.0↑ 3.1↑ 4.3↑ 3.4↓ 3.8↓ 1.9↓ 2.3↑ 4.3↑ 4.2↓ 4.5↓ 2.2↓ 1.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.9↓ 4.9↓ 2.8↓ 1.0↑ 3.1↑ 5.2↑ 5.1↑ 3.6↓ 0.8↓ 2.3↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Challaborough faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Salcombe 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

Challaborough faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW 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 SWSW
SW
0.4 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Challaborough 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
all tides.

Next bay west of Bantham.

Tide times

  • Mon 01:11High3.9 m
  • Mon 07:21Low2.2 m
  • Mon 13:45High4.2 m
  • Mon 20:17Low2.0 m
  • Tue 03:00High4.0 m
  • Tue 08:58Low2.0 m
  • Tue 15:19High4.3 m
  • Tue 21:43Low1.8 m

Salcombe station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Challaborough Bay, Devon, From the SW coastal path - geograph.org.uk - 5423287 Looking across Challaborough Bay to Beacon Point in the far distance, Devon - geograph.org.uk - 5422990

Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Derek Voller, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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