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Crantock

★★★★★Fair
River mouth Faces NW high tide Offshore South East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Sunday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.9 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the W
Wind6mphW · cross-on · gusts 11
Tide 3.3mFalling · low 20:19 (2.4 m). Works high tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

Open the Crantock (Bowgie Inn) cam by The Bowgie Inn. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Newquay › North-west · 2.2 km from the break, Newquay. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell N 6s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell N 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–6 ft Swell W 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
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 5–7 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 3–5 3–4 2–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4
Swell 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s 5s 4s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 7s
Wind mph 4 5 5 2 7 6 12 19 22 22 20 13 13 12 11 9 19 20 19 18 13 8 8 8 7 4 12 14 15 14 13
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 5.8↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↓ 3.1↑ 6.2↑ 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 5.2↑ 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.4↓ 0.7↑ 4.1↑ 7.2↓ 7.1↑ 4.3↓ 0.7↓ 3.2↑ 7.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Crantock faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Newquay 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

Crantock faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to NE; 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 NWWW
W
0.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.1 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Crantock works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Just south of Newquay, head for the Pentire for easier parking but you've got to cross the river

Lovely Bay just south of Newquay, has a river mouth at the northly end. Offers a lot of protection from winds due to step sided cliffs either side, but also picks up less swell. Parking a nightmare unless you don't mind paddling accross the river at high tide.

Tide times

  • Mon 20:19Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.3 m
  • Tue 08:47Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.8 m
  • Tue 21:30Low1.9 m
  • Wed 03:25High5.8 m
  • Wed 09:50Low1.8 m
  • Wed 15:48High6.3 m

Newquay station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

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Members' own photos of Crantock.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · GROMMIT ABUSE THE 2nd BEST LEFT ON THIS COAST
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak if you like the easy life of predictable so-called perfection you'll probably fall head over heels for this sickly-sweet gem
9 Mar 2005 · RY My favourite break in cornwall, just keeps running on a good day. All locals that surf there are extremely kind and very uncrowded in summer compared to fistral etc. Stokesy loves the spot when hes actually in britain!
22 Sep 2004 · josh crantock is the best break in the world. hodads and newquay gimps arent welcome there.

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