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Gwenvor

★★★★★Fair
Faces W high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

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

Surf now4–6ft1.3 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the S
Wind6mphNW · onshore · gusts 11
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 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 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6
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Wind mph 5 4 3 5 5 3 4 3 4 8 7 20 19 20 22 18 12 11 12 11 9 16 18 21 22 15 14 14 15 13 11
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Gwenvor faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Sennen Cove 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

Gwenvor 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 WWS
W
1.3 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Gwenvor works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Either walk down from sennen cove Above Lands End or Turn Down Escalls Lane and walk down cliff paths.

If there's no swell here then then's no swell hitting Cornwall. Bit of a mare to get to and get suffer from Bad Rips.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:02Low
  • Mon 00:06High4.6 m
  • Mon 06:46Low
  • Mon 12:53High4.8 m
  • Mon 19:48Low
  • Tue 01:44High4.8 m
  • Tue 08:17Low
  • Tue 14:17High5.2 m

Sennen Cove station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

29 Sep 2005 · Fair Play deffinatly the place for me fully mellow hang out at night!! gd idea is 2 chek out trvedra farm carivan+campinging sight for gd cheap place 2 stay cheersxx
24 Aug 2005 · the zoid i love a bit of gwenvor action, the best thing about the place is the colour of the water, it's definately one of the most pristine breaks in kernow.
26 May 2005 · sam the man this bech kicks ass, i think its the best beach break in cornwall. if the surf is good in cornwall , its lush at sennen
13 Mar 2005 · shiznit i agree it's awsum but the rip tide is just too strong
9 Jan 2005 · kirk taylor its cool just to the curnt to strong
3 Nov 2004 · free rider surf here all the time, use to better banks, is one of the best beach breaks, good wave at aire point. no kooks at porthleven

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