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Harlyn Bay

★★★★★Flat
Faces N high tide Offshore South East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 2–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0ft0.9 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphW · cross-on · gusts 10
Tide 3.5mFalling · low 18:37 (2.8 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 17 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
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Wind mph 6 4 3 6 7 4 6 4 5 8 8 21 22 21 22 20 15 14 13 12 10 18 19 22 22 16 17 16 17 15 13
Tide m 2.8↓ 3.1↓ 3.4↑ 5.3↑ 5.3↓ 3.4↓ 3.8↓ 2.5↑ 4.3↑ 6.1↓ 4.4↓ 4.8↓ 2.2↓ 3.1↑ 6.3↑ 5.6↓ 6.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.6↓ 6.8↓ 3.2↓ 1.1↑ 5.0↑ 7.3↓ 7.3↓ 4.1↓ 0.9↓ 3.8↑ 7.5↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Harlyn Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Padstow 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

Harlyn Bay faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NW
W
0.9 m at 9 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %

How Harlyn Bay works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
it is near st merryn, past friar tucks fish and chips

Popular with locals, but they don't mind others using it. On good days, 6ft swell, with clean waves.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:37Low2.8 m
  • Mon 00:42High5.4 m
  • Mon 07:21Low2.9 m
  • Mon 13:29High5.6 m
  • Mon 20:25Low2.5 m
  • Tue 02:24High5.6 m
  • Tue 08:54Low2.5 m
  • Tue 14:58High6.1 m

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

Photos

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Comments

29 Sep 2005 · Fair Play great beach bit of laugh watch out if your tryin to do the hawain beach run to the sea there are some random wholes and u dont look good when u fall over on ur board lol anyway fair play to the locals in this place
5 May 2005 · JC nice and steep found it similar to North East waves but closing out on the bigger sets...shame, tried to surf the right boiling off the rocks but only worked for three sets then tide was too high.
24 Mar 2005 · Rippers Top beach. Please keep all torists away from this spot in the summer. Great right and left handers to be found.
13 Mar 2005 · Padstow local! good for beginners, nice clean, 6ft, clear.
13 Feb 2005 · si steep but only holds up to 6ft max otherwise its a straight hander
3 Jan 2005 · caz HAlryn,probably oneof the best beach breaks in cornwall,definatly the steepest wave nd very quick with perfect conditions!holds big swell aswell!

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