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Kennack Sands

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SE all tides Offshore north-west Best swell south-east
Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 9 s from the SW
Wind5mphN · cross-off · gusts 8
Tide 4.0mFalling · low 06:47 (1.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell S 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
Time 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 00
Surf ft 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 8s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 5s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 6 4 5 4 2 7 6 8 8 5 18 19 21 21 17 11 10 12 12 10 18 20 22 23 19 12 13 14 13 10 7
Tide m 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↓ 1.9↑ 3.5↑ 4.3↓ 2.7↓ 3.2↓ 1.6↓ 2.7↑ 4.7↑ 3.5↓ 4.0↓ 1.6↓ 1.8↑ 4.6↑ 4.4↓ 4.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.1↑ 4.1↑ 5.0↓ 5.1↓ 2.5↓ 0.7↑ 3.4↑ 5.4↓ 0.6↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kennack Sands faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lizard Point 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

Kennack Sands faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to S; 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 SESW
SW
0.4 m at 9 s (swell) · 22 % reaches the beach

How Kennack Sands works

Swell
Best from the south-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Mon 00:14High4.0 m
  • Mon 06:47Low1.9 m
  • Mon 12:57High4.2 m
  • Mon 19:47Low1.7 m
  • Tue 01:53High4.1 m
  • Tue 08:21Low1.8 m
  • Tue 14:24High4.4 m
  • Tue 21:06Low1.4 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Kennack Sands - geograph.org.uk - 1837924 The lane down to Kennack Sands - geograph.org.uk - 7868631

Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. David Medcalf, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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