Llantwit Major
★★★★★SmallSeven days
best session each day · swipe| Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Time | 22 | 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 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Swell | 2s | 2s | 3s | 5s | 3s | 3s | 5s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 4s | 4s | 5s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 4s |
| Wind mph | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 11 | 7 | 15 | 19 | 22 | 20 | 15 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 11 | 8 |
| Tide m | 4.9↑ | 4.5↓ | 3.9↑ | 6.3↑ | 7.5↓ | 5.2↓ | 5.9↓ | 3.3↓ | 4.7↑ | 7.9↑ | 6.9↓ | 7.5↓ | 3.4↓ | 3.1↑ | 7.5↑ | 8.5↓ | 8.8↓ | 4.4↓ | 1.9↑ | 6.4↑ | 9.6↓ | 9.5↑ | 5.8↓ | 1.3↓ | 4.9↑ | 9.9↑ | 9.5↑ | 7.3↓ | 1.4↓ | 3.5↑ | 9.5↑ |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Llantwit Major faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Porthcawl 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
Llantwit Major faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE 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.
- W
- 0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 62 % reaches the beach
- W
- 0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach
How Llantwit Major 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
- mid to high tide.
Boulder reef with a long right; the Vale's most reliable spot on a big swell.
Tide times
- Mon 01:42High7.2 m
- Mon 08:05Low3.7 m
- Mon 14:29High7.5 m
- Mon 21:06Low3.2 m
- Tue 03:23High7.5 m
- Tue 09:35Low3.2 m
- Tue 15:58High8.2 m
- Tue 22:19Low2.5 m
Porthcawl station, 16 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the gallery
Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Dominic Nelson, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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