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Polzeath

★★★★★Firing
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell north

Best of the week: today around 22:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–4ft0.8 m at 9 s from the W
Wind2mphS · offshore · gusts 4
Tide 4.6mRising · high 00:42 (5.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–4 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sat
4–6 ft Swell W 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 5–7 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5
Swell 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 2 5 4 5 7 4 6 3 2 9 9 21 22 21 22 20 15 14 13 12 10 18 19 22 22 16 17 16 17 15 13
Tide m 4.3↑ 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 Polzeath faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Polzeath faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NW
W
0.8 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Polzeath works

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

Gentle, popular and forgiving; works through the tide.

Tide times

  • 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
  • Tue 21:41Low2.0 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Waves roll in at Hayle Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2823227 Cliff polzeath beach

Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Kmtextor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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