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Porth

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now2–4ft0.9 m at 9 s from the W
Wind6mphW · onshore · gusts 10
Tide 3.0mFalling · low 18:35 (2.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 11 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 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–6 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5
Swell 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 5s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 5 5 4 5 6 4 3 1 4 9 7 18 19 20 21 18 12 12 12 11 8 17 18 20 22 15 13 14 15 14 11
Tide m 2.7↓ 3.0↓ 3.3↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.3↑ 5.8↓ 4.0↓ 4.4↓ 1.9↓ 3.1↑ 6.2↑ 5.1↓ 5.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.9↑ 5.9↑ 6.1↓ 6.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 5.2↑ 6.9↓ 6.9↓ 3.4↓ 0.7↑ 4.1↑ 7.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porth faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Newquay 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

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

NESWfaces NWW
W
0.9 m at 9 s (swell) · 92 % reaches the beach

How Porth works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive up the coast a few miles from Newquay.

Nice beach break, often quieter than the other Town beaches around this area.. Gets some protection from northely winds from the Small island.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:35Low2.7 m
  • Mon 00:36High5.1 m
  • Mon 07:20Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:23High5.3 m
  • Mon 20:19Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:15High5.3 m
  • Tue 08:47Low2.4 m
  • Tue 14:48High5.8 m

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

Comments

18 May 2005 · ian gloucester didnt find much going off at porth really, not my cup of tea..go to towan instead

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