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Porthcurno

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south
Surf now0–1ft1.0 m at 9 s from the W
Wind5mphN · offshore · gusts 8
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell W 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 3s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell W 5s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 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 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 8s 9s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 7s 6s 7s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 5 2 5 4 4 6 6 5 4 7 20 19 20 22 18 12 11 12 11 9 16 18 21 22 15 14 14 15 13 11 5
Tide m – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porthcurno faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sennen Cove 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

Porthcurno faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to SW; 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 SW
W
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 7 % reaches the beach

How Porthcurno works

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

Steep shore break under the Minack; big on a south swell.

Tide times

  • Mon 00:06High4.6 m
  • Mon 06:46Low
  • Mon 12:53High4.8 m
  • Mon 19:48Low
  • Tue 01:44High4.8 m
  • Tue 08:17Low
  • Tue 14:17High5.2 m
  • Tue 21:02Low

Sennen Cove station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Porthcurno Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2099676 Porthcurno Beach in October

Lee Holmes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Geertivp, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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