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Porthleven

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore North East Best swell West

Best of the week: Saturday around 07:00, 3–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 10 s from the SW
Wind6mphSW · onshore · gusts 11
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 18:18 (1.8 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell W 7s Wind 13 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 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–6 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3
Swell 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 10s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 6s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s
Wind mph 7 4 3 4 5 3 5 5 5 5 8 19 19 21 22 18 12 11 12 12 11 19 21 23 24 19 13 13 15 14 11
Tide m 1.8↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 4.2↑ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.8↓ 3.1↓ 1.5↓ 2.9↑ 4.9↑ 3.6↓ 3.9↓ 1.5↓ 1.9↑ 4.9↑ 4.4↓ 4.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.2↑ 4.4↑ 5.1↓ 5.1↓ 2.5↓ 0.7↑ 3.7↑ 5.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Porthleven faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Porthleven 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

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

NESWfaces SWSW
SW
0.7 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Porthleven works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
North East is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
go to praa sands and follow the signs

fast hollow reef break and can really fire on a good day,making some of our best barrells

Tide times

  • Sun 18:18Low1.8 m
  • Mon 00:02High4.1 m
  • Mon 06:53Low1.9 m
  • Mon 12:56High4.3 m
  • Mon 19:48Low1.7 m
  • Tue 01:41High4.2 m
  • Tue 08:20Low1.8 m
  • Tue 14:19High4.6 m

Porthleven station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

5 Oct 2005 · ot wicked barrels and thats about it
9 Jul 2005 · u no best waves ever
9 Jul 2005 · surfer alot of hazards but wel worth it

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