rest bay surf forecast

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★★★★★Fair

Faces SW all tides Offshore North East Best swell south west

Surf now1–3ft0.6 m at 8 s from the SW

Wind8mphW · cross-on · gusts 14

Tide 4.7mFalling · low 19:21 (3.5 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

2 cameras

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sun

1–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Mon

2–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Tue

1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★

Wed

0–1 ft Swell W 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★

Thu

1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★

Fri

6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★

Sat

3–4 ft Swell W 6s 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	1–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–4	3–5	4–6	5–7	6–8	3–4	3–4	3–4	2–4	2–4
Swell	8s	7s	7s	3s	7s	6s	6s	6s	6s	6s	6s	5s	4s	3s	3s	3s	3s	3s	3s	3s	3s	4s	5s	5s	5s	6s	6s	6s	6s	6s	4s
Wind mph	6	9	7	9	12	10	3	4	5	5	5	11	11	12	16	13	11	11	11	11	8	16	19	22	20	15	11	11	13	12	9
Tide m	3.9↓	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 rest bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

rest bay 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.