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Sennen Cove

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces W high tide Offshore East Best swell South West

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.3 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the S
Wind6mphNW · onshore · gusts 11
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell W 9s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 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 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6
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Wind mph 5 4 3 5 5 3 1 2 4 8 7 20 19 20 22 18 12 11 12 11 9 16 18 21 22 15 14 14 15 13 11
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sennen Cove faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

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

NESWfaces WWS
W
1.3 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sennen Cove works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
East is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Most westerly coast in Britain, just north of Lands End

Long beach break with a reef in the far corner, picks up lots of swell but very open to the winds.

Tide times

  • Sun 18:02Low
  • 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

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

Comments

4 Oct 2005 · killer yeah but sennen is protected from wind directions more
23 Sep 2005 · shizzles to crowded, to many tourists and the waters full of little bugs dat eat ya. u can garentee if thers swell at sennen, it will b about a ft bigger at gwenvor
9 Jan 2005 · kirk taylor its ier to windy to crap to crowded
3 Nov 2004 · rh to crowded and full of tourists! some good waves. real surfers hed to gwenvor
5 Oct 2004 · lulu i learnt to surf here in sennen and its a really good place to start. the waves tend to pick up as the day draws on and everyone is really friendly.

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