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Southerndown

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SW low to mid tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now2–3ft0.5 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.5 m from the W
Wind9mphW · onshore · gusts 14
Tide 5.0mRising · high 01:42 (7.2 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–3 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–5 ft Swell W 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 22 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 1–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–3 1–3 3–4 4–5 4–7 5–7 6–9 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4
Swell 8s 7s 6s 6s 3s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 4s
Wind mph 9 11 11 11 13 11 4 3 4 7 6 11 11 12 16 13 11 11 11 11 8 16 19 22 20 15 11 11 13 12 9
Tide m 4.9↑ 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 Southerndown faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Southerndown faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to NW; 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 SWWW
W
0.5 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Southerndown works

Swell
Best from the south-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north-east; anything with south-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.

Tide times

  • Mon 01:42High7.2 m
  • Mon 08:05Low3.7 m
  • Mon 14:29High7.5 m
  • Mon 21:06Low3.2 m
  • Tue 03:23High7.5 m
  • Tue 09:35Low3.2 m
  • Tue 15:58High8.2 m
  • Tue 22:19Low2.5 m

Porthcawl station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Small cairn on Southerndown Beach - geograph.org.uk - 7395658 Dunraven Bay Aka Badwolf Bay Aka Dårlig Ulv Stranden - geograph.org.uk - 1688620

Alan Hughes, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Mr M Evison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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