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Westward Ho!

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore south-east Best swell north-west
Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 8 s from the W, wind sea 0.1 m from the SW
Wind5mphSW · cross-off · gusts 6
Tide 5.3mRising · high 01:13 (5.7 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 23 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–3 1–3 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–3 1–3 1–2 3–4 2–4 2–3 1–3 1–3
Swell 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s
Wind mph 5 4 5 8 9 7 7 7 2 9 7 12 13 16 18 14 11 12 13 13 10 18 19 20 20 17 15 15 16 15 12
Tide m 4.7↑ 3.3↓ 3.0↑ 5.2↑ 5.8↓ 3.8↓ 4.3↓ 2.5↓ 4.0↑ 6.4↑ 5.0↓ 5.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.5↑ 6.3↑ 6.4↓ 6.6↓ 3.2↓ 1.4↑ 5.4↑ 7.4↓ 7.3↓ 4.3↓ 1.0↓ 4.1↑ 7.9↓ 7.5↑ 5.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.7↑ 7.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Westward Ho! faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Appledore 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

Westward Ho! faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to N; 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 NWWSW
W
0.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
SW
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Westward Ho! works

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

Two miles of beach below the pebble ridge; beach cams in the village.

Tide times

  • Mon 01:13High5.7 m
  • Mon 07:48Low2.8 m
  • Mon 13:59High6.0 m
  • Mon 20:57Low2.4 m
  • Tue 02:53High5.9 m
  • Tue 09:28Low2.4 m
  • Tue 15:27High6.4 m
  • Tue 22:16Low1.9 m

Appledore station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Westward Ho^ beach - geograph.org.uk - 2773954 Westward Ho^ , Sandy Beach - geograph.org.uk - 4013431

Stacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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