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Whitsand Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SW low to mid tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 9 s from the SW
Wind4mphN · offshore · gusts 6
Tide 4.2mRising · high 01:01 (4.3 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 10 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 9s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 5s 5s
Wind mph 4 7 6 4 5 3 7 6 5 3 5 14 17 17 17 14 8 8 11 11 9 14 15 17 19 15 10 11 13 12 10
Tide m 3.9↑ 2.5↓ 2.7↑ 4.2↑ 4.4↓ 2.8↓ 3.3↓ 2.1↓ 3.3↑ 4.8↑ 3.7↓ 4.1↓ 2.0↓ 2.4↑ 4.8↑ 4.5↓ 4.8↓ 2.3↓ 1.6↑ 4.3↑ 5.2↓ 5.3↓ 2.9↓ 1.1↑ 3.5↑ 5.6↓ 5.4↑ 3.7↓ 1.0↓ 2.7↑ 5.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Whitsand Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Whitsand Bay 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

Whitsand Bay faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SWSW
SW
0.4 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Whitsand Bay 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.

Three miles of cliff-backed beach between Rame Head and Portwrinkle.

Tide times

  • Mon 01:01High4.3 m
  • Mon 07:17Low2.3 m
  • Mon 13:44High4.6 m
  • Mon 20:28Low2.1 m
  • Tue 02:50High4.4 m
  • Tue 09:07Low2.1 m
  • Tue 15:14High4.8 m
  • Tue 21:48Low1.8 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Tregantle Fort Whitesands Bay - geograph.org.uk - 6259274

Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Jeffery, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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