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Today at Platja de Santa Ponça: Excellent for kite foiling — 87/100 for expert level. Wind 5 kn W · Waves 1.0 m, 6 s · Tide -0.4 to -0.3 m. Best window around 10:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Platja de Santa Ponça: 0.9m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the late morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 24°C / 76°F.
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Satellite-derived bathymetry with 10 m pixels and 10 cm vertical resolution out to ~40 m depth. The shape of the seabed is what determines where and how waves break.
Most apps run a single global model at 9–25 km. We blend regional NWP from national meteorological offices at 1.3–2 km — UK Met Office UKV, Météo-France AROME HD, ItaliaMeteo ICON-2I — with ECMWF IFS for the 8-day horizon. Finer resolution means the sea breeze, cliff funnelling and bay shadowing that changes everything for a session.
A nearshore wave model propagates the spectrum across the bathymetric mesh — modelling refraction, shoaling, dissipation, focusing and breaking as it goes. Most apps stop at swell + wind. We go further.
10 sport models × 4 ability levels weight wave height, period, wind, tide and breaking conditions differently — calibrated against ridden sessions so the scores mean what they say.
A long, gently shelving sandy beach at the head of a sheltered bay, with shallow, usually calm water well suited to swimming and family paddling. The bay only roughens with wind from south, southeast or east. Watersports such as windsurfing and kitesurfing are restricted to outside the buoyed bathers' zone, and anchoring is banned along this stretch of coast. Blue Flag beach with municipal lifeguard cover from 15 March to 30 November.
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Platja de Santa Ponça scores 48/100 today for surfing at intermediate level — Okay. Wind 5 kn W · Waves 1.0 m, 6 s · Tide -0.4 to -0.3 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Scores are updated hourly by 4Shor ShorSense™.
Wind at Platja de Santa Ponça today: 5 kn W (gusting 17 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects surfing conditions significantly — offshore winds produce cleaner, glassier surfaces while onshore winds add chop. These are daily averages; the 4Shor app shows hourly detail.
Waves at Platja de Santa Ponça today: 1.0 m, 6 s period from NW, mushy character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
The best window for surfing at Platja de Santa Ponça today is around 00:00 UTC, when conditions score 48/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Platja de Santa Ponça scores 49/100 today for surfing — Okay. A score of 65–79 is Good for a beginner; 80+ is Excellent (90+ is Epic!); below 45 the session is usually not worth it. 4Shor scores every location across Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert levels.
Platja de Santa Ponça is scored for Surfing, Windsurfing, Kite Surfing, Kite Foiling, Wing Foiling, E-Foiling, Paddleboarding, Swimming, Kayaking, Canoeing in the 4Shor forecast system. Conditions are rated Beginner through Expert for each sport, updated every hour, so you always know whether the session is worth the drive.
Platja de Santa Ponça is a coastal location near Santa Ponça in Spain. It is one of more than 2,500 European water-sport locations scored daily by 4Shor.
4Shor's ShorSense™ system combines satellite-derived seafloor mapping, nearshore wave models, wind and tide data to generate a hyper-local forecast. At Platja de Santa Ponça, conditions are scored hourly on a 0–100 scale for each sport and ability level. A score of 80+ means Excellent (90+ Epic!); 65–79 is Good; below 45 the session is usually not worth the drive.
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