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Today at Playa de las Alcaravaneras: Excellent for surfing — 88/100 for advanced level. Wind 4 kn SE · Waves 1.8 m, 9 s · Tide -0.6 to 0.3 m. Best window around 06:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de las Alcaravaneras: 1.8m waves with light cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Excellent in the morning, with Kite 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 sheltered urban bay beach with fine golden sand, protected by an adjacent sports-port breakwater and a natural offshore breakwater about 200m out, giving calm, largely wave-free water. Suits swimming, sailing, kayaking, canoeing, windsurfing and kitesurfing. Boats must use marked channels within the 200m bathing zone; sailing/canoeing must stay outside it. Civil Protection gives seasonal lifeguard cover, July-September. Never held Blue Flag status.
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Playa de las Alcaravaneras scores 78/100 today for surfing at intermediate level — Good. Wind 4 kn SE · Waves 1.8 m, 9 s · Tide -0.6 to 0.3 m. Best window around 02:00 UTC. Scores are updated hourly by 4Shor ShorSense™.
Wind at Playa de las Alcaravaneras today: 4 kn SE (gusting 19 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 Playa de las Alcaravaneras today: 1.8 m, 9 s period from W, peeling 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 Playa de las Alcaravaneras today is around 02:00 UTC, when conditions score 78/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de las Alcaravaneras scores 27/100 today for surfing — Poor. 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.
Playa de las Alcaravaneras 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.
Playa de las Alcaravaneras is a coastal location near Las Palmas de Gran Canaria 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 Playa de las Alcaravaneras, 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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