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Today at Playa El Complejo: Excellent for surfing — 85/100 for advanced level. Wind 7 kn NE · Waves 1.8 m, 10 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.3 m. Best window around 09:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa El Complejo: 1.8m waves with light cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Excellent in the late morning. Water temperature is 23°C / 73°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 wild, remote reef-and-sand beach facing NNW within a protected natural park area, with rocky shallows and caves along the shoreline. A left-hand reef break receives NNW ground- and windswells, working best in winter and often flat in summer; rocks and rip currents are documented hazards, and entry is safer around high tide. Strong, onshore or cross-shore winds leave it blown out much of the time. It is unsupervised and unflagged, with no lifeguard cover.
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Playa El Complejo scores 81/100 today for surfing at intermediate level — Excellent. Wind 7 kn NE · Waves 1.8 m, 10 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.3 m. Best window around 08:00 UTC. Scores are updated hourly by 4Shor ShorSense™.
Wind at Playa El Complejo today: 7 kn NE (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 Playa El Complejo today: 1.8 m, 10 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 El Complejo today is around 08:00 UTC, when conditions score 81/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa El Complejo scores 29/100 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 El Complejo is scored for Surfing 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 El Complejo is a coastal location near Caleta de Caballo 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 El Complejo, 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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