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Today at Plage du Phare: Good for canoeing — 76/100 for expert level. Wind 8 kn SE · Tide -1.5 to 0.7 m. Best window around 07:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage du Phare: 1.6m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with Paddleboarding also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Plage du Phare faces SE, tucked away from the prevailing westerly swell — the aspect that gives canoeing the flat, sheltered water it needs more often than an exposed coast would.
Today's wind is onshore at 8 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for canoeing.
Over the published window Plage du Phare clears 60/100 for canoeing at Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Plage du Phare ranks 30th for canoeing. The order changes by discipline: the same conditions that put a spot top for one sport can drop it down the list for another.
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, 1.2 km fine-sand beach on the south-east shore of the Bay of Douarnenez, with shallow sandy entry and views toward the Crozon peninsula. It combines a supervised swimming area with a well-known kitesurf and windsurf spot exposed to NW winds. Kite and windsurf launching is banned from the car park and fenced dune zones, and dogs and horses are prohibited.
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Wind at Plage du Phare today: 8 kn SE (gusting 28 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects canoeing 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 Plage du Phare today: 1.6 m, 10 s period from W, hollow character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
For beginners, Plage du Phare scores 21/100 today for surfing — Don't Bother. 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.
Plage du Phare 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.
Plage du Phare is a coastal location near Kersenval Izella in France. 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 Plage du Phare, 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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