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Today at Playa del Retamar: Good for canoeing — 79/100 for expert level. Wind 5 kn W · Tide -0.4 to -0.3 m. Best window around 03:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa del Retamar: 0.4m waves with light cross-shore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 22°C / 72°F.
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Playa del Retamar faces SW, open to the prevailing swell and wind. For canoeing that is the hard direction: expect the surface to be workable only when the forecast genuinely drops, not on an average day.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 5 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for canoeing.
Over the published window Playa del Retamar clears 60/100 for canoeing at every ability from Beginner to Expert — an unusually broad spot, which normally means a range of conditions rather than one narrow sweet spot. Today, 4 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Playa del Retamar ranks 3rd 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.
An urban residential beach with a coarse sand-and-gravel shore just outside a natural park, exposed to reliable westerly wind that draws kitesurfers and windsurfers autumn through spring. Shore break can be significant in strong wind, and pebbles underfoot make footwear advisable. A separated nautical zone keeps watersports apart from bathers; kitesurfing is reportedly forbidden by authorities in high season. Lifeguards and Blue Flag status apply.
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Wind at Playa del Retamar today: 5 kn W (gusting 19 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 Playa del Retamar today: 0.6 m, 5 s period from NE, surging 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 canoeing at Playa del Retamar today is around 09:00 UTC, when conditions score 76/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa del Retamar scores 72/100 today for paddleboarding — Good. 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 del Retamar 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 del Retamar is a coastal location near El Toyo 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 del Retamar, 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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