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Today at Praia de Cacela Velha: Good for canoeing — 79/100 for expert level. Wind 6 kn NW · Tide -0.9 to 0.2 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praia de Cacela Velha: 0.3m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the afternoon, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 20°C / 69°F.
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Praia de Cacela Velha faces N. For canoeing how much swell and wind that aspect keeps out matters more than the open-water forecast.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 6 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for canoeing.
Over the published window Praia de Cacela Velha 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, 11 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Praia de Cacela Velha is level with one other at the top for canoeing — nothing nearby is scoring better, so pick on distance.
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 remote, facility-free barrier-island beach in a protected lagoon, reached only by boat or a low-tide wade, with no road access. Sand shifts daily into sandbars; the ocean side has gentle waves suited to swimming, while the shallow lagoon behind is used by locals for kitesurfing, windsurfing, and paddleboarding. The municipality discourages swimming here: no lifeguards, unstable dunes, and strong inlet currents causing dozens of rescues some summers.
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Wind at Praia de Cacela Velha today: 6 kn NW (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 Praia de Cacela Velha today: 0.5 m, 4 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 Praia de Cacela Velha today is around 00:00 UTC, when conditions score 75/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Praia de Cacela Velha scores 85/100 today for kite foiling — Excellent. 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.
Praia de Cacela Velha 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.
Praia de Cacela Velha is a coastal location near Fábrica in Portugal. 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 Praia de Cacela Velha, 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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