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Today at Praia de Parede: Excellent for e-foiling — 81/100 for expert level. Wind 5 kn NW · Tide -0.9 to 0.2 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praia de Parede: 1.3m waves with light cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Epic! in the evening, with Kite Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 17°C / 63°F.
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Today plus the next two days are free for everyone — scored in 3-hour windows, just like the app. The full 8-day forecast lives in the 4Shor app.
Praia de Parede faces S. For e-foiling how much swell and wind that aspect keeps out matters more than the open-water forecast.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 5 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for e-foiling.
Over the published window Praia de Parede clears 60/100 for e-foiling at Expert level — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Praia de Parede ranks 14th for e-foiling. 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 sheltered beach behind a tall seawall in a natural park, with a mixed sand-and-rock bottom and rocky intertidal platform. A right-hand point/reef break works best at low tide on SW and W swells, walls running up to about 200 m; paddleboarders and longboarders use it too, mainly October-March. Tidal range near 1.0-3.3 m exposes rocks at low tide and narrows the beach at high tide. Rips and rocks are hazards. Lifeguards patrol June-September.
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Wind at Praia de Parede today: 5 kn NW (gusting 20 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects e-foiling 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 Parede today: 1.3 m, 14 s period from NW, hollow character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
For beginners, Praia de Parede scores 53/100 today for surfing — Okay. 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 Parede 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 Parede is a coastal location near Parede 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 Parede, 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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