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Today at Avon Beach: Good for kayaking — 79/100 for expert level. Wind 6 kn E · Tide -0.8 to -0.2 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Avon Beach: 0.5m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 17°C / 62°F.
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Avon Beach faces SE, tucked away from the prevailing westerly swell — the aspect that gives kayaking the flat, sheltered water it needs more often than an exposed coast would.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 6 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for kayaking.
Over the published window Avon Beach clears 60/100 for kayaking 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, 10 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Avon Beach ranks 4th for kayaking. 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, sandy beach at a harbour mouth with a designated watersports zone, calm enough for swimming and paddling alongside beginner-to-intermediate windsurfing and kitesurfing. The seabed shelves gently with sand bars giving flat water at low tide and small beach-break waves from mid-to-high tide on SW swell. Submerged sandbars are a fin-snapping hazard at low tide. RNLI lifeguards patrol from mid-July; dogs are banned 1 May to 30 September.
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Wind at Avon Beach today: 6 kn E (gusting 17 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects kayaking 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 Avon Beach today: 1.0 m, 7 s period from SE, closing 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 kayaking at Avon Beach today is around 04:00 UTC, when conditions score 77/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Avon Beach scores 90/100 today for surfing — Epic!. 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.
Avon Beach 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.
Avon Beach is a coastal location near Friars Cliff in United Kingdom. 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 Avon Beach, 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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