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Today at Plage Chemin: Good for kayaking — 76/100 for expert level. Wind 11 kn SE · Tide -0.5 to -0.3 m. Best window around 16:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage Chemin: 2.0m waves with moderate offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the late morning, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 22°C / 72°F.
Forecast updated · ShorSense™
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.
Plage Chemin faces NW, open to the prevailing swell and wind. For kayaking 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 offshore at 11 kn. Blowing off the land keeps the surface flatter near the beach for kayaking, but it also pushes you out — stay inside where you can comfortably get back.
Over the published window Plage Chemin clears 60/100 for kayaking at Advanced, Expert levels — 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, Plage Chemin ranks 19th 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 small, wild cove reached only on foot via a coastal path below a hilltop citadel. Calm, crystalline water sits in a sheltered, NW-facing bay suited to quiet swimming and snorkelling rather than board or tow sports. The shoreline is mixed sand and pebbles, turning rocky underwater with some concrete present; aquatic shoes are recommended. No lifeguard post covers this cove, and no tow or safety-boat service operates here.
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Wind at Plage Chemin today: 11 kn SE (gusting 40 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 Plage Chemin today: 2.1 m, 6 s period from S, mushy character. 4Shor derives nearshore wave conditions from ECMWF IFS 9-km atmospheric data and the IBI regional ocean model, updated hourly.
For beginners, Plage Chemin scores 20/100 today for windsurfing — 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 Chemin 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 Chemin is a coastal location near Saint-Tropez 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 Chemin, 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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