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Today at Playa de Garachico: Good for kayaking — 76/100 for expert level. Wind 3 kn SW · Tide -0.5 to 0.3 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Garachico: 1.6m waves with light cross-shore wind. Paddleboarding looks Good in the morning, with Kayaking also worth considering. Water temperature is 25°C / 76°F.
Forecast updated · ShorSense™
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Playa de Garachico 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 cross-shore at 3 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for kayaking.
Over the published window Playa de Garachico 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 28 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Garachico ranks 26th 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 pocket beach of dark volcanic sand, pebbles and exposed lava rock on a rugged, swell-exposed coast, beside lava-rock tidal pools. Surfing is not recommended here due to the rocky, shapeless bottom, though snorkelling and paddleboarding are feasible; a riptide hazard is noted. Lifeguard cover is seasonal (summer only) and reported inconsistently between sources. Mid-tide is the recommended bathing window; low tide exposes a shallow rock shelf.
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Wind at Playa de Garachico today: 3 kn SW (gusting 14 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.
For beginners, Playa de Garachico scores 15/100 today for e-foiling — 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.
Playa de Garachico is scored for 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 de Garachico is a coastal location near Garachico 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 de Garachico, 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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