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Today at Playa de la Aldea: Good for kayaking — 77/100 for expert level. Wind 3 kn S · Tide -0.6 to 0.2 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de la Aldea: 1.4m waves with light cross-shore wind. Paddleboarding looks Good in the late morning, with Kayaking also worth considering. Water temperature is 24°C / 75°F.
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Playa de la Aldea faces W, 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 la Aldea clears 60/100 for kayaking at Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 23 scored spots within reach today, Playa de la Aldea ranks 18th 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 remote 400 m boulder-and-pebble beach on the west coast, backed by cliffs, facing the open Atlantic west-northwest, with a shelving bottom of boulders, pebbles and black volcanic sand. Exposed to constant swell and a rocky bottom, unsuitable for beginners or flat-water sports. A natural reserve borders the southern portion. Rising tide can cut off access; aqua socks recommended. Dogs, nudism banned.
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Wind at Playa de la Aldea today: 3 kn S (gusting 18 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.
The best window for kayaking at Playa de la Aldea today is around 17:00 UTC, when conditions score 42/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de la Aldea 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 la Aldea 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 la Aldea is a coastal location near Playa de San Nicolás 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 la Aldea, 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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