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Today at Weston Super Mare Beach: Good for kayaking — 78/100 for expert level. Wind 7 kn E · Tide -2.9 to 1.6 m. Best window around 11:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Weston Super Mare Beach: 0.2m waves with light offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 15°C / 59°F.
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Weston Super Mare Beach 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 offshore at 7 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for kayaking.
Over the published window Weston Super Mare 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, 9 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Weston Super Mare Beach 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 wide, west-facing sandy beach on the Bristol Channel; fine sand gives way at low tide to thick mud across roughly a mile of shore. Not a surf break — the flat, shallow gradient suits windsurfing and kitesurfing (SW optimal) and flat-water paddling near high tide. A WindZone at the south end serves land-based kite sports. Beach rangers patrol April-September; entry is safest near high tide, as the returning tide can trap people in mud.
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Wind at Weston Super Mare Beach today: 7 kn E (gusting 24 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 Weston Super Mare Beach today: 0.3 m, 4 s period from W, flat 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 Weston Super Mare Beach today is around 02:00 UTC, when conditions score 74/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Weston Super Mare Beach scores 89/100 today for kite surfing — Excellent. 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.
Weston Super Mare 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.
Weston Super Mare Beach is a coastal location near Weston-super-Mare 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 Weston Super Mare 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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