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Today at Playa de Calahonda: Epic! for kite foiling — 96/100 for expert level. Wind 8 kn W · Waves 0.6 m, 4 s · Tide -0.5 to -0.3 m. Best window around 17:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Calahonda: 0.6m waves with moderate cross-shore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the afternoon, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 22°C / 71°F.
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Playa de Calahonda faces SE, so the prevailing westerly comes over the land before it reaches you. For kite foiling that usually means a gustier, less predictable flow than the raw wind speed suggests.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 8 kn. Straight cross-shore is the classic kite foiling direction: it lets you hold a line along the beach rather than fighting to get back to it.
Over the published window Playa de Calahonda clears 60/100 for kite foiling 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 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Calahonda is level with one other at the top for kite foiling — nothing nearby is scoring better, so pick on distance.
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 roughly 1.2 km arc of fine golden sand backed by the protected Dunas de Artola dune system, facing SSE with calm, shallow water suited to swimming, windsurfing and kitesurfing rather than wave-riding; some rocky patches occur in the wider area. Construction, vehicles and dogs are prohibited. The western end is a naturist zone, the eastern end textile with a Blue Flag award. Lifeguards are on duty throughout the beach season.
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Wind at Playa de Calahonda today: 8 kn W (gusting 27 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects kite foiling 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 Playa de Calahonda today: 0.6 m, 4 s period from NE, mushy 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 kite foiling at Playa de Calahonda today is around 09:00 UTC, when conditions score 92/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de Calahonda scores 70/100 today for paddleboarding — Good. 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 Calahonda 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.
Playa de Calahonda is a coastal location near Artola 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 Calahonda, 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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