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Today at Praa Sands Beach: Excellent for kite foiling — 86/100 for expert level. Wind 7 kn E · Waves 1.0 m, 14 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.5 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praa Sands Beach: 0.7m waves with light offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Praa Sands Beach faces SW, open to the prevailing westerlies, so the wind arrives off the water rather than filtered through the land — the clean, steady flow kite foiling wants, and the reason gusts here are sea breezes rather than land turbulence.
Today's wind is cross-offshore at 7 kn. Leaning offshore, so a failure drifts you away from the beach rather than back to it — rideable for kite foiling, but not the direction to push your luck in.
Over the published window Praa Sands Beach clears 60/100 for kite foiling at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 6 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Praa Sands Beach ranks 6th for kite foiling. The order changes by discipline: the same conditions that put a spot top for one sport can drop it down the list for another.
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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 mile-long, fine-sand beach break in Cornwall, the county's most popular south-coast surf spot, picking up south-southwest swells rare on north-coast beaches. Lefts and rights; mid-to-low tide gives cleaner peaks, high tide brings a heavy shore dump; offshore wind is northeast. Suited to surfing and windsurfing. Dangerous rip currents occur at all tide states. Dogs banned 10am–6pm, 1 July–31 Aug. RNLI lifeguards patrol daily 5 May–30 Sept, 10am–6pm.
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Wind at Praa Sands Beach today: 7 kn E (gusting 20 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 Praa Sands Beach today: 1.0 m, 14 s period from NE, closing 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 Praa Sands Beach today is around 15:00 UTC, when conditions score 81/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Praa Sands Beach scores 87/100 today for 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.
Praa Sands 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.
Praa Sands Beach is a coastal location near Praa Sands 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 Praa Sands 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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