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Today at Gwithian Beach: Excellent for kite surfing — 84/100 for beginner level. Wind 9 kn S · Waves 0.5 m, 12 s · Tide -1.4 to 0.8 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Gwithian Beach: 0.5m waves with light offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the afternoon, with Kite Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 15°C / 60°F.
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Gwithian Beach faces NW, open to the prevailing westerlies, so the wind arrives off the water rather than filtered through the land — the clean, steady flow kite surfing wants, and the reason gusts here are sea breezes rather than land turbulence.
Today's wind is cross-offshore at 9 kn. Leaning offshore, so a failure drifts you away from the beach rather than back to it — rideable for kite surfing, but not the direction to push your luck in.
Over the published window Gwithian Beach clears 60/100 for kite surfing 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, 4 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Gwithian Beach is level with one other at the top for kite surfing — 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 long, exposed Atlantic sandy beach break toward a headland, producing lefts and rights on west-northwest swells, best mid-to-low tide with offshore wind. Wide low-tide sand flats draw kitesurfers, windsurfers and kite buggies alongside surfers; often crowded. Hazards include rip currents, shifting sandbars, shorebreak at higher tide, and rocks near the headland. RNLI lifeguards patrol 5 May–30 Sept, 10am–5pm. Dogs banned 10am–6pm, 1 July–31 Aug.
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Wind at Gwithian Beach today: 9 kn S (gusting 41 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects kite surfing 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 Gwithian Beach today: 0.5 m, 12 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 surfing at Gwithian Beach today is around 21:00 UTC, when conditions score 87/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Gwithian Beach scores 84/100 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.
Gwithian 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.
Gwithian Beach is a coastal location near Gwithian 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 Gwithian 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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