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Today at Plage de l'Épine: Good for kite surfing — 79/100 for intermediate level. Wind 14 kn SW · Waves 0.9 m, 14 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.4 m. Best window around 10:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage de l'Épine: 0.8m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the morning, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Plage de l'Épine 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 surfing wants, and the reason gusts here are sea breezes rather than land turbulence.
Today's wind is onshore at 14 kn. Onshore is the safest direction for kite surfing here — anything that goes wrong drifts you back to the beach — at the cost of a choppier surface.
Over the published window Plage de l'Épine 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, 10 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Plage de l'Épine ranks 13th for kite surfing. 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, flat, south-west-facing sandy Atlantic beach forming part of a 3km-plus stretch, unsupervised and popular for shellfish gathering at low tide. Rocks and sand pits are exposed as the significant tidal range recedes, requiring care underfoot. No surf break is present; the setting suits wind-based sports such as windsurfing and kitesurfing. Horses are banned June-September. No lifeguard post or tow service is documented here.
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Wind at Plage de l'Épine today: 14 kn SW (gusting 36 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 Plage de l'Épine today: 0.9 m, 14 s period from NW, 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 surfing at Plage de l'Épine today is around 10:00 UTC, when conditions score 79/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Plage de l'Épine scores 77/100 today for surfing — 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.
Plage de l'Épine 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.
Plage de l'Épine is a coastal location near L'Épine in France. 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 Plage de l'Épine, 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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