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Today at Plage du Ponteil: Excellent for kite surfing — 81/100 for expert level. Wind 16 kn E · Waves 1.4 m, 4 s · Tide -0.5 to -0.3 m. Best window around 12:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage du Ponteil: 1.3m waves with strong onshore wind. Wing Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with Windsurfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 22°C / 72°F.
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Plage du Ponteil faces NE, so the prevailing westerly comes over the land before it reaches you. For kite surfing that usually means a gustier, less predictable flow than the raw wind speed suggests.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 16 kn. Leaning onshore, which is the forgiving side for kite surfing: you can hold a line along the beach and anything that goes wrong still drifts you in.
Over the published window Plage du Ponteil clears 60/100 for kite surfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 10 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 28 scored spots within reach today, Plage du Ponteil 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 gently shelving, fine-sand family beach on a sheltered NE-facing bay, staying shallow well offshore, good for swimming, paddleboarding and young children. The swimming zone bans motorised and non-motorised craft; towable tubes, water-skiing and wakeboarding run from a separate operator outside it. Lifeguards staff the beach 09:00-19:00, mid-June to mid-September. Closed midnight-06:00; dogs banned mid-April to October; naturism not permitted.
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Wind at Plage du Ponteil today: 16 kn E (gusting 40 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 du Ponteil today: 1.4 m, 4 s period from SE, crumbling 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 du Ponteil today is around 19:00 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, Plage du Ponteil scores 29/100 today for surfing — Poor. 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 du Ponteil 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 du Ponteil is a coastal location near Antibes 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 du Ponteil, 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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