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Today at Playa de la Fontanilla: Excellent for kite surfing — 80/100 for intermediate level. Wind 8 kn W · Waves 0.9 m, 15 s · Tide -0.9 to 0.1 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de la Fontanilla: 0.8m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 21°C / 71°F.
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Playa de la Fontanilla 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 cross-onshore at 8 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 Playa de la Fontanilla clears 60/100 for kite surfing at Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 9 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Playa de la Fontanilla ranks 17th 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.
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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, wide, south-west-facing sandy beach fronting a town centre, with shallow, calm water and full services including a promenade and sun-lounger hire. A beach break with moderate waves, suiting swimming, paddle-surf and beginner surf, best in autumn/winter swells — summer tends to be flat. Kitesurfing is banned here 15 June-15 September, and dogs are barred in summer. Lifeguard towers and a Cruz Roja post operate through the season.
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Wind at Playa de la Fontanilla today: 8 kn W (gusting 18 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 Playa de la Fontanilla today: 0.9 m, 15 s period from N, 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 Playa de la Fontanilla today is around 13:00 UTC, when conditions score 80/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de la Fontanilla scores 82/100 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.
Playa de la Fontanilla 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 la Fontanilla is a coastal location near Conil de la Frontera 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 la Fontanilla, 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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