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Today at Playa de la Turbia: Good for kite surfing — 69/100 for advanced level. Wind 7 kn E · Waves 2.1 m, 12 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.2 m. Best window around 22:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de la Turbia: 2.1m waves with light offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Playa de la Turbia 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-shore at 7 kn. Straight cross-shore is the classic kite surfing direction: it lets you hold a line along the beach rather than fighting to get back to it.
Over the published window Playa de la Turbia clears 60/100 for kite surfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 22 scored spots within reach today, Playa de la Turbia ranks 22nd 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 remote reef break on a wild, isolated southern headland inside a protected natural park, with no lifeguard or safety infrastructure. Waves break over a shallow, sharp lava-rock bottom into left- and right-handers, the right regarded as the quality wave, hollow with long sections at size; a long paddle-out over shallow reef adds hazard. Strong, unpredictable currents are present. Tide guidance varies: surfable at all stages, or best near high tide.
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Wind at Playa de la Turbia today: 7 kn E (gusting 15 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 Turbia today: 2.1 m, 12 s period from W, peeling 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 Turbia today is around 22:00 UTC, when conditions score 53/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de la Turbia scores 24/100 today for surfing — Don't Bother. 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 Turbia 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 Turbia is a coastal location near El Puertito 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 Turbia, 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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