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Today at Praia da Arrifana: Excellent for kite surfing — 84/100 for advanced level. Wind 10 kn SE · Waves 2.2 m, 12 s · Tide -1.4 to 0.5 m. Best window around 17:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praia da Arrifana: 2.1m waves with moderate cross-shore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the afternoon, with Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 17°C / 63°F.
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Praia da Arrifana faces W, 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 10 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 Praia da Arrifana clears 60/100 for kite surfing at Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Praia da Arrifana ranks 20th 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 1.3–2.5 km — UK Met Office UKV, Météo-France AROME HD and AROME, 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 cliff-backed bay in a protected natural park, with a roughly 500 m sandy beach break offering peaks along its length, forgiving when small, plus a rocky point break at the northern edge with a boulder-strewn line-up carrying rock-cut hazard, worst at lower tides. Submerged rocks also sit mid-beach, notable at high tide. Lifeguards are present in summer, typically June to September; beach-level parking is limited to drop-off and residents.
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Wind at Praia da Arrifana today: 10 kn SE (gusting 19 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 Praia da Arrifana today: 2.2 m, 12 s period from NW, 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 Praia da Arrifana today is around 16:00 UTC, when conditions score 59/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Praia da Arrifana scores 33/100 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.
Praia da Arrifana 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.
Praia da Arrifana is a coastal location near Arrifana in Portugal. 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 Praia da Arrifana, 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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