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Today at Praia de Bueu: Good for kite surfing — 72/100 for beginner level. Wind 6 kn NE · Waves 0.7 m, 15 s · Tide -0.8 to 0.1 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praia de Bueu: 0.5m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the midday, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 15°C / 60°F.
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Praia de Bueu faces N, and that aspect decides whether the day's wind arrives clean off the water or broken up by the land — which matters more for kite surfing than the forecast speed alone.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 6 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 Praia de Bueu clears 60/100 for kite surfing at Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 1 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Praia de Bueu ranks 6th 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 compact, roughly 200m urban town beach on the sheltered inner shore of the ria, with calm, golden-sand conditions and straightforward water entry, suited to quiet swimming and bathing over watersports or surf. Offshore mooring is permitted and parking is available nearby. Nudism is not permitted. Unlike the municipality's Blue Flag beaches, this has no lifeguard cover. Tides have a moderate range of about 1.8-2.3m, narrowing the beach to 3m at high tide.
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Wind at Praia de Bueu today: 6 kn NE (gusting 32 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 de Bueu today: 0.7 m, 15 s period from NW, 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 Praia de Bueu today is around 18:00 UTC, when conditions score 70/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Praia de Bueu scores 77/100 today for kite foiling — 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.
Praia de Bueu 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 de Bueu is a coastal location near Bueu 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 Praia de Bueu, 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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