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Today at Kennack Sands: Epic! for surfing — 96/100 for intermediate level. Wind 7 kn E · Waves 1.6 m, 9 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.6 m. Best window around 09:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Kennack Sands: 1.4m waves with light cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Epic! in the late morning, with Kite Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Kennack Sands faces S. Which swells reach it — and therefore whether there is anything worth riding — depends on that aspect more than on the open-ocean forecast height.
Today's wind is cross-shore at 7 kn. Straight cross-shore sits between the two for surfing — the face stays rideable but the wall is less organised than on a clean offshore.
Over the published window Kennack Sands clears 60/100 for surfing at every ability from Beginner to Expert — an unusually broad spot, which normally means a range of conditions rather than one narrow sweet spot. Today, 8 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Kennack Sands ranks 5th for 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 sheltered, SSE-facing twin-bay sandy beach on the Lizard Peninsula, split by a rocky outcrop with rock pools. The sandy break gives left and right waves for beginner surfing and bodyboarding, with submerged rocks near the outcrop and a wide tidal sweep. The east section is a nature reserve; dogs are banned on the west beach in summer. RNLI lifeguards patrol weekends from May, then daily July-September; rising tide can leave quicksand-like sand flats.
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Wind at Kennack Sands today: 7 kn E (gusting 17 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects 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 Kennack Sands today: 1.6 m, 9 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 surfing at Kennack Sands today is around 09:00 UTC, when conditions score 96/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Kennack Sands scores 54/100 today for surfing — Okay. 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.
Kennack Sands 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.
Kennack Sands is a coastal location near Kuggar in United Kingdom. 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 Kennack Sands, 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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