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Today at Plage des Grenadiers: Excellent for surfing — 87/100 for beginner level. Wind 8 kn W · Waves 1.0 m, 14 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.4 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage des Grenadiers: 0.8m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 17°C / 63°F.
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Plage des Grenadiers faces W, straight into the prevailing Atlantic swell window — the reason it has waves at all, and the reason it is rarely flat.
Today's wind is onshore at 8 kn. Onshore is the awkward one for surfing: it adds chop and pushes the wave over before it can stand up.
Over the published window Plage des Grenadiers 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, 2 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Plage des Grenadiers is the best of them for surfing — so if you are travelling for it, this is the one.
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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 small, informal Atlantic beach between Fouras and Chatelaillon-Plage, backed by marshland near a nature reserve, facing sheltered waters toward Ile d'Aix. A macro-tidal range (up to around 5 m at springs) exposes extensive mudflats and sharp shell debris at low water, so high tide is the easier window. It is not a formally supervised bathing site, has no lifeguard cover, and no watersports facilities or tow services are noted.
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Wind at Plage des Grenadiers today: 8 kn W (gusting 25 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 Plage des Grenadiers today: 1.0 m, 14 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 surfing at Plage des Grenadiers today is around 23:00 UTC, when conditions score 82/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Plage des Grenadiers scores 87/100 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.
Plage des Grenadiers 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.
Plage des Grenadiers is a coastal location near Les Renfermis in France. 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 Plage des Grenadiers, 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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