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Today at Playa de Esquinzo: Excellent for surfing — 88/100 for intermediate level. Wind 7 kn E · Waves 1.7 m, 9 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.2 m. Best window around 07:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Esquinzo: 1.7m waves with light offshore wind. Surfing looks Excellent in the morning, with Swimming also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Playa de Esquinzo faces NW, 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 cross-offshore at 7 kn. Leaning offshore, so the face should still stand up clean for surfing — not the glassy hold of a straight offshore, but the right side of neutral.
Over the published window Playa de Esquinzo clears 60/100 for surfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 7 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 21 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Esquinzo ranks 4th 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 remote, horseshoe-shaped cove roughly 300m long flanked by high volcanic cliffs on an exposed northwest Atlantic coast, reached only by an unpaved track. A sand-and-stone beach break produces powerful lefts and rights from SW-to-NE swell, working around 0.6-2.4m, best at mid-to-high tide with light offshore wind. Strong currents and rip hazards are reported, there is no lifeguard, and emergency response would take time over the remote tracks.
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Wind at Playa de Esquinzo today: 7 kn E (gusting 18 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 Playa de Esquinzo today: 1.7 m, 9 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 surfing at Playa de Esquinzo today is around 07:00 UTC, when conditions score 88/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de Esquinzo 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.
Playa de Esquinzo is scored for Surfing, Swimming 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 Esquinzo is a coastal location near Tope 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 Esquinzo, 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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