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Today at Playa de Luarca: Excellent for surfing — 81/100 for intermediate level. Wind 4 kn SW · Waves 1.8 m, 12 s · Tide -1.1 to 0.3 m. Best window around 21:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Luarca: 1.1m waves with light offshore wind. E-Foiling looks Excellent in the late morning, with Paddleboarding also worth considering. Water temperature is 15°C / 58°F.
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Playa de Luarca faces NE, away from the prevailing Atlantic swell. For surfing that means it needs a specific direction to work rather than picking up the everyday groundswell, so it is a spot to check rather than assume.
Today's wind is offshore at 4 kn. That is the direction you want for surfing — it holds the face up and clean instead of crumbling it.
Over the published window Playa de Luarca clears 60/100 for surfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 11 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Luarca ranks 25th 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 pair of connected, sheltered sandy coves in a fishing town, protected from open Atlantic swell by two harbour breakwaters. Dark sand and calm, flat water make this an urban swimming and leisure beach, not a surf, kite, or windsurf spot; no reef or rock hazards noted. Dogs are prohibited 1 May to 30 September. Lifeguards patrol 1 July to 31 August daily; a nautical club is based here. No tow service is documented.
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Wind at Playa de Luarca today: 4 kn SW (gusting 26 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 Luarca today: 1.8 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 surfing at Playa de Luarca today is around 21:00 UTC, when conditions score 81/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de Luarca scores 59/100 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.
Playa de Luarca 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.
Playa de Luarca is a coastal location near Luarca / Ḷḷuarca 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 Luarca, 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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