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Today at Summerleaze Beach: Epic! for surfing — 94/100 for beginner level. Wind 15 kn E · Waves 0.9 m, 15 s · Tide -1.6 to 0.7 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Summerleaze Beach: 0.7m waves with strong offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Summerleaze Beach 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 offshore at 15 kn. That is the direction you want for surfing — it holds the face up and clean instead of crumbling it.
Over the published window Summerleaze Beach 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, 5 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Summerleaze Beach ranks 20th 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 wide sandy bay partly sheltered by a stone breakwater, with a tidal sea pool alongside where rocks can be submerged at high tide. The sandy beach break gives fast lefts at low tide and rights peeling toward the harbour from mid to high tide, best for beginners near high tide; low tide brings submerged rock fingers and rip currents. RNLI lifeguards patrol an extended season, 10am-6pm. Dogs must be leashed 10am-6pm in summer.
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Wind at Summerleaze Beach today: 15 kn E (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 Summerleaze Beach today: 0.9 m, 15 s period from N, 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 Summerleaze Beach today is around 23:00 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, Summerleaze Beach scores 94/100 today for surfing — Epic!. 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.
Summerleaze Beach 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.
Summerleaze Beach is a coastal location near Bude 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 Summerleaze Beach, 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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