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Today at Plage des Roches Brunes: Good for swimming — 75/100 for expert level. Wind 13 kn E · Tide -0.5 to -0.4 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage des Roches Brunes: 1.6m waves with strong offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the morning, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 22°C / 72°F.
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Plage des Roches Brunes faces SW, open to the prevailing swell and wind. For swimming that is the hard direction: expect the surface to be workable only when the forecast genuinely drops, not on an average day.
Today's wind is cross-offshore at 13 kn. Blowing off the land keeps the surface flatter near the beach for swimming, but it also pushes you out — stay inside where you can comfortably get back.
Over the published window Plage des Roches Brunes clears 60/100 for swimming at Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 0 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Plage des Roches Brunes ranks 6th for swimming. 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 small, sheltered 200 m beach of mixed sand and pebble, shallow for a long way out and popular with families and disability-access swimmers. Rocks lie near the shoreline. The SW-facing shore sees some wind exposure and is used for windsurfing, though kitesurf launching is banned by municipal and prefectural order. Lifeguard cover runs in summer, roughly mid-June to end September, 09:00-19:00. Dogs are permitted and it is a naturist beach.
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Wind at Plage des Roches Brunes today: 13 kn E (gusting 34 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects swimming 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 Roches Brunes today: 1.7 m, 5 s period from S, mushy 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 swimming at Plage des Roches Brunes today is around 00:00 UTC, when conditions score 55/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Plage des Roches Brunes scores 48/100 today for kite 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.
Plage des Roches Brunes 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 Roches Brunes is a coastal location near La Coudoulière 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 Roches Brunes, 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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