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Today at Playa Blanca: Good for swimming — 77/100 for advanced level. Wind 5 kn SE · Tide -0.7 to 0.3 m. Best window around 02:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa Blanca: 0.3m waves with light onshore wind. E-Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with Paddleboarding also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Playa Blanca faces S. For swimming how much swell and wind that aspect keeps out matters more than the open-water forecast.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 5 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for swimming.
Over the published window Playa Blanca clears 60/100 for swimming 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, 11 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 26 scored spots within reach today, Playa Blanca is level with one other at the top for swimming — nothing nearby is scoring better, so pick on distance.
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 long (~1.2km), sandy, calm, shallow urban bay backed by a resort promenade; described as sheltered swimming water rather than a surf or reef break, with no rock or river-mouth hazards reported. Holds Blue Flag status for the 2026 season, with dedicated rescue and lifeguard teams credited for meeting that standard, though exact hours are unconfirmed. Motorised watersports like jet-skis and water-skiing are based at an adjacent beach, not here.
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Wind at Playa Blanca today: 5 kn SE (gusting 19 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.
The best window for swimming at Playa Blanca today is around 02:00 UTC, when conditions score 76/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa Blanca scores 71/100 today for paddleboarding — Good. 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 Blanca is scored for 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 Blanca is a coastal location near Puerto del Carmen 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 Blanca, 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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