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Today at Playa de Gran Tarajal: Good for swimming — 77/100 for expert level. Wind 10 kn E · Tide -0.7 to 0.2 m. Best window around 03:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Gran Tarajal: 0.6m waves with moderate cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Excellent in the late morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Today plus the next two days are free for everyone — scored in 3-hour windows, just like the app. The full 8-day forecast lives in the 4Shor app.
Playa de Gran Tarajal 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-shore at 10 kn. At that strength expect a textured surface for swimming, and the shelter of the bay to matter more than the forecast number.
Over the published window Playa de Gran Tarajal clears 60/100 for swimming at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 11 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Gran Tarajal ranks 15th 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 regenerated, Blue-Flag urban black-sand beach sheltered between a headland and a harbour breakwater. Waters are mostly calm and flat with a shallow, smooth seabed, though breezy enough for casual paddleboarding and kayaking alongside swimming. Dogs and nudism are banned. A summer lifeguard service runs daily 11:00-19:00, with two watchtowers and Cruz Roja support; off-season cover unconfirmed. The harbour side is port water, not open swimming area.
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Wind at Playa de Gran Tarajal today: 10 kn E (gusting 22 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 Playa de Gran Tarajal today: 0.7 m, 7 s period from S, reforming 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 Playa de Gran Tarajal today is around 01:00 UTC, when conditions score 72/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de Gran Tarajal scores 81/100 today for surfing — Excellent. 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 Gran Tarajal is scored for Surfing, 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 Gran Tarajal is a coastal location near Gran Tarajal 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 Gran Tarajal, 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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