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Today at Playa Rocío del Mar: Good for swimming — 77/100 for expert level. Wind 4 kn W · Tide -0.4 to -0.3 m. Best window around 00:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa Rocío del Mar: 0.5m waves with light offshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the afternoon, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 24°C / 76°F.
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Playa Rocío del Mar faces E, tucked away from the prevailing westerly swell — the aspect that gives swimming the flat, sheltered water it needs more often than an exposed coast would.
Today's wind is offshore at 4 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for swimming.
Over the published window Playa Rocío del Mar 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, 6 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Playa Rocío del Mar 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 small (234 m), east-facing Blue Flag sandy beach with scattered rocks at the shoreline. It is an exposed beach break with lefts and rights, but surf is inconsistent and typically flat in summer, best on an ESE swell with westerly offshore wind. Calm water is typical most of the year, better suited to paddleboarding and kayaking than surfing. Municipal lifeguard cover runs 1 June-15 September, 10:00-19:00 (20:00 in peak season).
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Wind at Playa Rocío del Mar today: 4 kn W (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.
Waves at Playa Rocío del Mar today: 0.5 m, 6 s period from SE, 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 swimming at Playa Rocío del Mar today is around 14:00 UTC, when conditions score 74/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa Rocío del Mar scores 77/100 today for kite foiling — 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 Rocío del Mar 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 Rocío del Mar is a coastal location near Urbanización Punta Prima 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 Rocío del Mar, 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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