Porthmeor Beach Swimming Forecast
St Ives · United Kingdom
Porthmeor Beach scores 74/100 for swimming today at its best ability level (expert). The beach faces NW. A wide, NNW-facing Atlantic beach in St Ives with a sandy bottom, occasional rock outcrops and granite headlands, receiving consistent WNW groundswell; the town's premier surf beach, best autumn through winter, with a spot known as 'the Boiler' producing heavy, barrelling waves. Not suited to flat-water disciplines when surf runs. RNLI lifeguards patrol daily, April-October, 10am-6pm. Dogs banned 15 May-30 Sept. Macro-tidal range; low-to-mid tide is best.
Today's swimming score by ability
Today's conditions at Porthmeor Beach
- Wave
- 1.8 m
- Wind
- 13 kn
- Water temp
- 19°C
- Facing
- NW
Scores are today's peak across the day, from 4Shor ShorSense™ — modelled per spot on our high-resolution European seabed map. The full 8-day swimming forecast is in the app.
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