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Today at Sur la Plage: Good for swimming — 79/100 for expert level. Wind 5 kn SE · Tide -1.7 to 0.8 m. Best window around 17:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Sur la Plage: 0.5m waves with light cross-shore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Sur la Plage faces N. 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 5 kn. Light enough that the surface should stay workable for swimming.
Over the published window Sur la Plage 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, 8 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Sur la Plage ranks 2nd 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 wide, flat sandy beach on Normandy's Cote Fleurie, sheltered by offshore sandbanks that dampen swell, making this a gentle, flatwater setting rather than a surf spot. A dedicated year-round kite and nautical zone sits at the eastern end, suited to kitesurfing (beginners), windsurfing, SUP and sand yachting. Pure sand, no rocks. Large tidal range (about 7.8m) exposes broad flats at low tide. Municipal lifeguards patrol May-September across four posts.
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Wind at Sur la Plage today: 5 kn SE (gusting 13 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 Sur la Plage today: 1.1 m, 5 s period from W, 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 Sur la Plage today is around 17:00 UTC, when conditions score 75/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Sur la Plage scores 85/100 today for kite foiling — 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.
Sur la Plage 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.
Sur la Plage is a coastal location near Cabourg 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 Sur la Plage, 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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