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Today at Clonea Beach: Excellent for windsurfing — 81/100 for intermediate level. Wind 8 kn SE · Waves 0.5 m, 10 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.5 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Clonea Beach: 0.4m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 13°C / 56°F.
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Clonea Beach faces SE, so the prevailing westerly comes over the land before it reaches you. For windsurfing that usually means a gustier, less predictable flow than the raw wind speed suggests.
Today's wind is onshore at 8 kn. Onshore is the safest direction for windsurfing here — anything that goes wrong drifts you back to the beach — at the cost of a choppier surface.
Over the published window Clonea Beach clears 60/100 for windsurfing 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, 9 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Clonea Beach ranks 3rd for windsurfing. The order changes by discipline: the same conditions that put a spot top for one sport can drop it down the list for another.
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A gently shelving, 1 km Blue Flag sandy beach with a consistent slope to the low-water mark, and rock pools at the west end at low tide. An Atlantic beach break used for surfing, bodyboarding, and kayaking, with a seasonal surf school on site. Flagged bathing zone when lifeguards on duty: weekends June, daily July-August. Dogs leashed. Wide and shallow at low water; mid-to-high tide suits swimming. A strong longshore current runs parallel to shore.
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Wind at Clonea Beach today: 8 kn SE (gusting 21 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects windsurfing 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 Clonea Beach today: 0.5 m, 10 s period from S, 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 windsurfing at Clonea Beach today is around 13:00 UTC, when conditions score 81/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Clonea Beach scores 87/100 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.
Clonea Beach 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.
Clonea Beach is a coastal location near Ballinroad in Ireland. 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 Clonea Beach, 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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