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Today at Cooden Beach: Epic! for windsurfing — 91/100 for intermediate level. Wind 13 kn E · Waves 0.6 m, 4 s · Tide -1.8 to 0.8 m. Best window around 20:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Cooden Beach: 0.4m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 17°C / 62°F.
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Cooden 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 cross-onshore at 13 kn. Leaning onshore, which is the forgiving side for windsurfing: you can hold a line along the beach and anything that goes wrong still drifts you in.
Over the published window Cooden 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, 10 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Cooden Beach is the best of them for windsurfing — so if you are travelling for it, this is the one.
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 quiet, rural shingle beach divided by timber groynes, unsupervised and with minimal facilities, valued mainly as a wind-sports venue for kite surfing and windsurfing in a designated area separate from the bathing zone (8-knot limit). Sandy flats are exposed at low tide; groynes are a hazard near high water. Jet skis are banned from launching here, and inflatables are prohibited under orange flags. No lifeguard; low-to-mid rising tide suits launches best.
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Wind at Cooden Beach today: 13 kn E (gusting 25 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 Cooden Beach today: 0.6 m, 4 s period from SE, 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 windsurfing at Cooden Beach today is around 20:00 UTC, when conditions score 91/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Cooden Beach scores 88/100 today for kite 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.
Cooden 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.
Cooden Beach is a coastal location near Normans Bay in United Kingdom. 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 Cooden 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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