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Today at Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville: Excellent for windsurfing — 85/100 for expert level. Wind 12 kn W · Waves 0.3 m, 1 s · Tide -0.5 to -0.2 m. Best window around 02:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville: 0.3m waves with moderate cross-shore wind. E-Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with Kite Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 21°C / 69°F.
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Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville 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-shore at 12 kn. Straight cross-shore is the classic windsurfing direction: it lets you hold a line along the beach rather than fighting to get back to it.
Over the published window Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville 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, 6 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville is level with one other at the top for windsurfing — nothing nearby is scoring better, so pick on distance.
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.
The central beach of a resort town: flat, fine sand, a gentle shelving entry, clear water and a sailing school, fronted by a promenade. Calm, suiting swimmers and beginners; the town's kitesurf zone lies elsewhere, to the west. Access is closed nightly 23:00-06:00, and private jet-skis are banned from the port and canal. A lifeguard post covers the beach daily late June to end of August plus edge-season weekends, 11:00-18:30. Dogs are permitted.
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Wind at Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville today: 12 kn W (gusting 45 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 Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville today: 0.3 m, 1 s period from N, 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 Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville today is around 03:00 UTC, when conditions score 86/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville scores 80/100 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.
Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville 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.
Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville is a coastal location near Palavas-les-Flots 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 Plage de l’Hôtel de Ville, 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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