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Today at Playa de El Palmar: Excellent for windsurfing — 81/100 for intermediate level. Wind 12 kn W · Waves 1.0 m, 15 s · Tide -0.8 to 0.1 m. Best window around 22:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de El Palmar: 0.8m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the midday, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 21°C / 70°F.
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Playa de El Palmar faces SW, open to the prevailing westerlies, so the wind arrives off the water rather than filtered through the land — the clean, steady flow windsurfing wants, and the reason gusts here are sea breezes rather than land turbulence.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 12 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 Playa de El Palmar clears 60/100 for windsurfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 11 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Playa de El Palmar ranks 16th 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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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.
An 8 km exposed Atlantic beach break on the Costa de la Luz with a pure sandy bottom and multiple sandbar peaks along its length, mostly right-hand waves best on SW swell with offshore easterly wind. Low-to-mid tide gives cleaner shape and safer entry; high tide brings a powerful shorebreak and strong currents. Kitesurfing is banned here in summer. Municipal lifeguards operate mid-June to late September with a rescue boat and quad.
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Wind at Playa de El Palmar today: 12 kn W (gusting 20 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 Playa de El Palmar today: 1.0 m, 15 s period from E, crumbling 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 Playa de El Palmar today is around 22:00 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, Playa de El Palmar scores 76/100 today for surfing — Good. 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.
Playa de El Palmar 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.
Playa de El Palmar is a coastal location near La Dehesa in Spain. 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 Playa de El Palmar, 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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