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Today at Playa Punta Prieta: Excellent for windsurfing — 81/100 for intermediate level. Wind 5 kn SE · Waves 1.0 m, 13 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.3 m. Best window around 18:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa Punta Prieta: 0.9m waves with light cross-shore wind. Surfing looks Excellent in the late morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Playa Punta Prieta faces NE, 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 5 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 Playa Punta Prieta clears 60/100 for windsurfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 7 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 13 scored spots within reach today, Playa Punta Prieta ranks 4th 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.
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 roughly 400m bay sheltered by reefs and an offshore islet, forming a flat-water lagoon used for windsurfing, wing foiling, swimming and SUP, with a reef further out producing waves. The sandy bottom has rock and volcanic relief exposed at low tide, requiring water shoes; entry/exit is best within about 1.5 hours of high tide. It lies within a protected dunes natural park. Lifeguards are present, with naturist use on the northern stretch.
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Wind at Playa Punta Prieta today: 5 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 Playa Punta Prieta today: 1.0 m, 13 s period from NW, 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 Playa Punta Prieta today is around 18:00 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 Punta Prieta scores 90/100 today for surfing — Epic!. 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 Punta Prieta is scored for Surfing, Windsurfing, 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 Punta Prieta is a coastal location near Corralejo Playa 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 Punta Prieta, 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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