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Today at Praia Da Canteira: Good for windsurfing — 66/100 for beginner level. Wind 6 kn SE · Waves 0.5 m, 15 s · Tide -1.0 to 0.3 m. Best window around 19:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Praia Da Canteira: 0.4m waves with light cross-shore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the afternoon, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 60°F.
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Praia Da Canteira 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 6 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 Praia Da Canteira 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, 1 of 11 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 30 scored spots within reach today, Praia Da Canteira ranks 2nd 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 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.
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A sheltered ría beach of coarse golden sand, about 650m long, beside the island's access bridge. Calm, gently shelving water suits swimming and kayaking - the island's kayak club is based here - with windsurfing and kitesurfing possible on days of strong north wind; this is flatwater rather than a surf spot. Freely accessible with no permit or zoning restriction. Not on the municipality's official Blue Flag list, and no lifeguard service is confirmed here.
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Wind at Praia Da Canteira today: 6 kn SE (gusting 19 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 Praia Da Canteira today: 0.5 m, 15 s period from N, 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 Praia Da Canteira today is around 23:00 UTC, when conditions score 84/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Praia Da Canteira scores 84/100 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.
Praia Da Canteira 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.
Praia Da Canteira is a coastal location near O Pombal 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 Praia Da Canteira, 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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