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Today at Wonwell Beach: Excellent for windsurfing — 87/100 for advanced level. Wind 8 kn SE · Waves 1.0 m, 6 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.5 m. Best window around 13:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Wonwell Beach: 0.7m waves with moderate offshore 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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Wonwell Beach faces W, 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-offshore at 8 kn. Leaning offshore, so a failure drifts you away from the beach rather than back to it — rideable for windsurfing, but not the direction to push your luck in.
Over the published window Wonwell Beach clears 60/100 for windsurfing at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 10 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Wonwell Beach ranks 9th 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 remote beach on an estuary's east bank, with a wide sandy expanse at low tide shrinking to smaller coves as the tide rises. Rock pools are present, and a river-mouth sandbar produces small waves in southerly conditions; inside it, water is flat, suiting beginner windsurfing, kitesurfing and paddling. Parking is limited via a narrow lane. No lifeguard service; swimming is discouraged, and safe access is about an hour either side of low tide.
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Wind at Wonwell Beach today: 8 kn SE (gusting 28 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 Wonwell Beach today: 1.0 m, 6 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 Wonwell Beach today is around 13:00 UTC, when conditions score 85/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Wonwell Beach scores 64/100 today for surfing — Okay. 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.
Wonwell 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.
Wonwell Beach is a coastal location near Mothecombe 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 Wonwell 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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