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Today at Dawlish Warren Beach: Excellent for wing foiling — 89/100 for advanced level. Wind 14 kn E · Waves 0.6 m, 6 s · Tide -1.1 to 0.4 m. Best window around 08:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Dawlish Warren Beach: 0.6m waves with strong onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the morning, with Wing Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 61°F.
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Dawlish Warren Beach faces SE, so the prevailing westerly comes over the land before it reaches you. For wing foiling that usually means a gustier, less predictable flow than the raw wind speed suggests.
Today's wind is cross-onshore at 14 kn. Leaning onshore, which is the forgiving side for wing foiling: you can hold a line along the beach and anything that goes wrong still drifts you in.
Over the published window Dawlish Warren Beach clears 60/100 for wing foiling 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, Dawlish Warren Beach ranks 8th for wing foiling. 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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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 sheltered, family-oriented sandy beach on the Exe Estuary mouth, divided by wooden groynes shaping a low-grade, inconsistent right-hand beach break, most active in winter. It lies within a National Nature Reserve with strict byelaws: craft may land only at a designated Warren Point area (1 April-4 September) and must avoid Wildlife Refuge zones year-round. Submerged groynes become hazardous on the incoming tide. RNLI lifeguards patrol seasonally.
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Wind at Dawlish Warren Beach today: 14 kn E (gusting 27 kn). Wind direction relative to the shore affects wing foiling 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 Dawlish Warren Beach today: 0.6 m, 6 s period from S, 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 wing foiling at Dawlish Warren Beach today is around 06:00 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, Dawlish Warren Beach scores 67/100 today for kite 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.
Dawlish Warren 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.
Dawlish Warren Beach is a coastal location near Dawlish Warren 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 Dawlish Warren 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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