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Today at Playa de Barlovento: Excellent for wing foiling — 87/100 for intermediate level. Wind 6 kn SE · Waves 0.5 m, 7 s · Tide -0.7 to 0.3 m. Best window around 21:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Playa de Barlovento: 0.4m waves with light onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Epic! in the evening, with Kite Surfing also worth considering. Water temperature is 23°C / 74°F.
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Playa de Barlovento 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 onshore at 6 kn. Onshore is the safest direction for wing foiling here — anything that goes wrong drifts you back to the beach — at the cost of a choppier surface.
Over the published window Playa de Barlovento clears 60/100 for wing foiling 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, 9 of 12 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 14 scored spots within reach today, Playa de Barlovento is the best of them for wing foiling — so if you are travelling for it, this is the one.
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 rocky, wind-exposed reef/point break on the east coast, just south of a sheltered, lifeguarded family beach. Wave peaks break left and right, roughly 1-3m, best April-September on NE swell; kite and windsurf work in N/NW/NE trade winds. Bottom is small, sandy with rocks and stones. No dogs or nudism reported nearby. The break itself is largely unpatrolled - lifeguard cover is at the adjacent beach only, seasonal 15 June-15 October.
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Wind at Playa de Barlovento today: 6 kn SE (gusting 18 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 Playa de Barlovento today: 0.5 m, 7 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 Playa de Barlovento today is around 21:00 UTC, when conditions score 87/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Playa de Barlovento scores 85/100 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.
Playa de Barlovento 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 Barlovento is a coastal location near Puerto Lajas 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 Barlovento, 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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