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Today at Thorpeness Beach: Excellent for wing foiling — 81/100 for advanced level. Wind 9 kn SE · Waves 1.5 m, 7 s · Tide -1.3 to 0.2 m. Best window around 21:00 UTC. Today's conditions at Thorpeness Beach: 1.0m waves with moderate onshore wind. Kite Foiling looks Excellent in the morning, with E-Foiling also worth considering. Water temperature is 16°C / 60°F.
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Thorpeness 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 onshore at 9 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 Thorpeness Beach clears 60/100 for wing foiling at Intermediate, Advanced, Expert levels — that is who this spot is for on this sport. Today, 9 of 10 daylight hours clear that line at Intermediate.
Among the 31 scored spots within reach today, Thorpeness Beach ranks 18th 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 quiet, unlifeguarded shingle beach shelving steeply to sand at low tide, facing ESE with meaningful tidal range and wind-swell exposure, suited to kayaking, paddleboarding, and windsports rather than surf; visitors are advised against rough or unfamiliar conditions. A seasonal dog ban covers one stretch, and vegetated shingle habitat should be avoided underfoot. Severe erosion at the northern end carries a standing warning against that cliff section.
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Wind at Thorpeness Beach today: 9 kn SE (gusting 20 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 Thorpeness Beach today: 1.5 m, 7 s period from SW, 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 wing foiling at Thorpeness Beach today is around 21:00 UTC, when conditions score 79/100 for intermediate level. Conditions can shift by the hour — the 4Shor app shows the full 24-hour score chart.
For beginners, Thorpeness Beach scores 58/100 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.
Thorpeness 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.
Thorpeness Beach is a coastal location near Thorpeness 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 Thorpeness 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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