Cornwall, United Kingdom

Watergate Bay buoy: live swell

Watergate Bay is 3 km of west-facing sand between Newquay and Padstow. The Perranporth buoy is 14 km away, and the Sevenstones buoy watches the open sea.

The spot and its buoys

Buoy colour: wave height

Buoys for Watergate Bay

Check this one first14 km south-west

Perranporth Waverider

The buoy that best reflects the swell at the spot.

Swell
0.7 m
Period
13 s
Direction
W 276°
Max
1.2 m
Water
14.1 °C
Swell over 24 h

Reading at 01:00 PM

Offshore84 km south-west

Sevenstones Lightship

It sees the swell coming before it reaches the coast. NDBC 62107.

Swell
1.1 m
Period
7 s
Water
13.4 °C
Swell over 24 h

Reading at 01:00 PM

28 km east

Wind · Cardinham Bodmin

23 km/h
E

gusts 31 km/h

Reading at 01:00 PM

Watergate Bay wave forecast

Wave model GFS Wave 18 km · updated

Thu 5/11

0.8-0.9m

169 kJ

0.8m 11s

280°

0.7-0.8m

129 kJ

0.7m 11s

280°

0.6-0.7m

99 kJ

0.7m 11s

280°

Fri 6/11

0.5-0.6m

52 kJ

0.5m 10s

279°

0.4-0.5m

47 kJ

0.5m 10s

280°

0.4-0.5m

44 kJ

0.5m 10s

278°

0.4-0.5m

43 kJ

0.5m 10s

279°

0.4-0.5m

42 kJ

0.5m 10s

279°

0.4-0.5m

39 kJ

0.5m 10s

279°

Sat 7/11

0.4-0.5m

38 kJ

0.5m 10s

283°

0.4-0.5m

34 kJ

0.4m 10s

283°

0.4-0.5m

31 kJ

0.4m 10s

283°

0.4-0.5m

35 kJ

0.4m 10s

287°

0.4-0.4m

30 kJ

0.4m 10s

285°

0.4-0.4m

29 kJ

0.4m 10s

285°

Sun 8/11

0.3-0.4m

19 kJ

0.3m 9s

281°

0.3-0.4m

17 kJ

0.3m 9s

278°

0.3-0.4m

17 kJ

0.3m 9s

278°

0.3-0.3m

14 kJ

0.3m 9s

279°

0.3-0.4m

16 kJ

0.3m 9s

281°

0.3-0.4m

18 kJ

0.3m 9s

282°

Mon 9/11

0.4-0.5m

42 kJ

0.5m 10s

263°

0.5-0.6m

5 kJ

0.6m 3s

112°

0.6-0.7m

155 kJ

0.7m 13s

257°

0.7-0.9m

199 kJ

0.8m 13s

257°

0.8-1m

272 kJ

0.9m 13s

258°

0.9-1.1m

287 kJ

1m 12s

259°

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