Surfing
352 bathing waters that face open ocean, with today’s swell, the wind, the tide and the same sewage and water quality checks as everywhere else on this site. Because the water being clean matters whatever you came to do in it.
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This is not a list of surf breaks. It is worked out from the shape of the coast: how much of the horizon at each beach is open sea for four hundred kilometres, which is the fetch groundswell needs to build. It knows nothing about sandbanks, reefs, which tide a spot works on, or where the rips run. A great break may be missing and a listed beach may be unsurfable today.
The sea here is cold most of the year. The RNLI puts the average around Britain and Ireland at about 12°C and counts anything below 15°C as cold water, which can send your body into cold water shock. Each beach page below gives today’s temperature, the wind relative to the way that beach faces, and the tide. Nobody publishes a rip current forecast for Britain or Ireland, so this site cannot show you one. What cold water does to you.
The swell figures come from a model of the open sea on a grid of several kilometres, so two beaches near each other often share one reading, and any beach more than twelve kilometres from the nearest point the model holds is given nothing at all rather than a number about somewhere else. That includes some well known breaks.