Alvor
Portimão, Algarve, Portugal37.120, -8.600Beach break · faces S (170°)
Spot guide
Alvor is an S-facing beach break in Portimão, Algarve, Portugal. It picks up swell from S to WSW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 72% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the N: light winds or N breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while S onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- S (170°)
- Best swell
- S to SSW (189°–211°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- NW to NE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- S to WSW (189.5° to 253°)
- Offshore wind
- N
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- 2
Cams at Alvor
- Alvor · watch on MEO BeachCam ↗
- Alvor Nascente · watch on MEO BeachCam ↗
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