Local legend
Freshwater West
Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom51.653, -5.062Beach break · faces WSW (241°)
Spot guide
Freshwater West is a WSW-facing beach break in Castlemartin, Pembrokeshire, United Kingdom. It picks up swell from SSW and SSW to W, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 69% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the ENE: light winds or ENE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while WSW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- WSW (241°)
- Best swell
- SW to WNW (220°–290°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- NNE to ESE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- SSW (195° to 204°); SSW to W (206° to 267.5°)
- Offshore wind
- ENE
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- Sevenstones Lightship · 187 km away
- Cams
- None yet