Spot guide
Porthleven is an SW-facing reef break in Cornwall, United Kingdom. It picks up swell from SSE to S and S to WSW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 63% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NE: light winds or NE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Reef
- Faces
- SW (219°)
- Best swell
- SSW to W (200°–280°), 11 s or longer
- Best wind
- N to E offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 4–10 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- SSE to S (168.5° to 172.5°); S to WSW (175° to 255.5°)
- Offshore wind
- NE
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- Sevenstones Lightship · 56 km away
- Cams
- None yet