Local legend
Watergate Bay
Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom50.444, -5.041Beach break · faces WNW (282°)
Spot guide
Watergate Bay is a WNW-facing beach break in Newquay, Cornwall, United Kingdom. It picks up swell from WSW to WNW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 78% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the ESE: light winds or ESE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while WNW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Beach
- Faces
- WNW (282°)
- Best swell
- WSW to NW (250°–310°), 9 s or longer
- Best wind
- ENE to SSE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–6 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- WSW to WNW (240.5° to 290.5°)
- Offshore wind
- ESE
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- Sevenstones Lightship · 84 km away
- Cams
- None yet
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