St Ives Bay, Cornwall
Surf and wave forecast for Godrevy and Gwithian beaches in St Ives Bay
Check the next seven days of wave height, period, direction and wind for Godrevy and Gwithian, with hourly detail and daily summaries.
About Surfing in St Ives Bay, Cornwall
St Ives Bay offers diverse surf experiences depending on your paddling spot. Porthmeor in St Ives, facing northwest into Atlantic swell, delivers punchy hollow peaks when sandbanks align, especially during mid to low tide.
In the main bay, the stretch from Hayle Estuary at the south end to Godrevy at the north consistently catches more swell due to its exposure and wider angle to the Atlantic. Here the waves are generally longer, open and larger. On days when Porthmeor is shoulder-high Gwithian can easily be overhead with size increasing as you move north towards Godrevy Head for a typical westerly swell.
St Ives Bay’s crescent shape provides numerous offshore wind options even in winter as long as the swells are big enough to get into what in summer are normally flat surf spots on the west side of the bay.
Godrevy surf outlook
7-day wave forecast
Hour-by-hour waves, period, wind and primary swell for Godrevy and Gwithian beaches in St Ives Bay.
Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedThere should be small, clean waves early, as the WNW swell is well aligned and winds are cross-offshore. They should become smaller and weaker later, with short-period, angled swell making conditions more mixed despite light cross-offshore winds.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedThere should be small to moderate, clean surf early, with a well-aligned north-west swell and cross-offshore winds. It should fade to little, weaker and less consistent surf later as the swell turns angled and short-period, though easterly winds remain offshore.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedSmall, clean surf is likely: the early short-period N swell is weaker and angled, while the late W swell is better aligned and may build to moderate waves. Light offshore or cross-offshore winds should keep conditions clean; the model wave height is only 1.3–1.8 ft, not breaking wave height.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedThere should be small, clean waves, best early when the WSW swell is well aligned and cross-offshore winds blow; later, the angled SW swell and shorter 7-second period should make them less organised despite a model wave height of 1.5–1.6ft.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedThere should be small, mixed waves overall: the WSW swell is angled into Godrevy, though it becomes better aligned later. Early cross-offshore winds should keep conditions cleaner; later cross-onshore winds will make them messier, despite the swell’s modest 7–8-second period.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedThere should be small to moderate waves, best early when the WSW swell is well aligned, but cross-onshore northerly winds will make them mixed rather than clean. They should ease and become messier later; the model wave height is 1.5–2.3ft offshore, not breaking beach height.
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Godrevy Forecast Summary
AI generatedSmall waves are expected, mostly clean in offshore or cross-offshore easterly winds. They will be weaker and choppier early, improving later as the better-aligned swell reaches a moderate 6–7-second period.
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