What is the surf like at Chapel Porth today?

This morning at Chapel Porth: 2.5ft swell, cloud, 16°, 3kt ENE. Swell, wind and tide sit on this page so you can decide before you drive.

What is the Chapel Porth surf forecast for the week?

Chapel Porth this week: Poor now. Best looking Fri 25: pumping, 5.0ft.

How is the Chapel Porth surf report scored?

Open-Meteo supplies swell, wind and weather on a three-hour cron. WorldTides supplies the high and low clocks. We then score Chapel Porth for wrap, wind and the usual tide window. The number at the top is this hour. Later week cards are the best hour of that day. Height is the swell that makes the beach, not the raw model.

Chapel Porth

Today · Tue 22 Sept · 04:20

Quality

Poor

Swell

2.5ft

Tide

15:2209:14

Weather

16°3kt ENE

6-day surf report

Updated Tue 22 Sept 04:20

Perranporth

Now · Tue 22

Poor

2.5ft

15–21°3kt ENE

15:2209:14

Wed 23

Clean

4.6ft

12s

12–18°5kt SW

16:0610:04

Thu 24

Clean

4.5ft

11–20°4kt E

16:4210:44

Fri 25

Pumping

5.0ft

14s

13–20°4kt S

17:1611:20

Sat 26

Pumping

7.2ft

10s

9–18°10kt NNW

17:4911:55

Sun 27

Clean

5.7ft

10–17°9kt SSE

18:2312:29

The beach

Chapel Porth

Chapel Porth sits on the North Coast run. Swell, wind and tide for this beach and the neighbours, so you can pick a peak before you leave the car park. Today is cloud, 16°, 3kt ENE.

Steep, punchy beach break under the cliffs. A north-coast favourite when Porthtowan is messy or packed.

Needs a drop. High tide eats the beach. The café at the top is the post-session.

Faces W. Best swell WSW–NW. Level: intermediate. Crowd: average.

On the sand

Before you paddle out at Chapel Porth

Parking

National Trust Chapel Porth (TR5 0NS). Charges apply; members free (JustPark 80536). Non-member prices are posted on site. Access from the car park to the sand is uneven and steep.

Hire & lessons

No dedicated Chapel Porth school on an official site. Nearest verified hire and lessons: Tris Surf Shop at Porthtowan. The two beaches join at low tide.

Tris Surf Shop, Porthtowan

Vibe

National Trust: a popular, wilder cove with mining heritage. No sourced contest or longboard claim, treat it as the quieter neighbour of Porthtowan when that beach is messy or packed.

Access & hazards

RNLI 2026 lists include Chapel Porth (Easter and daily from 2 May). Porthtowan RNLI: at low tide the sand stretches to Chapel Porth. High tide eats the beach, that is already the local tip on this page.

Sources National Trust Chapel Porth · Tris Surf Shop · RNLI Porthtowan (low-tide join)

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