What is the surf like at Porthleven today?

This morning at Porthleven: 0.6ft swell, cloud, 16°, 4kt NNE. Swell, wind and tide sit on this page so you can decide before you drive.

What is the Porthleven surf forecast for the week?

Porthleven this week: Flat now. Best looking Sun 27: poor, 3.0ft.

How is the Porthleven 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 Porthleven 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.

Porthleven

Today · Tue 22 Sept · 04:20

Quality

Flat

Swell

0.6ft

Tide

14:5308:46

Weather

16°4kt NNE

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6-day surf report

Updated Tue 22 Sept 04:20

Praa Sands

Now · Tue 22

Flat

0.6ft

14–19°4kt NNE

14:5308:46

Wed 23

Flat

1.0ft

10s

11–19°12kt N

15:4109:42

Thu 24

Flat

0.9ft

10–19°5kt ENE

16:2010:27

Fri 25

Flat

0.9ft

11s

11–19°11kt NNW

16:5511:06

Sat 26

Flat

0.7ft

10s

8–18°6kt NNW

17:2811:44

Sun 27

Poor

3.0ft

7–17°7kt SSW

18:0312:21

The beach

Porthleven

Porthleven sits on the South 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°, 4kt NNE.

Cornwall’s famous reef. Needs a south-west swell, light north-east wind, and enough tide to cover the shelf.

If you are not sure, you are not ready. Watch a set from the pier first. It is shallower than it looks.

Faces SSW. Best swell S–WSW. Level: advanced. Crowd: busy.

On the sand

Before you paddle out at Porthleven

Parking

Cornwall Council Kittos Field, TR13 9JA, 57 long-stay spaces. 1 April–31 October, 9am–4pm: £1.30 / 1 hour, £2.50 / 2 hours, £5.50 / 4 hours, £7 / 24 hours, weekly £17.40; evenings 4pm–9am free. Winter 9am–4pm: £1 / £1.80 / £3 / £4.20. No overnight sleeping.

Vibe

The Met Office Porthleven West beach forecast has warned of large, powerful waves and that only experts should take part in water activities. This is not written up here as a learner or family hire beach.

Access & hazards

Met Office Porthleven West (Beach): “strong rips likely. Unsafe for novice water users.” Separate sea-state lines have read “Large, powerful waves. Only experts should take part in water activities.” RNLI South Cornwall (16 July 2026): daily 10am–6pm patrols at Porthleven in the peak summer desk with Praa Sands and neighbouring south-coast beaches. No flags means no lifeguards.

Sources Cornwall Council Kittos Field · Met Office Porthleven West · RNLI South Cornwall lifeguards 2026

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