South Wales · faces WSW

Rest Bay

Updated Sun 11 Oct, 19:36

A west-facing sandy beach with playful, walling peaks, the most consistent spot in the area and popular with all levels and surf schools, on everything from soft-tops to shortboards. It’s best from mid to high on the incoming tide, peakier as it drops, and can be tiny at low. Big spring highs stop it breaking. On the pushing tide a rip pulls towards the rocks on the left. Offshore in an easterly to north-easterly.

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BreakSwell windowScarweather WaveNet, 16km WSWLatest buoy reading, Sun 19:00:2.6ft at 7.4sWSW 252°sea 17.5°CEvery spot on the mapMap © OpenFreeMap © OpenMapTiles © OpenStreetMap contributors

Day	Surf	Swell	Wind mph
MonMonday12 Oct	2–3ft	3.2ft9sWSW	11ggusts 15 crosscross-shore
TueTuesday13 Oct	5–6ft	8.9ft6sWSW	22ggusts 35 ononshore
WedWednesday14 Oct	3–4ft	3.5ft8sWSW	13ggusts 17 cross-oncross-onshore
ThuThursday15 Oct	4–5ft	5.5ft8sW	15ggusts 23 cross-oncross-onshore
FriFriday16 Oct	3–4ft	4.8ft8sW	14ggusts 20 crosscross-shore
SatSaturday17 Oct	2–3ft	3.0ft8sW	7ggusts 11 cross-offcross-offshore
SunSunday18 Oct	1–2ft	1.4ft8sW	3–10ggusts 15 cross-offcross-offshore
MonMonday19 Oct	Flat	0.5ft8sW	8–17ggusts 24 offoffshore
TueTuesday20 Oct	1ft	1.0ft11sW	5–21 offoffshore
WedWednesday21 Oct	1–2ft	1.1ft11sWSW	2–14 offoffshore

Squares rate the day in four parts, early → evening. Stars, surf, swell and wind are for the day's best two hours in a row still to come, from the weaker of the two; each day is hour by hour below.

During the day, early → evening
Good — waves, clean surface
Fair — small or choppy
Poor — flat or blown out
Stars out of 5; faded ones are lost to the wind
Wind clean, choppy or blown out; g is gusts
Swell period 12s groundswell, 6s windswell

Monday 12 Oct

Up to 3–4ft · sea 17.1°C

LW 01:53 −4.4m
HW 08:01 +4.3m
LW 14:07 −4.3m
HW 20:17 +4.2m
Sunrise 07:34
Sunset 18:28

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
fair	06:00	2–3ft	2.9ft7sSW	14ggusts 23 cross-offcross-offshore	+1.8m ↑ high	16°C
fair	09:00	2–3ft	3.2ft9sWSW	11ggusts 15 crosscross-shore	+3.7m ↓ high	17°C
fair	12:00	3–4ft	3.5ft9sWSW	4–13 cross-oncross-onshore	−2.3m ↓ low	17°C
poor	15:00	3–4ft	3.6ft9sWSW	6–14ggusts 16 ononshore	−3.9m ↑ low	17°C
poor	18:00	3–4ft	3.7ft9sWSW	7–14ggusts 17 ononshore	+1.2m ↑ mid	17°C
fair	21:00	3–4ft	3.8ft8sWSW	4–11ggusts 12 cross-oncross-onshore	+3.9m ↓ high	17°C

Waves: DWD EWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Tuesday 13 Oct

Up to 5–6ft · sea 17.1°C

LW 02:24 −4.2m
HW 08:34 +4.0m
LW 14:39 −4.2m
HW 20:50 +3.7m
Sunrise 07:35
Sunset 18:26

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
poor	06:00	3–4ft	5.8ft5sSW	22ggusts 30 ononshore	+0.6m ↑ mid	17°C
poor	09:00	4–6ft	8.1ft6sWSW	21ggusts 33 cross-oncross-onshore	+3.9m ↓ high	17°C
poor	12:00	4–5ft	7.6ft6sWSW	21ggusts 30 cross-oncross-onshore	−1.4m ↓ mid	17°C
poor	15:00	4–5ft	7.2ft6sWSW	21ggusts 29 cross-oncross-onshore	−4.2m ↑ low	17°C
poor	18:00	4–5ft	4.1ft8sWSW4.5ft5sW	15–23ggusts 27 cross-oncross-onshore	−0.1m ↑ mid	17°C
poor	21:00	3–4ft	4.0ft8sWSW3.4ft4sW	12–20ggusts 22 cross-oncross-onshore	+3.7m ↓ high	17°C

Waves: DWD EWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Wednesday 14 Oct

Up to 3–4ft · sea 17°C

LW 02:54 −4.1m
HW 09:08 +3.5m
LW 15:09 −3.8m
HW 21:21 +3.3m
Sunrise 07:37
Sunset 18:24

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
poor	06:00	3–4ft	3.7ft8sWSW	12ggusts 16 ononshore	−0.6m ↑ mid	15°C
poor	09:00	3–4ft	3.5ft8sWSW	14ggusts 18 cross-oncross-onshore	+3.5m ↑ high	15°C
poor	12:00	3ft	3.4ft8sWSW	16ggusts 19 cross-oncross-onshore	−0.2m ↓ mid	16°C
poor	15:00	3–4ft	3.8ft7sWSW2.6ft4sSW	12–19ggusts 24 ononshore	−3.8m ↓ low	17°C
poor	18:00	3–4ft	3.9ft7sWSW3.1ft4sSW	17ggusts 23 ononshore	−0.9m ↑ mid	17°C
poor	21:00	3–4ft	4.5ft7sWSW	17ggusts 24 cross-oncross-onshore	+3.2m ↑ high	16°C

Waves: DWD EWAM, Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Thursday 15 Oct

Up to 4–6ft · sea 17°C

LW 03:23 −3.5m
HW 09:35 +3.1m
LW 15:42 −3.4m
HW 21:50 +2.7m
Sunrise 07:39
Sunset 18:22

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
poor	06:00	3–5ft	5.2ft8sW	14ggusts 22 cross-oncross-onshore	−1.1m ↑ mid	16°C
poor	09:00	4–5ft	5.7ft8sW	16ggusts 24 cross-oncross-onshore	+2.9m ↑ high	17°C
poor	12:00	4–5ft	5.6ft8sW	16ggusts 22 cross-oncross-onshore	+0.7m ↓ mid	17°C
poor	15:00	4–5ft	5.7ft9sW	9–18ggusts 22 ononshore	−3.2m ↓ low	17°C
poor	18:00	4–6ft	6.1ft9sW	13ggusts 21 ononshore	−1.5m ↑ low	18°C
poor	21:00	4–5ft	6.4ft8sW	12–19ggusts 21 ononshore	+2.4m ↑ high	17°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Friday 16 Oct

Up to 3–4ft · sea 16.9°C

LW 03:55 −3.1m
HW 10:02 +2.5m
LW 16:16 −3.1m
HW 22:24 +2.0m
Sunrise 07:40
Sunset 18:20

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
fair	06:00	3–4ft	5.0ft8sW	15ggusts 21 crosscross-shore	−1.7m ↑ low	13°C
fair	09:00	3–4ft	4.7ft8sW	13ggusts 20 crosscross-shore	+2.0m ↑ high	13°C
fair	12:00	3–4ft	4.3ft9sW	15ggusts 21 crosscross-shore	+1.1m ↓ high	14°C
fair	15:00	3–4ft	3.9ft9sW	17ggusts 24 crosscross-shore	−2.6m ↓ low	15°C
fair	18:00	3–4ft	3.7ft9sW	15ggusts 22 crosscross-shore	−2.2m ↑ low	14°C
fair	21:00	3ft	3.7ft8sW	11ggusts 16 crosscross-shore	+1.4m ↑ high	13°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Saturday 17 Oct

Up to 2–3ft · sea 16.7°C

LW 04:38 −2.8m
HW 10:40 +1.8m
LW 17:03 −2.7m
HW 23:02 +1.4m
Sunrise 07:42
Sunset 18:17

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
good	06:00	2–3ft	3.1ft8sW	4–10 cross-offcross-offshore	−2.3m ↑ low	11°C
good	09:00	2–3ft	2.9ft8sW	6ggusts 12 cross-offcross-offshore	+1.0m ↑ high	12°C
good	12:00	2–3ft	2.6ft8sW	2–9ggusts 12 cross-offcross-offshore	+1.3m ↓ high	13°C
good	15:00	2ft	2.4ft8sW	4–11ggusts 12 cross-offcross-offshore	−1.7m ↓ low	13°C
good	18:00	2ft	2.2ft8sW	5–12ggusts 16 cross-offcross-offshore	−2.5m ↑ low	14°C
good	21:00	2ft	2.0ft8sW	5–12ggusts 16 offoffshore	+0.4m ↑ high	13°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Sunday 18 Oct

Up to 1–2ft · sea 16.5°C

LW 05:28 −2.4m
HW 11:25 +1.3m
LW 18:01 −2.4m
HW 23:55 +0.9m
Sunrise 07:44
Sunset 18:15

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
good	06:00	1–2ft	1.5ft8sW	7ggusts 14 cross-offcross-offshore	−2.4m ↑ low	9°C
good	09:00	1–2ft	1.4ft8sW	2–11ggusts 17 cross-offcross-offshore	+0.1m ↑ high	10°C
fair	12:00	1ft	1.3ft8sW	4–16ggusts 21 cross-offcross-offshore	+1.2m ↓ high	13°C
fair	15:00	1ft	1.2ft8sW	7–17ggusts 22 crosscross-shore	−0.8m ↓ mid	13°C
fair	18:00	1ft	1.0ft7sW	12ggusts 22 crosscross-shore	−2.4m ↓ low	13°C
fair	21:00	1ft	0.9ft7sW	14ggusts 24 crosscross-shore	−0.5m ↑ mid	12°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of Met Office, ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Monday 19 Oct

Flat · sea 16.4°C

LW 06:27 −2.2m
HW 12:35 +0.9m
LW 19:10 −2.1m
Sunrise 07:46
Sunset 18:13

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
poor	06:00	Flat	0.6ft8sW	9–16ggusts 23 offoffshore	−2.2m ↓ low	11°C
poor	09:00	Flat	0.5ft7sW	8–17ggusts 25 offoffshore	−0.8m ↑ mid	12°C
poor	12:00	Flat	0.3ft15sW0.4ft8sW	5–19ggusts 25 offoffshore	+0.9m ↑ high	13°C
poor	15:00	Flat	0.5ft11sW0.4ft9sSSW	4–19ggusts 24 offoffshore	+0.2m ↓ high	14°C
poor	18:00	Flat	0.6ft12sW	3–17ggusts 25 offoffshore	−1.8m ↓ low	14°C
fair	21:00	1ft	0.7ft12sW	5–19ggusts 26 offoffshore	−1.4m ↑ low	13°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of ECMWF IFS, DWD ICON, NOAA GFS

Tuesday 20 Oct

Up to 1ft · sea 16.2°C

HW 01:31 +0.7m
LW 07:43 −2.0m
HW 14:24 +1.0m
LW 20:28 −2.1m
Sunrise 07:47
Sunset 18:11

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
fair	06:00	1ft	1.0ft11sW	7–21ggusts 24 offoffshore	−1.4m ↓ low	10°C
fair	09:00	1ft	1.0ft11sW	4–21 offoffshore	−1.6m ↑ low	11°C
fair	12:00	1ft	1.0ft10sW	2–21 offoffshore	+0.3m ↑ high	13°C
fair	15:00	1ft	1.0ft10sW	6–19ggusts 21 offoffshore	+0.9m ↓ high	14°C
fair	18:00	1ft	0.9ft10sW	10–16ggusts 20 offoffshore	−0.9m ↓ mid	13°C
fair	21:00	1ft	0.9ft10sW	12ggusts 19 offoffshore	–	13°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM · Wind: the median of ECMWF IFS, NOAA GFS

Wednesday 21 Oct

Up to 1–2ft · sea 16.2°C

Sunrise 07:49
Sunset 18:09

	Time	Surf	Swell	Wind mph	Tide	SkyWeather
good	06:00	1–2ft	1.2ft11sWSW	2–14 offoffshore	No tide forecast this far ahead	11°C
good	09:00	1–2ft	1.1ft11sWSW	2–14 offoffshore		12°C
good	12:00	1ft	1.1ft11sWSW	3–16 offoffshore		14°C
fair	15:00	1ft	1.0ft11sWSW	4–14ggusts 21 cross-offcross-offshore		14°C
fair	18:00	1ft	1.0ft10sWSW	4–11ggusts 24 cross-offcross-offshore		13°C
fair	21:00	1ft	1.0ft10sWSW	8ggusts 24 offoffshore		12°C

Waves: Météo-France MFWAM, NOAA GFS · Wind: the median of ECMWF IFS, NOAA GFS