Slapton Sands
Devon Β· 33 hours over 4 days
SSMTWTF
Next: Monday 07:00β16:00 Β· 17 kt ESE
A UK kite guide that checks the tide too
windplease reads the hourly forecast against each beachβs own wind directions and tide rule, and marks the hours where both work. Kitesurf only, for now.
110 UK kite launches Β· updated hourly
Where to kite this week, and when.
110 launches across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, checked against the next seven days of wind and tide. Each one knows which winds work on its beach, what the tide does to it, and what to look out for when you get there.
See this weekWindy at 60 of 110 spots this week.
- Windy this week
- 60of 110 spots
- Best day
- Thursday37 spots on
- Windiest spot
- Oxwich Bay40 hours of wind
- Todayβs wind
- 4 ktfrom the ENE, all spots averaged
- 69England
- 19Scotland
- 16Wales
- 6Northern Ireland
This week
The 24 windiest spots, day by day, with the tide already worked in.
Each pill is one day, 05:00 to 20:00. Blue is rideable, deeper as it gets more powered. Hatched yellow is wind on the wrong tide, red is offshore or too much. Hover or tab onto a day to have it in words.
- Rideable light to powered
- Wind, wrong tide
- Offshore or too strong
- Too light or wrong way
- Dark
- Evenings & weekends
17 of 24 rideableNext session
- Oxwich Bay
Swansea
Monday 13:00β16:0015 kt E
- Tenby South Beach
Pembrokeshire
Monday 08:00β16:0015 kt ESE
- Sandwich Bay
Kent
Tuesday 08:00β11:0020 kt ESE
- Portland Harbour
Dorset
Tuesday 07:00β16:0013 kt E
- Slapton Sands
Devon
Monday 07:00β16:0017 kt ESE
Monday 13:00β16:0016 kt E
- Greatstone
Kent
Tuesday 07:00β09:0013 kt E
- Sea Palling
Norfolk
Thursday 11:00β16:0014 kt NE
- Felixstowe Ferry
Suffolk
Tuesday 07:00β11:0013 kt ESE
- Bembridge
Isle of Wight
Nothing this week
- Gott Bay, Tiree
Argyll and Bute
Monday 08:00β13:0012 kt SE
- Murlough & Newcastle
County Down
Tuesday 08:00β10:0012 kt ESE
- Pevensey Bay
East Sussex
Tuesday 14:00β16:0012 kt E
- Praa Sands
Cornwall
Monday 07:00β13:0020 kt ESE
- Abersoch β The Warren
Gwynedd
Nothing this week
- Knoll Beach, Studland
Dorset
Nothing this week
- Mablethorpe
Lincolnshire
Tuesday 13:00β16:0012 kt SE
- Calshot
Hampshire
Nothing this week
- Shoebury East Beach
Essex
Tuesday 08:00β11:0013 kt ESE
Nothing this week
- Branksome Chine
Dorset
Nothing this week
- Thorntonloch
East Lothian
Nothing this week
- Tyrella
County Down
Tuesday 08:00β10:0012 kt ESE
- Dunnet Bay
Highland
Wednesday 12:00β14:0013 kt NNW
The 24 windiest of 110. Wind and sea level from Open-Meteo, updated hourly. A forecast, not a promise that it is safe to launch.
Worth the drive
The 4 spots with the most rideable hours this week.
View spot
Tenby South Beach
Pembrokeshire Β· 22 hours over 3 days
SSMTWTF
Next: Monday 08:00β16:00 Β· 15 kt ESE
Portland Harbour
Dorset Β· 21 hours over 3 days
SSMTWTF
Next: Tuesday 07:00β16:00 Β· 13 kt E
Preston Sands, Paignton
Devon Β· 19 hours over 4 days
SSMTWTF
Next: Monday 13:00β16:00 Β· 16 kt E
In every spot
Forecast apps give you the wind. The beach needs more than that.
Tide, not wind, kills most UK sessions. So every launch carries the local layer a forecast canβt: the tide it needs, what can hurt you, and the rules on the day.
Tide, in plain English
39 local tide rules, in plain words
- A best state of tide on all 110
- Cut-off risk flagged at 53 launches
- Sessions only counted when the tide allows
Hazards, by name
327 named hazards, typed and rated
- 160 of them rated high
- Rocks, wrecks, currents, ranges, groynes
- 404 read-before-you-drive notes
Permits and seasonal bans
30 launches with a seasonal restriction
- 10 need a permit or membership
- Kite, teaching and swimming zones mapped at 11
- Who may teach, and where
Sea breeze, per spot
48 launches carry a sea-breeze profile with the months it usually works. The best known also say when it fills, peaks and drops, and why.
Read Camberβs sea breezeConfidence and sources
Every record says where it came from and how sure it is: 396 sources across the guide, 25 launches at high confidence, and the thin ones marked as thin.
About the dataOne spot, in full
Camber, where a sunny spring day can bring a third more wind than forecast.
Twelve miles of flat marsh sit behind the beach. On a clear day it heats fast and pulls the sea breeze in hard, until the sea itself warms up in mid-September and the effect fades.
That is the kind of thing a generic sea-breeze formula under-forecasts, and why every record is written for its own beach.
- TideThe rule
No kiting within 3 hours either side of high water.
- Sea breezeApril to September
Fills around 11:00, peaks 15:00, drops by 19:00.
- Hazards3 rated high
wreck, sea defence, military.
- Rules3 zones on the beach
The teaching zone is for licensed schools. Independent riders use the freeride zone.
- Sources8 sources
Confidence high, from 4 agreeing sources.
When your spot turns on
Pick the beach you ride and get one short email when a session shows up in the forecast there, worked out from your own wind range. No account, and every email has a link to stop them.