Praia do Meco
Sesimbra · beach
Short-period windswell — weak and disorganised
0.7m @ 6–8s WNW · 1kW/m · +0.2m @ 13s NNWsecondary swell · 1kn NNW →cross
8-day outlook · Intermediate
Hour by hour
| Time | Score | Swell | Wind | Tide |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 07:00 | 1.5 | 0.7m 6s NW+0.1m 11s SW | 1kn SE ↗ | 0.7 ↑ |
| 08:00 | 0.8 | 0.7m 6s NW+0.1m 11s WSW | 2kn ENE ↗ | 0.9 ↑ |
| 09:00 | 0.5 | 0.7m 6s WNW+0.1m 12s WNW | 1kn E ↗ | 1.0 ↑ |
| 10:00 | 0.5 | 0.7m 6–8s WNW+0.1m 13s NNW | 1kn NE → | 1.0 ↓ |
| 11:00 | 0.9 | 0.7m 6–8s WNW+0.2m 13s NNW | 1kn NNW → | 0.9 ↓ |
| 12:00 | 1.6 | 0.7m 6–8s WNW+0.2m 13s NNW | 2kn NNW → | 0.7 ↓ |
| 13:00 | 1.8 | 0.7m 6–8s WNW+0.3m 13s NNW | 3kn NW ↘ | 0.4 ↓ |
| 14:00 | 1.2 | 0.7m 6s WNW+0.3m 13s NNW | 4kn W ↘ | 0.2 ↓ |
| 15:00 | 0.4 | 0.6m 6s WNW+0.4m 13s NNW | 5kn WSW ↘ g10 | 0.1 ↓ |
| 16:00 | 0.4 | 0.6m 7s WNW+0.4m 13s NNW | 4kn W ↘ g10 | 0.0 ↓ |
| 17:00 | 0.4 | 0.6m 7s WNW+0.5m 12s NNW | 4kn WSW ↘ | 0.1 ↑ |
| 18:00 | 1.1 | 0.6m 7s WNW+0.5m 12s NNW | 3kn WSW ↘ | 0.2 ↑ |
| 19:00 | 1.7 | 0.6m 8s WNW+0.6m 11s NNW | 3kn WSW ↘ | 0.4 ↑ |
| 20:00 | 1.8 | 0.7m 9–14s NW+0.6m 10s NW | 3kn SSW → | 0.7 ↑ |
| 21:00 | 1.1 | 0.7m 10–14s NW+0.6m 8s NW | 2kn SSW → | 0.9 ↑ |
Spot guide
- Best swell
- WSW–NNW
- Best wind
- ESE (offshore)
- Best tide
- Mid
- First–last light
- 06:43–20:30
Rugged, less-developed beach past Lagoa de Albufeira where the coast turns toward Sesimbra; picks up plenty of SW-W swell and stays relatively uncrowded outside peak summer. Facing and swell window corrected 2026-08-29: facing 235 -> 283, window 200-280 -> 248-328. Three independent lines of evidence. (1) Sampling the OSM shore normal across a 13x13 grid around the spot gives a consensus of 283 with a spread of only 2 degrees — the tightest in the whole coast audit, as expected on a long straight beach. (2) Satellite imagery shows the old 235 pointing obliquely ALONG the sand rather than out of it, while 283 is perpendicular to both the shoreline and the incoming swell lines. (3) The old window made this one of only THREE west-facing spots out of 77 shadowed from a NW 310 groundswell (exposure 0.15), and the other two have real shadowing features — salir-do-porto is a lagoon mouth and baleal-sul sits behind the Baleal promontory. Meco is open coast with nothing in the way, and its neighbours on the same stretch are all fully open at 310: Guincho 255-340, Santa Cruz 250-320, Espinho 240-320. The new window matches that family. Consequence, stated because it is large: on a classic NW groundswell L3 goes 1.5 -> 7.5, and L1 goes 4.5 -> 0.0 because at full exposure the wave is correctly too big for a beginner.
Hazards rip currents · remote/unpatrolled sections · strong current near the rocks at the south end
Best time of year
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