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Vila Chã

Póvoa de Varzim / Vila do Conde · beach

Now0.2/5

The swell is missing this beach

0.5m @ 9–14s NW · 1kW/m · +0.4m @ 12s NWsecondary swell · 3kn W onshore

Tide2.5m falling· low in 4h47
🌊 19.0°Cwater21°CairWear:3/2 fullsuitSeaSlightUV5 ModerateSurfaceCleanConsistencyFairly consistent(58)
TideLow 16:20 1.2mHigh 22:46 2.5mLow 04:58 1.3mHigh 11:26 2.7mOfficial tide predictions (WorldTides).

8-day outlook · Intermediate

Swell height · metres
1.70.80SatSunMonTueWedThuFriSatm
secondary swell
Wind · knots
18.99.50SatSunMonTueWedThuFriSatkn

Hour by hour

TimeScoreSwellWindTide
07:001.30.8m 6–14s NW+0.2m 11s NW4kn N 0.6 ↑
08:000.40.7m 7–14s NW+0.2m 11s NW3kn NNW 0.8 ↑
09:000.30.6m 8–14s NW+0.3m 11s NW3kn NW 1.0 ↑
10:000.20.5m 8–14s NW+0.3m 12s NW3kn NW 1.0 ↓
11:000.20.5m 9–14s NW+0.4m 12s NW3kn W 0.9 ↓
12:000.30.5m 9–14s NW+0.4m 12s NW4kn SW 0.7 ↓
13:000.70.5m 10–14s NW+0.4m 12s NW4kn WSW 0.5 ↓
14:001.10.6m 10–14s NW+0.4m 12s NW1kn SSW 0.3 ↓
15:001.30.7m 10–14s NW+0.5m 11s NW1kn ESE 0.1 ↓
16:001.20.8m 10–14s NW+0.5m 10s NW5kn ENE g120.0 ↓
17:001.70.9m 9–14s NW+0.4m 10s WNW5kn WSW g110.0 ↑
18:002.61.0m 9–12s NW+0.3m 10s WSW3kn SW 0.2 ↑
19:002.11.1m 9–12s NW+0.2m 10s SW6kn NW g120.4 ↑
20:002.21.2m 9–12s NW+0.2m 10s SW5kn NW g130.6 ↑
21:000.61.2m 9–12s NW+0.2m 10s SW6kn NNE g100.8 ↑

Spot guide

Best swell
WSWNW
Best wind
E (offshore)
Best tide
Low–mid
First–last light
06:3820:32

Added from the coast-coverage audit. Facing measured from the OSM coastline; physical profile inherited from Vila do Conde (7090 m away). Promoted from provisional after the coast audit corroborated it against surf-forecast; hazards and type recorded from that audit. Beginner gates (L1/L2) are held at 0.5 IN THE DATA rather than inherited: promotion lifts the provisional safety cap, and for this spot the inherited gate would have roughly doubled its level-1 score on a number copied from a neighbour that nobody measured here. The coast audit established that this is a real, surfed, road-accessible beach and recorded its hazards; it did not assess beginner suitability, which is a different claim. Raise these once someone has actually looked.

Hazards rocks around the small sandy pocket · fishing boats launching off the sand · stream mouth · no lifeguard off-season

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