Velmonda

El Médano

Playa Sur · El Cabezo

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“Go”: a rideable window long enough to count. “Marginal”: it might work, not for long enough to promise. “No wind”: nothing rideable today. “Not yet”: too far out, or the models still disagree. Drawn as an outline, never a colour. The small line underneath says where the number comes from: which models, whether they are corrected against wind measured at this spot, and whether what you see was measured or forecast.

The wind reaches 11 kn, but not for long enough. It might work.

Model ensemble · tuned on 510 measured sessions here · forecast, not measured what that means

Same call as last night

10kn 17:00–19:00

NE · Cross-shore 106°

Hour by hour
Each bar is one hour's forecast, coloured by your range: solid inside it, amber just short or gusty, muted outside. On a day nothing reaches your range, nothing takes a colour: there is data, and it is honestly short. Gusty hours are demoted: when the jump between mean and gust is big, an in-range hour shows amber. Here the spread, not the average, decides the day.

08:0014:0020:00

Peak 11 kn at 15:00.

Water
25°
Air
21°
Suit
Shorty or lycra
Morning
22°
Midday
25°
Afternoon
26°
Evening
24°Rain
Falling · next low 11:00 · wave 0.7 m · cross-shore 106°

Wind angle

Cross-shore

106°

Tide
The curve is today's water level; the marker is now. The times are the next high and low water. Tide gets a card here because it genuinely changes the session at this spot; where it doesn't, no card is shown.

Falling · 0.1 m · range 0.7 m

Next low
11:00-0.5 m
Next high
18:000.1 m

A real Atlantic tide. At high water El Cabezo's beach almost disappears and the rocks sit right under the entry; at low water there is sand to rig on all around the bay.

Wave

Wave
0.7 m
Period
8 s
From
NNE

Local knowledge

El Cabezo is for solid levels: a partly rocky entry, rocks downwind, and at high tide almost no sand left. Gear failure there ends on the stones; if in doubt, ride the bay.

The shore is permanently buoyed into sectors: bathing, kite, windsurf and surf/bodyboard…

The shore is permanently buoyed into sectors: bathing, kite, windsurf and surf/bodyboard, with signs on the beach and each sector closed to every other use. Kiting lives in its zone by La Jaquita; respecting the buoys is what lets everything coexist on a few hundred metres of coast.

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How good is this forecast±3.7 kn

Tuned on 510 measured sessions at this spot, average error 3.7 kn. The correction refits itself nightly. Averaged over every scored hour here, calm ones included. The per-wind rows on the full record are the numbers to plan a session on.

Full track record

Measured, never assumed: every forecast is frozen when published and scored against wind measured at this spot. The figure is the average error over recent measured sessions here, and no other spot's number is ever borrowed.

About this forecastModel ensemble · tuned on 510 measured sessions here · forecast, not measured

No openly available high-resolution weather model covers this spot (some commercial sites run private local models). The forecast runs on continental and global models, which resolve the coastline more coarsely; expect a wider margin than at a spot with a local model.

No live wind sensor here yet. The number above is forecast, not measured.