The Breakwater-St Ives Surf Forecast

/ Cornwall (North) (60 surf breaks) /

UK (473 surf breaks) / Lat Long: (50.22° N 5.48° W)

Surf Forecasts:

The Breakwater-St Ives surfForecast / Cornwall (North) / UK

48hr Weather and Surf, issued 12 am Thursday 16 Oct 2025 BST

Forecast update in hr min s Forecast update imminent

The Breakwater-St Ives surf forecast is for near shore open water. Breaking waves will often be smaller at less exposed spots.

Today's The Breakwater-St Ives sea temperature is 15.1° C
(Which is slightly warmer than usual)

How big are the waves at The Breakwater-St Ives today?

The current surf forecast for The Breakwater-St Ives at 2AM is: 0.8m 13s primary swell from a West direction and 0.5m 10s secondary swell from a West direction, 0.3m 4s secondary swell from a Northeast direction (forecast issued at 12:00am October 16). The wind direction is predicted to be cross-shore.

Time (BST) & Date	Wave Height	Wave Period
Morning (16 Oct)	2.5ft (0.8m)	12s
Afternoon (16 Oct)	2ft (0.6m)	11s
Evening (16 Oct)	1.5ft (0.4m)	10s

Table - waves today at The Breakwater-St Ives. (Swell directed towards the surf break)

Updates in hr min s Forecast update imminent

12 Days Hourly

Print Table

		Thursday 16								Friday 17								Saturday 18
	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM	10 PM	1 AM	4 AM	7 AM	10 AM	1 PM	4 PM	7 PM
Rating (10 max)	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Swell Height Map See all maps
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	W	WSW	WSW	WSW	WSW	SW	W	WSW	WSW	WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	13	13	12	12	12	11	11	10	10	10	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	8	12	10	10	9
Wave Graph (?)
kJ (?)	199	219	273	233	178	129	84	56	32	30	17	17	17	9	7	16	15	15	13	17	24	58	102	118
Wind (km/h)	E	ENE	ENE	ENE	E	E	E	E	E	E	ESE	ESE	ESE	SE	ESE	ESE	ESE	ESE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE	SE
Wind State (?) onshore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore offshore glassy	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)			1:50AM 4.25				2:22PM 4.59				3:02AM 4.53				3:22PM 4.90				3:51AM 4.87					4:07PM 5.21
Low Tide / height (m)	7:45PM 1.70				8:17AM 1.78				9:01PM 1.45				9:23AM 1.47				9:54PM 1.14					10:11AM 1.15

		Thursday 16								Friday 17								Saturday 18
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	7:43	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:46	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:47	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:29	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:27	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:24	-

Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	12	12	12	13	12	14	14	14	13	12	13	13	14	15	14	13	14	14	14	14	14	14	14	14
Feels °C (?)	9	9	9	10	8	10	10	11	9	8	10	10	10	10	9	9	9	8	9	8	8	8	8	8

Map Icons:
Break
Live Wave Height (m)
Live Wind Speed (km/h)
Surf Rating (10 Max)
Ocean Swells (m)
Wind Speed (km/h)

Recent Eyeball Surf Reports for Cornwall (North)

Wind Update Still cross-shore at The Breakwater-St Ives (light winds from the ENE at Culdrose (navy base) 22 km from The Breakwater-St Ives). 0.6m 13s groundswell from the WNW with a 0.6m 10s swell from the W and a 0.6m 4s local chop from the NE. 3 swells combining to make bigger set waves.
2 hours 18 minutes ago The Breakwater-St Ives

Expand

View all

22 km away, 2 h 18 min ago

19 km/h

ENE

0.0

15.1

Air / Water (°C)

Please reload the page to see if there are any updates.

FREE! Surf-Forecast.com widget for your website

The surf report / weather widget below is available to embed on third party websites free of charge and provides a summary of our The Breakwater-St Ives surf forecast. Simply grab the html code snippet that we provide and paste it into your own site. You can choose your preferred language and metric/imperial units for the surf forecast feed to suit users of your site. Click here to get the code.