Continent |
Europe |
Country |
Wales (UK) |
Next Big City |
Swansea |
Next Town |
Port Talbot |
Type: |
Ocean |
Rider Ability: |
Beginner, Intermediate, Expert |
Features: |
Rescue, Toilet, Food, Parking |
Type: |
Chop, Small wave |
Hazards: |
No information |
Quality: |
Dirty |
Best Tide: |
Low tide, Coming tide, Falling tide |
Not very good quality due to estuary silt and industrial docks nearby! Water conditions usually choppy and small surf. Tides.
Type: |
Sand |
Size: |
Tidal |
Hazards: |
Rocks, Concrete |
Beach Users: |
June, July, August |
Big sandy beach approx. 3 miles long. Very popular kitesurf beach in South Wales attracting people from all over South West Wales and England. Sand is hard at mid to low tide and popular with buggy and ATB kiters. Please use the far West end of the beach past the concrete promenade.
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Spring:
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Normal |
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Summer:
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Shorts, Shorty, Normal |
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Fall:
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Normal |
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Winter:
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Thick |
Wetsuit needed almost all year-round. Only in high summer can be shorts and lycra.
Best Months: |
No information |
Wind Type: |
Frontal |
Best Direction: |
SE, SW, WSW, W, WNW, NW |
Main Direction: |
No information |
Normally always wind. Can be any strength, depending on depressions.
Transport |
Car |
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Access
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Short walk |
Follow M4 till exit 41, then signs for Port Talbot and Aberavon. You can park along the promenade for free.
Rules |
Zones |
Keep to west end of beach where marked on the sea wall. There is a local kitesurf club which has fought to keep access. There is a yellow flag with a kite drawing showing the start of the kite area. Kite on the West side of this flag.
