Surf report for Peñarrubia
About surfing at Peñarrubia when it works, how to read the report and common questions
How Peñarrubia works
Una playa de roca al pie del acantilado, al este de Gijón. Tiene una izquierda larga y noble, ideal para aprender y para longboard, y una derecha bastante más radical. Es exigente con la marea — solo funciona de media hacia abajo — y agradece mucho los períodos largos.
- Type of wave
- Fondo de roca al pie del acantilado, con izquierda y derecha
- Workable size
- 0,8–1,5 m en la escala de San Lorenzo
- Swell that works
- WNW–NNW (287°–346°)
- Period
- Mínimo 9 s; el buen baño está entre 11 y 14 s
- Ideal wind
- De E a SW (102°–225°); aguanta los sures fuertes
- Best tide
- Solo de media hacia abajo; en pleamar no funciona
- Level
- La izquierda es de las más fáciles para aprender y para longboard; la derecha pide algo más
Full surf guide to Peñarrubia →
How to read this report
- Wave height. It is the real height at the beach, not the open-sea swell: each beach has its own factor, because the same swell does not break the same at Peñarrubia as at the beach next door.
- Period. The seconds between two waves. It is the most underrated number: at the same size, a long period brings waves with power and shape, a short one brings them messy.
- Wind. Always in knots. What matters is not the strength but the direction: blowing from land to sea (offshore) it grooms the wave, from sea to land it messes it up.
- Tide. In metres. Every beach has its good window, and outside it the same day can go from surfable to useless in two hours.
- AI score. A score from 0 to 5 given by a model trained on real ratings of sessions at this very beach — not a generic formula. When the day is bad it says so, which is the point.
Frequently asked questions about surfing at Peñarrubia
What is the best tide to surf at Peñarrubia?
Solo de media hacia abajo; en pleamar no funciona. The report above gives the tide height hour by hour for the next 8 days, so you can line your session up with the good window.
Which wind works at Peñarrubia?
Its offshore wind comes from De E a SW (102°–225°); aguanta los sures fuertes. Every beach on this coast faces a different way, so the wind that ruins one can be exactly the good one somewhere else: if it does not help here, check the other beaches.
Is Peñarrubia good for beginners?
La izquierda es de las más fáciles para aprender y para longboard; la derecha pide algo más.
Where does this data come from?
The conditions (waves, wind, period, tide and water temperature) come from Open-Meteo and are updated every hour. The quality score is computed by a model specific to Peñarrubia, trained on ratings of real sessions at this beach.