Wide SW-facing shingle-to-sand beach near West Wittering. One of the most popular south-coast learner spots with steady SW winds funnelling into the bay. Flat water in summer, waves and bigger conditions autumn onwards. Works the same wind band as East Wittering but can be preferred when East Witt is wind-shadowed. Home base of Get Kiteboarding.
Public-model blend: Met Office UKV 2km (direct), Met Office Global 10km (direct), AROME-FR, IFS-HRES, ICON, GFS (via Open-Meteo) and MET Norway, averaged across every model that covers each hour, out to day 7; temperature from the Met Office feeds
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Page rebuilt: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT Forecast data: 25 October 2026 15:30 GMT Tide data: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT
📏 Tide heights — next 7 days(chart datum at Selsey Bill)
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Bracklesham Bay faces ~SSW, the same coast as East Wittering ~1 mile NE (working sets reconciled). SW is best; NE–N is offshore.
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at Bracklesham BayBest of the week: Mon 26 Oct, ~22 kt around 12:00–15:00 BST (GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot) — very gusty (+13 kt), hard work, good kiters only. Lighter option: Tue 27 Oct ~24 kt — GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot. AROME and UKV 2km agree (within ~3 kt) over the next 60 h — confidence good (lead model here: UKV 2km).
Windguru forecast
7-day forecast
Wind scale:<1010–1112–1314–1516–1920–2930+ kt ⚠
Public-model blend, for the full 7 days: The Met Office UKV 2km and Global 10km runs are read directly from the Met Office open-data feeds; AROME-FR 1.3km, IFS-HRES 9km, ICON and GFS come via Open-Meteo, plus MET Norway. Direction is a circular mean; gusts average only the models that publish an hourly-maximum gust. These numbers are raw model output with no coastal correction, so in the same weather they can read a little lighter than a coastally-corrected forecast — treat them as a floor rather than a ceiling. Temperature is from the Met Office runs (interpolated between 3-hourly steps on later days). No sea-state data is available. Tides from UKHO Admiralty (BST, 7-day window). The Windguru widget above is the unmodified Windguru forecast and is a useful cross-check.
Runs out of daylight — ~20 kt W. Working direction (W) with ~20 kt for 3 h inside the tide window (17:00–19:10 BST around the low tide). GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot. W grades cross-shore here but is 2.5° off cross-onshore (side-on) — effectively the better of the two. ★ Gets dark at 17:53 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Confidence: looking solid — 75% chance of 12 kt+ in the window · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 13:09–16:53 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~24 kt in the low-tide window.
Good session — ~21 kt SW in the green window (14:00–17:51 BST). Working direction (SW) with ~21 kt for 6 h inside the tide window (13:45–19:45 BST around the low tide). GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot. SW grades cross-onshore (side-on) here but is 2.5° off onshore — effectively the better of the two. There is also a rideable window around the 04:30 low water — evening sessions are the usual London pick. ★ Gets dark at 17:51 — window trimmed to daylight (14:00–17:51 BST); the wind carries on past sunset if you are happy riding into dusk.
Confidence: looking solid — 75% chance of 15 kt+ in the window; 42% it reaches the 9–12 m sweet spot · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 13:47–16:51 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~22 kt in the low-tide window.
Runs out of daylight — ~25 kt SSW. Working direction (SSW) with ~25 kt for 4 h inside the tide window (05:00–08:05 BST around the low tide). nuking — small kites (≤7 m), take care. Early-bird window (low water before 08:30) — fine if you can get there, but on the early side for most. ★ Gets dark at 17:49 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Pick a past day to compare three things: the forecast we published (frozen before each hour, never revised afterwards), the wind that actually happened (Open-Meteo reanalysis, hours 05:00–21:00 UK), and what the live weather stations near the spot actually recorded (amber, from 2 Aug 2026). You can go right up to today — today shows the forecast and the live stations; the reanalysis for today lands tomorrow morning.
Important: Forecasts are model-derived and may change. Always verify on Windguru and check local tide tables before you go. LKSA accepts no liability for decisions made based on this forecast.
