Large north-east-facing sandy beach with a huge grass promenade behind it — excellent for rigging — and one of the few Essex spots that works in a northeasterly. When the wind has been up for a day or two a small shore break forms. Don’t launch within 2 hours of high water: at HW the sea comes right up to the concrete sea wall in the middle of the bay; the ends of the bay stay more usable. Groynes run the length of the bay — at low tide they’re well clear of the water; at mid-to-high tide know where they are before launching. Not heavily crowded except on a good NE day (10–20 kites when it lights up). Beginners OK at low tide if they set up upwind of the wall. Schools nearby: Push Kiting (Clacton / Point Clear, ~15 min), Zenith Kiting (Clacton). Food options in town (~10 min walk): Nick’s Fish Bar (Connaught Ave) and The Lock & Barrel pub.
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 Walton-On-The-Naze)
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Faces ESE into the North Sea (NE–SW coast). Onshore is the E–SE quadrant, but the working set is deliberately narrow (NE–ENE) — groynes and shallow patches make the southerly onshore directions unreliable here; offshore is W–NW (off the land). HARD NO 2.5 h either side of HW (groynes, no beach).
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at Frinton-on-SeaNo kiteable window shows at Frinton-on-Sea in the next 7 days — wrong direction or too light throughout. Models diverge on Sunday: UKV 21 kt vs AROME 28 kt — lower confidence; lead model here is UKV 2km, check both before driving.
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.
Not kiteable today — wind from W. Peak 20 kt from W is cross-offshore (side-off) at Frinton-on-Sea. Working directions here: NE / NNE / ENE. W is 2.5° off offshore here — a borderline call on a bearing we estimate, so treat it as the more cautious of the two.
Not kiteable today — the cross-on wind lands on the wrong tide. Peak 21 kt from SSW is not a working direction at Frinton-on-Sea. Working directions here: NE / NNE / ENE. There WAS cross-on (side-on) wind here — ~20 kt S around 13:00–14:00 BST — but it lands on high water — no usable beach / sea wall; the rideable window is 14:25–20:25 BST, where the wind is SSW.
Confidence: the ensemble disagrees — 93% chance of 12 kt+ despite the forecast — worth watching · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
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.
