One of the finest flat-water spots in south-east England — very shallow, shelving, often butter-flat. Exceptional for learning, freeride, freestyle, and foiling. The only beach on the South Coast that works in a north-easterly. Low tide is the target; competent riders can use most of the tide cycle but beginners should avoid ~90 min either side of HW. School: Infinity Sport Kitesurfing.
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
Last updated
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 & beach state
🚦 Tide zones (daylight, BST):Amber = high tide — you can get out but it's not optimum (wing/foil territory). Green starts the moment the tide leaves the shingle: kite the tide down, through low and back up. Grey = early-morning session. Unusual spot — the tide works the opposite way round to most: green runs right through LOW water.
Sun 25:08:05–12:20 high tide (wing/foil)·12:20–17:55 KITE Mon 26:08:10–08:35 early session·08:35–13:05 high tide (wing/foil)·13:05–17:50 KITE Tue 27:08:10–09:10 early session·09:10–13:50 high tide (wing/foil)·13:50–17:50 KITE Wed 28:08:10–09:50 early session·09:50–14:30 high tide (wing/foil)·14:30–17:50 KITE
🏖️ Beach access:Water at the bottom of the shingle bank. BELOW this is the kite window (unusual spot — opposite of most): the water leaves the shingle onto the flats and you can kite the tide down, right through low and back up, until it returns to the shingle. Above it the water is up on the beach — the high-tide amber period, wing/foil territory rather than prime kiting. Reached when the tide falls below ≈5.97 m (chart datum at Dungeness) · medium confidence.
Heights vs the measured beach/groyne line ≈5.97 m: green = below (kite window) · amber = at/above (not optimum)
🧭 Wind directions
Greatstone/Littlestone, Dungeness, faces ~ESE/SE. Wide N-through-S onshore arc; N is side-off (Infinity Sport cover). SW–W is offshore over the shingle/Marsh. (Bathing water 'Littlestone' is classified Poor — see water_quality.)
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at Greatstone (Lade)Lighter option: Tue 27 Oct ~25 kt — nuking — small kites (≤7 m), take care. Models diverge on Tuesday: UKV 21 kt vs AROME 15 kt — lower confidence; lead model here is AROME (this spot sits close to France — locals rate it), 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 17 kt from W is cross-offshore (side-off) at Greatstone (Lade). Working directions here: N / NNE / NE / ENE / E / ESE ….
Brief peak — under the 2-hour session rule. ~23 kt SSW in the tide window but the ≥15 kt stretch lasts under 2 hours — not a full session for a long drive; locals already nearby might grab it. ★ Gets dark at 17:51 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Confidence: looking solid — over 95% chance of 12 kt+ in the window · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 13:39–16:43 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 5 h inside the tide window (05:00–10:25 BST around the low tide). GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot. 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.
Best window detail — 06:40–10:26 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. Early-bird session — on the water near sunrise; allow ~2 h for the drive.
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.
