Hayling Island has two launch points: this one run by CBK (you need a day pass or membership from CBK) near the Inn on the Beach, and the other a Public Beach launch from the Chichester Beach car park, generally 500–800 m downwind of here. CBK is the longest-running kitesurf school in the UK (since 1999), with a structured environment and rescue cover. Outstanding flat-water Solent spot: broad E-through-W range, best at low to mid water (avoid ~1 hour either side of HW). The sandbar off this CBK launch beach forms a flat lagoon >1 km out around 4 hours either side of low tide, with more open-sea texture beyond. (Forecast and tides are shared with the rest of Hayling Island.)
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: 12 September 2026 18:59 BST Forecast data: 12 September 2026 17:17 BST Tide data: 12 September 2026 18:58 BST
📏 Tide heights — next 7 days(chart datum at Chichester Harbour (Entrance))
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Hayling West/CBK faces ~SSW, same island as Hayling (shares the Windguru series). E-through-W working; 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 Hayling Island — West Beach (CBK)Lighter option: Sat 12 Sep ~13 kt — marginal — larger kites (14 m+). AROME and UKV 2km agree (within ~1 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.
Sat 12 Sep
LW 05:55 0.5mHW 13:05 5.0mLW 18:15 0.7m
Marginal — ~13 kt, big kites only. Peak ~13 kt WSW in the tide window. marginal — big kites (15 m+)/foils — most riders won't get planing; 15 m+/foil specialists only. ★ Gets dark at 19:16 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Best window detail — 15:15–19:27 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~15 kt in the low-tide window. Late-evening session — fine in summer, but a late drive home from London.
Marginal — ~11 kt, big kites only. Peak ~11 kt WSW in the tide window. marginal — big kites (15 m+)/foils — most riders won't get planing; 15 m+/foil specialists only.
Best window detail — 15:55–19:25 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~10 kt in the low-tide window. Late-evening session — fine in summer, but a late drive home from London.
Marginal — ~11 kt, big kites only. Peak ~11 kt WNW in the tide window. marginal — big kites (15 m+)/foils — most riders won't get planing; 15 m+/foil specialists only. ★ Gets dark at 19:10 — window trimmed to daylight (18:00–19:10 BST); the wind carries on past sunset if you are happy riding into dusk.
Best window detail — 17:05–19:21 BST (AROME-FR 1.3km hourly)
Hourly AROME-FR 1.3km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~12 kt in the low-tide window. Late-evening session — fine in summer, but a late drive home from London.
Marginal — ~12 kt, big kites only. Peak ~12 kt SW in the tide window. marginal — big kites (15 m+)/foils — most riders won't get planing; 15 m+/foil specialists only. ★ Gets dark at 19:04 — 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.
