Big sandy bay east of Margate with an expansive tidal pool. Works in a broad N / NE / E / SE arc — a good Thanet alternative to Minnis when the wind backs east. Shallow and flat at low tide, popular with novices. Kite Pirates run sessions here.
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 Margate)
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Walpole Bay, Margate, faces ~NE. Onshore N-through-SE arc; SW–W is offshore over the town.
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at Walpole BayNo kiteable window shows at Walpole Bay in the next 7 days — wrong direction or too light throughout. AROME and UKV 2km agree (within ~5 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.
Not kiteable today — wind from W. Peak 21 kt from W is cross-offshore (side-off) at Walpole Bay. Working directions here: NNE / NE / ENE / E / ESE / SE.
Not kiteable today — wind from SSW. Peak 19 kt from SSW is cross-offshore (side-off) at Walpole Bay. Working directions here: NNE / NE / ENE / E / ESE / SE. SSW sits exactly on the line with offshore here — a borderline call on a bearing we estimate, so treat it as the more cautious of the two.
Not kiteable today — wind from WSW. Peak 13 kt from WSW is cross-offshore (side-off) at Walpole Bay. Working directions here: NNE / NE / ENE / E / ESE / SE. WSW sits exactly on the line with offshore here — a borderline call on a bearing we estimate, so treat it as the more cautious of the two.
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.
