Gurteen Beach

Co. Galway · faces SE · partly sheltered ·

Directions

white sandcar park

Onshore wind, but the bay is partly sheltered, small waves.

Scores are estimates from forecasts, not a safety rating. Before you go in

Tides (model): Low 01:00 · High 07:00 · Low 13:00 · High 20:00

Sunrise 08:03 · Sunset 16:44 · UV 0 (low)

Water quality

This beach isn't an officially monitored bathing water, so there's no official water quality rating.

Hour by hour · Overall · Today

Wind in

Time	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
Score	dark	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.3	1.7	1.6	1.5	dark	dark	dark	dark	dark
Wind kn	16	16	16	16	16	14	15	16	16	14	16	16	13	16	18	13
Direction	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	S	SE	S	S	S
Waves at beach m	0.6	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7
Swell offshore m · s	1.1 6s	1.2 6s	1.3 6s	1.4 6s	1.5 6s	1.5 6s	1.6 6s	1.7 6s	1.8 7s	1.9 7s	2.0 7s	2.0 7s	2.0 7s	2.0 7s	1.9 7s	1.8 8s
Tide
Water °C	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3	11.3
Air °C	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	11	10	11	10	10	11	11	11
Rain chance %	24	21	17	20	33	51	67	79	90	96	97	94	88	79	68	57
Rain mm	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0.2	1.1	1.0	2.0	1.1	2.6	0	0.2	0.1
Cloud %	100	100	97	100	93	95	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100

Highlighted columns: the best 3-hour window; grey columns are before sunrise or after sunset. Tides come from a global model and can be off by up to an hour: check local tide tables before swimming.