Foam

Worth paddling out early: the 9-second NW swell is long enough to hold shape through the sheltered cove and wedge off the cliffs into hollow, peaky lines, and the offshore north wind is cleaning faces and holding them up. The swell angle is marginal, it's not wrapping in ideally, but combined with 17°C water and the cape blocking the wind, this is still the best option in Sagres right now. Size looks thigh to waist at the peaks, with most of the energy genuine groundswell rather than chop.

Conditions fade through the afternoon as wind picks up to 26 kph from the north-northwest and waves drop to knee to thigh by 3 pm, so the window is genuinely closing rather than shifting.

Tomorrow stays poor to fair across the day with no standout hours, peaks around ankle to waist, and little reason to plan around it. Models often miss the drift and timing of weak Atlantic flow, so a glance at the dawn patrol webcam will tell you more than the forecast can.