Surf report, not just swell
Live surf reports for Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales. Swell after wrap, wind, tide, and Go/Wait ratings — built for beaches people actually surf.
What it does
Forecast infrastructure for one coastline
Barrel Monkey is the product we built when global tools stepped back from the UK Atlantic run — a cron-fed desk, regional map, and honest ratings per spot.
Live map
31 South West breaks on one map, coloured by how good the current hour looks — not a global dashboard shrunk to fit.
48-hour desk
Swell, wind, and tide scores on a grid you can scan in seconds. Snapshots refresh on a cron, not when someone opens a page.
Spot pages
Tide clocks, next windows, and local Go/Wait ratings per beach — height is swell after wrap, not raw model numbers.
Built for this coast
Devon, Cornwall, and South Wales only. The product voice and scoring match how people actually surf the Atlantic run.
FAQ
Common questions
- Where does the forecast data come from?
- Swell, wind, and weather come from Open-Meteo on a three-hour cron. Tide clocks come from WorldTides when needed. Maps use Mapbox. Barrel Monkey scores each beach for wrap, wind against aspect, and tide windows — it does not invent swell.
- Is Barrel Monkey live today?
- Yes. The forecast runs at barrelmonkey.surf. This page is LimitBreak’s product overview; the app itself is where you read the desk and spot pages.
- Who built Barrel Monkey?
- LimitBreak designed and built Barrel Monkey as a regional forecast product — product design, data pipelines, and the Next.js platform. The codebase lives alongside our other sport and venue work.
Read the desk live
Open Barrel Monkey for today's map and spot pages, or talk to LimitBreak if you're building a regional product with the same level of craft.