Aberavon Beach
Neath Port Talbot, Wales, United Kingdom
Today at a glance
Calmest: 4 pm to sunset, sunset 6:05 pm1.6
19 km/h12 mph wind, Poor
0.7
35 km/h22 mph wind, Poor
0.9
36 km/h23 mph wind, Poor
0.8
40 km/h25 mph wind, Poor
0.7
41 km/h26 mph wind, Poor
0.7
37 km/h23 mph wind, Poor
0.7
41 km/h25 mph wind, Poor
0.8
39 km/h24 mph wind, Poor
1.0
38 km/h23 mph wind, Poor
1.6
37 km/h23 mph wind, Poor
2.8
32 km/h20 mph wind, Poor
This page puts what matters first for today's conditions.
Where to stay near the beach
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Forecast, hour by hour
Beach score for daylight hours, today and tomorrow. Wind in km/hmph underneath.
- Air
- 12°C53°F
- Water
- 15°C59°F
- Wind
- 127 km/hmph NNE
- Gusts
- 2113 km/hmph
- Waves
- 1.2 m4 ft
- UV
- 0 low
- Tide
- falling
- Rain
- 85%
- Sunset
- 6:05 pm
Tide, next 24 hours
- Low 11 am, -3.0 m10 ft
- High 5 pm, 3.0 m10 ft
- Low 11 pm, -3.9 m13 ft
Tide is modeled, not measured. Rip current and water quality data are not available for this beach yet.
The days ahead
Best score each day, with the stretch to aim for.
- Sun2.3 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 32 km/h20 mph, rain 33%
- Mon1.9 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 32 km/h20 mph, rain 99%
- Tue1.7 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 30 km/h19 mph, rain 75%
- Wed4.9 FairNo standout stretchWind up to 19 km/h12 mph, rain 26%
- Thu4.2 FairNo standout stretchWind up to 23 km/h14 mph, rain 9%
Beach info
Facilities and the beaches next door.
About Aberavon Beach
Aberavon Beach is a sandy beach located in Port Talbot, Wales. It is 1.2 miles long and has an area of 66,323 square meters. The nearest town is Port Talbot, 1.7 miles away, and there are 5 food options within 0.62 miles.
Aberavon Beach (Welsh: Traeth Aberafan), also known as Aberavon Sands, is a three-mile (5 km) stretch of sandy beach on the north-eastern edge of Swansea Bay in Port Talbot, Wales. With its high breaker waves, it is popular with surfers. Aberavon Beach was awarded Blue Flag status in December 2007 and features in the Good Beach Guide published by the Marine Conservation Society.
A traditional "bucket and spade" resort for the South Wales Valleys during the 1940s, '50s and '60s, Aberavon Beach was once an area of sand dunes known as Aberavon Burrows. Changing economic and social conditions led to the decline of the resort, but in 1998 the local authority published a strategy to improve the physical environment of the area and increase tourism. New facilities completed since then have included an amphitheatre, piazza and skateboard park, while a six-screen Reel Cinema opened next to the Afan Lido as part of a development called "Hollywood Park".
Source: Aberavon Beach on Wikipedia (authors). Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0; text may have been shortened. Retrieved Oct 19, 2026. Data sources
Facilities
- Parking2 within 500 m0.3 miNearest 140 m450 ft. Fee not listed
- Food and drink5 within 1 km0.6 miNearest 80 m270 ft
- Playground70 m240 ft away
- Boat ramp420 m0.3 mi away
- SurfaceSand
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- 710 m0.4 miFairways
- Nearest town
- 2.7 km1.7 miPort Talbot (town)
- Nearest airport
- 17 km11 miSwansea Airport (SWS)
Nearby places
- FrancosFish and chips80 m270 ft
- Remo'sFood and drink300 m990 ft
- TapolisFood and drink730 m0.5 mi
- The FrontFood and drink800 m0.5 mi
- Cinnamon KitchenIndian860 m0.5 mi
Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Check posted signs; details change. Data sources
Nearby beaches
- Margam Sands6.3 km3.9 mi south-east away2.4 Poor later
- Morfa Beach7.7 km4.8 mi south-east away2.4 Poor later
- ABCC Meeting Point8.2 km5.1 mi west away3.4 Poor later
- Sker Beach9.0 km5.6 mi south-east away2.4 Poor later
- Kenfig Sands9.3 km5.8 mi south-east away2.4 Poor later