Brandy Cove
Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom
Today at a glance
Calmest: 4 pm to sunset, sunset 6:06 pm0.9
40 km/h25 mph wind, Poor
0.7
38 km/h23 mph wind, Poor
0.7
42 km/h26 mph wind, Poor
0.7
43 km/h27 mph wind, Poor
0.7
42 km/h26 mph wind, Poor
0.7
42 km/h26 mph wind, Poor
0.8
43 km/h27 mph wind, Poor
1.1
44 km/h27 mph wind, Poor
1.5
39 km/h24 mph wind, Poor
1.6
38 km/h24 mph wind, Poor
3.2
35 km/h22 mph wind, Poor
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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
- 16°C61°F
- Wind
- 159 km/hmph N
- Gusts
- 2415 km/hmph
- Waves
- 2.1 m7 ft
- UV
- 0 low
- Tide
- falling
- Rain
- 87%
- Sunset
- 6:06 pm
Tide, next 24 hours
- Low 11 am, -2.9 m10 ft
- High 5 pm, 2.8 m9 ft
- Low 11 pm, -3.7 m12 ft
- High 5 am, 2.9 m9 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.
- Sun2.7 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 38 km/h23 mph, rain 27%
- Mon2.0 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 36 km/h23 mph, rain 90%
- Tue2.1 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 35 km/h22 mph, rain 72%
- Wed4.7 FairNo standout stretchWind up to 23 km/h14 mph, rain 18%
- Thu3.9 PoorNo standout stretchWind up to 29 km/h18 mph, rain 9%
Beach info
Facilities and the beaches next door.
About Brandy Cove
Brandy Cove is a beach and cove in Swansea, Wales, UK. It has an area of 610 square meters and is 35 meters long. The nearest town is Bishopston, located 0.88 miles away, and there are three food options within 0.62 miles.
Brandy Cove (Welsh: Bae gîl) is a very small beach in the Gower Peninsula, south Wales, that is much less accessible than Caswell Bay immediately to the east. It is set at the end of a valley from Bishopston village. It is reachable by footpath from Bishopston or from Caswell Bay over some steep cliffs. The bay gets its name from stories of smugglers using the bay to unload their illegal tobacco and alcohol goods during the eighteenth century.
The sandy stretches of the beach are only exposed at low tide. It is a Pleistocene raised beach where the surrounding geography shows evidence that the sea level was once thirty feet higher than it is today.
Source: Brandy Cove on Wikipedia (authors). Text available under CC BY-SA 4.0; text may have been shortened. Retrieved Oct 19, 2026. Data sources
Facilities
- Food and drink3 within 1 km0.6 miNearest 840 m0.5 mi
Getting there
- Nearest bus stop
- 880 m0.5 miCaswell Bay Terminus
- Nearest town
- 1.4 km0.9 miBishopston (village)
- Nearest airport
- 4 km2 miSwansea Airport (SWS)
Nearby places
- Surfside CafeFood and drink840 m0.5 mi
- Unit 2 Surfside CafeFood and drink850 m0.5 mi
- Angela'sIce cream850 m0.5 mi
Facilities from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Check posted signs; details change. Data sources
Nearby beaches
- Caswell Bay Beach0.7 km0.4 mi east away3.2 Poor later
- Pwlldu1.0 km0.6 mi south-west away3.2 Poor later
- Langland Bay2.1 km1.3 mi east away3.2 Poor later
- Rotherslade2.5 km1.6 mi east away3.2 Poor later
- Mumbles Beach3.5 km2.2 mi east away3.5 Poor later