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Banff

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces N all tides Offshore South Best swell North

Best of the week: today around 18:00, 2–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–4ft0.5 m at 9 s from the NE, wind sea 1.9 m from the NW
Wind19mphW · cross-on · gusts 34
Tide 3.5mFalling · low 18:42 (1.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell S 3s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sat 10 Sun 11 Mon 12 Tue 13 Wed 14 Thu 15 Fri 16
Time 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 2s 2s 5s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 16 14 7 7 7 4 5 17 19 18 16 15 9 5 4 9 14 20 23 26 23 21 24 14 14 11 8 8 9 11 11 10
Tide m 3.0↓ 1.1↓ 1.1↓ 1.4↑ 3.5↑ 3.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.1↑ 3.7↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↓ 1.1↑ 2.8↑ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.5↓ 1.2↓ 2.4↑ 3.7↑ 2.6↓ 2.8↓ 1.4↓ 2.2↑ 3.6↑ 2.9↓ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Banff faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Banff above chart datum, rising ↑ or falling ↓; the rating drops when the tide is outside the window this break works on. Amber marks the sessions worth setting an alarm for. From Tuesday the swell comes from Météo-France's 10-day model, which is coarser than the 5 km German model used close in. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Banff faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; the brighter a wedge, the deeper the water in that direction and the more of the swell gets in. Anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NNENW
NE
0.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
NW
1.9 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Banff works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Between Fraserburgh and elgin on the A98

Has both reef and beach set ups.. a fickle reef and the east end, and a few breaks near the harbour and river mouth.

Tide times

  • Sat 18:42Low1.0 m
  • Sun 00:59High4.0 m
  • Sun 07:12Low0.8 m
  • Sun 13:30High3.9 m
  • Sun 19:23Low1.0 m
  • Mon 01:41High4.0 m
  • Mon 07:52Low0.9 m
  • Mon 14:05High3.9 m

Banff station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
View towards Macduff from Banff beach - geograph.org.uk - 5758962 View of Banff bay, looking towards the harbour - geograph.org.uk - 5758951

Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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