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Lossiemouth

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East
Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 19
Tide 3.2mFalling · low 03:07 (1.3 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10 Sun 11
Time 21 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 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1
Swell 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 6s 6s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 2s
Wind mph 11 8 8 13 17 7 7 7 12 9 13 17 12 9 3 8 28 31 27 26 27 29 29 29 26 22 14 12 10 7 2
Tide m 3.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↓ 1.8↓ 2.4↑ 1.6↑ 3.4↑ 3.3↓ 1.8↓ 1.8↑ 1.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↑ 0.7↑ 2.5↑ 4.0↓ 2.4↓ 1.1↑ 0.6↓ 2.0↑ 4.0↑ 2.9↓ 1.0↓ 0.8↓ 1.5↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 1.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Lossiemouth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lossiemouth 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 Friday 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

Lossiemouth faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NNW
N
0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 34 % reaches the beach

How Lossiemouth works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Head to elgin between inverness and Fraserburgh, once there follow signs to Lossiemouth.

Long strecth on beach, not the best however and needs a big swell

Tide times

  • Tue 03:07Low1.3 m
  • Tue 09:13High3.5 m
  • Tue 15:37Low1.7 m
  • Tue 21:23High3.6 m
  • Wed 04:10Low1.0 m
  • Wed 10:20High3.7 m
  • Wed 16:30Low1.5 m
  • Wed 22:25High3.9 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Lossiemouth - West Beach - geograph.org.uk - 8112055 Lossiemouth West Beach - Tank Traps - geograph.org.uk - 8112049

Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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