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Aberdeen

★★★★★Small
River mouth Faces E low tide Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Thursday around 13:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.7 m at 6 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind8mphSW · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 2.2mRising · high 03:58 (3.7 m). Works low tide.

Live webcam

2 cameras

Open the Aberdeen beach cam by Seacroft Marine · Four cams at the Roundhouse looking north over the beach. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Aberdeen › South-east: Aberdeen beach · 0.5 km from the break, Aberdeen. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell S 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
Time 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 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4
Swell 6s 6s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 3s 3s 3s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 7 12 16 13 15 13 15 21 19 14 13 18 17 13 9 13 11 10 12 9 11 14 15 12 12 11 10 9 9 9
Tide m 3.1↓ 1.7↓ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 3.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.4↑ 3.5↓ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.6↓ 3.3↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↓ 2.7↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↑ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 2.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 2.0↑ 2.9↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Aberdeen faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Aberdeen 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

Aberdeen faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 ESESW
SE
0.7 m at 6 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Aberdeen works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
Umm.. where's Scotland again??

long strech of beach north of aberdeen running to a river mouth.. Breaks all along with a right hander coming of the river mouth.

Tide times

  • Sat 03:58High3.7 m
  • Sat 09:38Low1.6 m
  • Sat 15:54High3.9 m
  • Sat 22:09Low1.4 m
  • Sun 04:44High3.6 m
  • Sun 10:18Low1.8 m
  • Sun 16:38High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:57Low1.6 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Aberdeen, Prom ^ Beach - geograph.org.uk - 7286961 Aberdeen Beach - geograph.org.uk - 8392634

Jim Smillie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Jim Osley, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged This place is always worth a vist either when the north coast is Maxed out, or when it's flat but there's a SE showing in Aberdeen.

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