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Balephuil, Tiree

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south

Best of the week: Wednesday around 06:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft0.3 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 1.9 m from the SW
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 26
Tide 2.0mFalling · low 02:25 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 10s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
7–10 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 8 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 5–8 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–9 3–5 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 6–8 7–10 7–10 7–10 8–11 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–10 6–9
Swell 6s 6s 6s 5s 6s 9s 6s 5s 5s 9s 8s 8s 9s 9s 4s 3s 3s 3s 5s 9s 11s 11s 11s 12s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s 11s
Wind mph 17 23 20 24 26 14 19 15 22 19 21 18 15 15 22 24 23 22 22 19 15 17 13 15 16 10 11 10 8 6
Tide m 3.0↑ 3.6↓ 2.6↓ 1.9↑ 2.8↑ 2.6↑ 3.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↑ 2.3↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 2.6↓ 2.2↑ 2.0↑ 2.5↑ 3.2↑ 2.9↓ 2.2↓ 2.0↓ 2.2↑ 3.1↑ 3.3↓ 2.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Balephuil, Tiree faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Gott Bay 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

Balephuil, Tiree faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SNWSW
NW
0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 2 % reaches the beach
SW
1.9 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Balephuil, Tiree works

Swell
Best from the south.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:25Low1.5 m
  • Sat 08:15High3.7 m
  • Sat 14:47Low1.8 m
  • Sat 20:17High3.4 m
  • Sun 03:06Low1.7 m
  • Sun 08:57High3.5 m
  • Sun 15:36Low2.0 m
  • Sun 20:55High3.2 m

Gott Bay station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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