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Balephuil, Tiree

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south
Surf now34–44ft7.0 m at 15 s from the SW, wind sea 9.6 m from the W
Wind34mphW · cross-on · gusts 56
Tide 1.1mRising · high 04:53 (3.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
24–32 ft Swell W 12s Wind 41 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Tue
26–35 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 50 mph ★★★★★
Wed
9–12 ft Swell W 9s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell W 8s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 23–30 24–32 15–20 17–23 9–13 7–9 6–9 5–7 8–11 6–9 23–30 26–35 20–27 19–25 17–22 9–12 8–11 8–11 7–10 5–7 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 7–9 7–10 6–8 8–11 8–11
Swell 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 10s 6s 7s 6s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 9s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 41 41 37 31 30 7 20 29 30 27 53 50 43 41 32 24 27 24 23 25 22 27 32 33 37 15 11 9 9 10
Tide m 3.6↓ 1.6↓ 1.0↑ 3.2↑ 4.1↓ 3.9↓ 2.0↓ 0.8↑ 2.7↑ 4.2↓ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 0.7↓ 2.1↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.0↓ 0.9↓ 1.6↑ 3.8↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 1.4↓ 1.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↑ 3.6↓ 2.0↓ 1.2↑ 2.6↑
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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 Wednesday 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 SSWW
SW
7.0 m at 15 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
9.6 m at 13 s (wind sea) · 80 % 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 23:54Low1.0 m
  • Sun 04:53High3.8 m
  • Sun 11:05Low0.9 m
  • Sun 17:16High4.2 m
  • Sun 23:27Low0.8 m
  • Mon 05:23High3.9 m
  • Mon 11:41Low0.7 m
  • Mon 17:50High4.2 m

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

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