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Balevullin, Tiree

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore south-east Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Thursday around 14:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now5–7ft2.1 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 2.1 m from the SW
Wind24mphSW · cross-off · gusts 33
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 19:35 (1.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
5–7 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell W 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sat
9–13 ft Swell W 7s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 5–7 4–7 1–2 4–6 5–8 7–10 5–7 5–7 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 6–9 5–8 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–4 6–9 7–10 9–13 10–14 10–14
Swell 10s 6s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 5s 5s 9s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 6s 7s 7s 10s 10s
Wind mph 24 28 26 21 21 21 15 14 13 19 16 20 22 22 24 25 14 10 6 7 15 16 20 22 23 24 30 30 28 26 24
Tide m 1.9↓ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 2.6↑ 3.2↑ 2.6↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↓ 3.1↓ 1.5↓ 1.6↑ 3.2↑ 3.5↓ 3.5↓ 1.8↓ 1.1↑ 2.9↑ 3.9↓ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 0.7↑ 2.4↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 2.7↓ 0.7↓ 1.9↑ 4.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Balevullin, 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 Thursday 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

Balevullin, Tiree faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWWSW
W
2.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 75 % reaches the beach
SW
2.1 m at 6 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Balevullin, Tiree works

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

Tiree's best-known surf beach.

Tide times

  • Sun 19:35Low1.8 m
  • Mon 02:33High2.9 m
  • Mon 07:50Low1.6 m
  • Mon 15:03High3.2 m
  • Mon 21:33Low1.7 m
  • Tue 03:53High3.1 m
  • Tue 09:15Low1.5 m
  • Tue 16:09High3.5 m

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

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