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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 06:00, 10–13 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.0 m at 7 s from the NW, wind sea 1.4 m from the SW
Wind21mphSW · cross-on · gusts 28
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 25 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell N 5s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell E 3s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell SW 11s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
10–13 ft Swell SW 12s Wind 10 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 5–7 6–8 5–7 3–4 3–4 6–8 9–12 6–8 5–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 6–8 7–10 8–11 8–11 9–12 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–9
Swell 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 3s 2s 8s 14s 11s 11s 11s 12s 12s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s
Wind mph 22 26 28 29 30 26 28 22 27 20 21 17 15 18 22 25 24 22 22 19 16 17 13 15 16 10 10 9 7 5
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 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 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

Balevullin, Tiree faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW 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 NWNWSW
NW
1.0 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
1.4 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

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

  • 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.

Photos

In the gallery
The beach below Balevullin - geograph.org.uk - 4480551 Rocks and surf - geograph.org.uk - 4480585

Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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