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Balevullin, Tiree

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

Best of the week: Monday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now19–26ft0.3 m at 13 s from the NW, wind sea 6.8 m from the SW
Wind46mphSW · cross-off · gusts 67
Tide 3.3mFalling · low 23:54 (1.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
19–26 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 46 mph ★★★★★
Sun
28–37 ft Swell W 12s Wind 50 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
23–30 ft Swell W 10s Wind 53 mph ★★★★★
Wed
10–14 ft Swell W 9s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 19–26 28–37 27–35 24–31 20–27 17–22 7–10 6–8 4–6 3–4 3–4 19–25 23–30 21–27 21–28 18–24 11–15 11–15 11–14 10–13 9–12 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–6 4–6 5–8 6–8 6–9 6–9 6–9
Swell 9s 12s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 10s 5s 6s 6s 10s 11s 11s 11s 10s 9s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 46 50 52 46 43 40 10 21 35 32 34 56 50 45 42 32 23 27 26 23 25 22 27 32 34 37 15 11 9 9 11
Tide m 3.7↓ 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 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 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

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
0.3 m at 13 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
6.8 m at 9 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 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.

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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