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Banff

★★★★★Good
Reef break Faces N all tides Offshore South Best swell North

Best of the week: Thursday around 12:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 7 s from the N, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 18
Tide 2.7mRising · high 02:43 (3.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 9s 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 7–10 7–9 5–7 5–7 3–5 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 15s 6s 9s 5s 9s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 9 8 13 14 9 14 18 17 16 12 17 17 22 19 9 12 10 9 11 12 15 19 14 11 14 9 7 8 7 6
Tide m 2.4↓ 1.6↑ 2.7↑ 3.6↓ 2.5↓ 2.7↓ 1.7↓ 2.4↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↓ 2.9↓ 1.9↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.2↓ 2.0↑ 2.9↑ 3.2↓ 3.2↑ 2.6↓ 1.9↓ 2.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↑ 2.9↓ 1.9↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Banff faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Banff 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

Banff faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW 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 NNSW
N
0.8 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Banff works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Between Fraserburgh and elgin on the A98

Has both reef and beach set ups.. a fickle reef and the east end, and a few breaks near the harbour and river mouth.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:43High3.5 m
  • Sat 08:42Low1.6 m
  • Sat 14:40High3.6 m
  • Sat 21:09Low1.4 m
  • Sun 03:24High3.4 m
  • Sun 09:16Low1.7 m
  • Sun 15:19High3.5 m
  • Sun 21:50Low1.5 m

Banff station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
View towards Macduff from Banff beach - geograph.org.uk - 5758962 View of Banff bay, looking towards the harbour - geograph.org.uk - 5758951

Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bill Harrison, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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