Home / East Scotland / Banff

Banff

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.7 m at 8 s from the E, wind sea 0.6 m from the S
Wind21mphS · offshore · gusts 37
Tide 3.9mRising · high 23:42 (3.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell E 8s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 36 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 5s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 2s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 3–5 4–6 6–9 7–9 6–9 3–5 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 5s 4s 4s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 21 20 29 34 37 34 9 9 11 19 20 22 29 29 30 25 14 14 14 14 12 7 12 17 15 18 22 13 5 3 4
Tide m 3.8↑ 1.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↓ 1.9↓ 1.2↑ 0.9↑ 2.6↑ 4.0↑ 2.5↓ 1.0↑ 0.9↓ 2.0↑ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.6↑ 3.7↑ 3.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.7↓ 1.3↑ 3.2↑ 3.7↓ 1.9↓ 2.3↓ 1.3↑ 2.8↑ 3.8↓ 2.4↓
Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★

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 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

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 NES
E
0.7 m at 8 s (swell) · 58 % reaches the beach
S
0.6 m at 3 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 23:42High3.9 m
  • Sun 04:50Low0.9 m
  • Sun 11:22High3.9 m
  • Sun 17:08Low1.1 m
  • Sun 23:26High4.0 m
  • Mon 05:34Low0.9 m
  • Mon 12:01High4.0 m
  • Mon 17:53Low1.0 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.

Comments

Nothing said about Banff yet. Surfed it? Say what it's like.

Log in or join to comment.

Nearby