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Banff

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

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 7 s from the NW, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · cross-off · gusts 19
Tide 3.1mRising · high 18:52 (3.3 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 15 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 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–4 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 6s 8s 3s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 3s 3s 6s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 4s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 10 12 11 15 15 13 7 8 9 11 9 9 9 10 11 11 17 17 17 14 9 17 18 15 15 12 15 17 19 19 17
Tide m 3.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 2.2↓ 1.8↑ 2.9↑ 2.3↑ 3.4↑ 2.7↓ 1.6↓ 2.4↑ 1.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.3↓ 1.7↓ 1.8↑ 1.1↑ 2.9↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 1.4↑ 0.8↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 2.6↓ 1.1↑ 0.9↓ 1.8↑ 3.7↑ 3.0↓ 1.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Banff faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

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

NESWfaces NNWSW
NW
0.3 m at 7 s (swell) · 79 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Banff works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
South is offshore.
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

  • Sun 18:52High3.3 m
  • Mon 01:32Low1.4 m
  • Mon 07:49High3.3 m
  • Mon 14:10Low1.7 m
  • Mon 20:10High3.4 m
  • Tue 02:50Low1.3 m
  • Tue 09:27High3.4 m
  • Tue 15:18Low1.6 m

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

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