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Belhaven Bay

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 17:00, 2–4 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 8 s from the NE, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 1.9mRising · high 05:14 (4.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell E 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NE 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 5 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 2–3 5–7 5–7 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4
Swell 8s 7s 7s 6s 2s 6s 8s 3s 5s 5s 7s 3s 3s 3s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 10s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 5 9 12 10 13 15 16 11 22 17 15 17 16 9 7 19 18 17 13 14 13 10 10 11 8 5 5 8 9 8
Tide m 4.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 3.9↑ 4.5↓ 4.4↑ 3.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.4↑ 4.4↓ 4.1↑ 3.5↓ 2.2↓ 3.0↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 3.8↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 2.6↑ 4.0↑ 3.7↓ 2.3↓ 2.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Belhaven Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Dunbar 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

Belhaven Bay faces north-east. 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 NENESW
NE
0.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 4 % reaches the beach

How Belhaven Bay works

Swell
Best from the north-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Dunbar's beach, home of the East Lothian surf schools.

Tide times

  • Sat 05:14High4.6 m
  • Sat 10:48Low1.8 m
  • Sat 17:14High4.6 m
  • Sat 23:15Low1.6 m
  • Sun 06:01High4.4 m
  • Sun 11:27Low2.0 m
  • Sun 18:00High4.4 m
  • Mon 00:03Low1.8 m

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

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