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Belhaven Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore south-west Best swell north-east
Surf now0–1ft1.6 m at 8 s from the E, wind sea 0.9 m from the SW
Wind22mphW · offshore · gusts 37
Tide 1.3mFalling · low 20:02 (1.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell E 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell W 5s Wind 36 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 4s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell W 2s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 8 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 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 8s 2s 4s 6s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 6s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 22 23 38 37 36 28 10 8 11 9 16 26 30 34 31 26 14 17 18 18 16 13 14 15 14 14 21 15 9 7 8
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 4.4↑ 4.7↓ 1.8↓ 1.9↓ 1.0↑ 3.9↑ 5.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↓ 0.8↑ 3.3↑ 5.3↓ 3.0↓ 3.4↓ 0.8↓ 2.6↑ 5.2↑ 3.8↓ 4.2↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ 4.8↑ 4.4↓ 4.8↓ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 4.1↑ 4.8↓
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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 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

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 NEESW
E
1.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 6 % reaches the beach
SW
0.9 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 3 % 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 20:02Low1.2 m
  • Sun 01:15High5.1 m
  • Sun 07:25Low0.9 m
  • Sun 13:46High5.2 m
  • Sun 19:40Low1.0 m
  • Mon 01:51High5.3 m
  • Mon 08:01Low0.8 m
  • Mon 14:20High5.3 m

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

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