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Belhaven Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell north

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 1–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.1 m at 4 s from the NW, wind sea 0.6 m from the SW
Wind17mphSW · offshore · gusts 29
Tide 3.2mRising · high 21:29 (4.1 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 19 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 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 17 18 18 21 20 13 6 7 8 8 6 11 12 14 15 15 15 15 13 9 3 15 11 11 18 19 19 21 21 20 17
Tide m 3.1↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.0↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 1.6↑ 3.0↑ 4.4↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↓ 2.1↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.0↓ 1.6↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 4.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.5↑ 5.1↓ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 0.7↑ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 3.2↓
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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 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

Belhaven Bay 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
0.1 m at 4 s (swell) · 36 % reaches the beach
SW
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Belhaven Bay 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.

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

Tide times

  • Sun 21:29High4.1 m
  • Mon 04:15Low1.9 m
  • Mon 10:37High4.2 m
  • Mon 16:58Low2.3 m
  • Mon 23:09High4.2 m
  • Tue 05:54Low1.6 m
  • Tue 12:09High4.4 m
  • Tue 18:19Low2.0 m

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

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