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Benone Strand

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.5 m at 7 s from the NW, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind6mphSW · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 1.3mFalling · low 02:54 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell N 13s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell E 4s Wind 7 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 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–4 4–6 6–9 5–7 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 9s 9s 2s 2s 13s 4s 6s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 3s 3s 5s 7s 5s 10s 2s 2s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 6 8 15 19 15 5 11 15 15 13 9 8 4 9 12 16 15 17 16 16 8 8 9 8 7 7 9 9 10 9
Tide m 1.4↑ 2.0↑ 1.7↓ 1.2↓ 1.3↑ 1.3↑ 1.8↑ 1.8↓ 1.4↓ 1.2↑ 1.2↑ 1.6↑ 1.9↑ 1.6↓ 1.2↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↑ 1.8↑ 1.8↓ 1.3↓ 1.2↓ 1.2↑ 1.7↑ 1.9↓ 1.4↓ 1.3↓ 1.1↑ 1.6↑ 2.0↓ 1.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Benone Strand faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portrush 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

Benone Strand faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 NENWSW
NW
0.5 m at 7 s (swell) · 47 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Benone Strand 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.

Seven miles of beach under Binevenagh.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:54Low0.9 m
  • Sat 09:23High2.0 m
  • Sat 15:55Low1.1 m
  • Sat 21:42High1.6 m
  • Sun 03:39Low1.0 m
  • Sun 10:34High1.9 m
  • Sun 17:44Low1.2 m
  • Sun 23:19High1.5 m

Portrush station, 17 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
The Big Blue Surf Competition at Benone Beach (47509348561)

john.purvis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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