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Benone Strand

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

Best of the week: Tuesday around 18:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.0 m at 12 s from the NW, wind sea 1.3 m from the SW
Wind28mphSW · offshore · gusts 51
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 00:21 (0.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Sun
7–9 ft Swell N 12s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 11s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–8 ft Swell N 13s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 3 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 2–3 11–14 10–13 9–12 8–11 7–9 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–4 4–6 5–8 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0–1 0–1
Swell 3s 13s 13s 13s 12s 12s 11s 10s 9s 9s 3s 3s 12s 11s 12s 13s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 28 30 31 30 20 16 7 8 19 18 20 29 26 25 20 18 14 14 16 15 13 13 17 18 23 24 9 5 3 2 3
Tide m 2.2↓ 2.0↓ 1.1↓ 0.6↑ 1.6↑ 2.4↓ 2.2↑ 1.4↓ 0.5↓ 1.3↑ 2.4↑ 2.2↑ 1.7↓ 0.5↓ 1.0↑ 2.3↑ 2.1↑ 2.0↓ 0.7↓ 0.8↑ 1.9↑ 1.8↑ 2.1↓ 1.1↓ 0.7↑ 1.6↑ 1.5↑ 2.1↓ 1.5↓ 0.8↓ 1.2↑
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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 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

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
1.0 m at 12 s (swell) · 67 % reaches the beach
SW
1.3 m at 3 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

  • Sun 00:21Low0.6 m
  • Sun 05:42High2.0 m
  • Sun 11:29Low0.5 m
  • Sun 17:49High2.4 m
  • Sun 23:50Low0.5 m
  • Mon 06:12High2.2 m
  • Mon 12:04Low0.5 m
  • Mon 18:25High2.4 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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