Boscombe Pier surf forecast

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Boscombe Pier

★★★★★Good

Reef break Faces S all tides Offshore North Best swell south

Best of the week: today around 08:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now9–12ft3.3 m at 10 s from the SW, wind sea 1.0 m from the SW

Wind15mphW · cross-off · gusts 31

Tide 1.2mFalling · low 02:24 (0.6 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sun

5–7 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★

Mon

6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★

Tue

6–8 ft Swell S 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★

Wed

1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★

Thu

0–1 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★

Fri

1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★

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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	5–7	4–6	4–5	3–5	3–4	3–4	5–7	6–9	6–8	5–7	6–9	4–5	6–8	5–8	5–7	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	0–1	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2
Swell	10s	10s	5s	5s	9s	5s	5s	6s	7s	7s	7s	7s	10s	9s	9s	4s	4s	4s	4s	4s	5s	5s	5s	6s	5s	2s	3s	3s	3s	3s
Wind mph	12	17	15	12	10	16	19	19	20	17	22	15	15	15	12	14	13	13	11	8	3	3	11	11	8	10	11	11	10	9
Tide m	1.8↑	2.2↓	1.2↓	0.7↑	1.8↑	1.6↑	2.3↓	1.4↓	0.6↓	1.4↑	1.2↑	2.4↑	1.7↓	0.6↓	1.0↑	0.9↑	2.3↑	2.0↓	0.8↓	0.7↑	0.8↑	2.0↑	2.1↓	1.1↓	0.6↑	0.9↑	1.7↑	2.1↓	1.4↓	0.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Boscombe Pier faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Bournemouth 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

Boscombe Pier faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to SW; 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.

SW: 3.3 m at 10 s (swell) · 93 % reaches the beach
SW: 1.0 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 35 % reaches the beach

How Boscombe Pier works

Swell: Best from the south.
Wind: Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide: all tides.
Getting there: Between Bournemouth Pier and Southbourne.

A carbon copy of Bournemouth Pier. Best in the Autumn months. There is a propsed artificial reef though