Boscombe Pier surf forecast

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Boscombe Pier

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Reef break Faces S all tides Offshore North Best swell south

Best of the week: Sunday around 16:00, 2–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 11 s from the SW

Wind4mphN · offshore · gusts 7

Tide 1.8mFalling · low 06:05 (1.3 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe

Sat

2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★

Sun

2–4 ft Swell S 6s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★

Mon

2–3 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★

Tue

2–3 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★

Wed

1–2 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★

Thu

1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 9 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	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–3	2–3	2–3	3–5	3–4	2–4	2–3	2–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	2–3	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2	1–2
Swell	11s	12s	3s	3s	3s	4s	5s	6s	6s	6s	8s	8s	8s	8s	8s	5s	6s	6s	9s	8s	8s	9s	9s	6s	9s	7s	7s	7s	7s	10s
Wind mph	5	7	11	10	9	11	9	14	7	10	3	3	7	9	10	15	14	13	11	10	9	7	5	6	5	10	7	9	8	8
Tide m	1.3↓	1.8↑	1.9↓	1.4↓	1.1↓	1.4↓	1.7↑	1.9↓	1.5↓	1.2↓	1.5↓	1.6↑	1.8↓	1.6↓	1.3↓	2.0↓	1.6↑	1.7↓	1.6↓	1.4↓	2.0↑	1.6↓	1.6↑	1.7↑	1.8↓	2.0↑	1.8↓	1.5↑	1.7↑	1.8↓
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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 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

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: 0.3 m at 11 s (swell) · 93 % 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