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Bournemouth Pier

★★★★★Small
Faces S low to mid tide Offshore North Best swell South West
Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 8 s from the SW
Wind7mphSW · cross-on · gusts 14
Tide 1.5mFalling · low 23:11 (1.2 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 2s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 8 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 8s 6s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 5 4 3 4 7 7 4 3 3 4 3 4 9 15 17 13 9 11 12 12 9 11 11 15 17 16 8 10 12 12 10
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.9↑ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 1.5↑ 1.8↑ 1.7↑ 2.0↑ 1.4↓ 1.4↑ 1.8↑ 1.7↑ 1.9↓ 1.3↓ 1.2↑ 1.8↑ 1.6↑ 2.0↓ 1.4↓ 0.9↑ 1.7↑ 1.4↑ 2.2↓ 1.5↓ 0.8↓ 1.4↑ 1.1↑ 2.3↑ 1.8↓ 0.8↓ 1.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bournemouth Pier faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 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

Bournemouth Pier faces south. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SSW
SW
0.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 76 % reaches the beach

How Bournemouth Pier works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
North is offshore.
Tide
low to mid tide.

Can have nice lefts and rights... but works well rarely... has one saving advantage of when it's onshore but big, you can save yourself the paddle out by jumping the pier..

Tide times

  • Sun 23:11Low1.2 m
  • Mon 08:07High2.0 m
  • Mon 11:58Low1.4 m
  • Mon 20:17High1.9 m
  • Tue 00:32Low1.1 m
  • Tue 09:17High2.0 m
  • Tue 13:12Low1.3 m
  • Tue 19:11High1.8 m

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

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Shitty locals, crap wave.. If you have to surf here Move!!
25 Apr 2005 · roofandwalls There can be few things in life that are more tragic than the Bournemouth surf 'scene'
23 Jan 2005 · spongebob it may not be great, but when it works its alota fun, even pipeline needs swell, watch those charts and go surf, ps DO NOT JUMP THE PIER!

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