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Brighton Pier

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Faces S low to mid tide Offshore North Best swell South West

Best of the week: Sunday around 17:00, 6–8 ft and cross-off.

Surf now13–17ft0.1 m at 8 s from the S, wind sea 4.9 m from the SW
Wind24mphSW · cross-on · gusts 49
Tide 5.7mRising · high 22:45 (6.4 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–17 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell W 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 21 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 13–17 8–11 8–10 7–10 7–9 5–8 4–5 4–6 7–9 7–9 6–8 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–10 6–8 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 6s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 2s 3s 2s 3s
Wind mph 24 14 16 18 18 13 5 15 19 18 18 24 18 20 19 13 13 14 16 14 9 1 3 10 9 7 7 8 9 7 6
Tide m 5.3↑ 2.3↑ 6.2↑ 5.5↓ 1.7↓ 1.8↑ 1.5↑ 5.7↑ 6.3↓ 2.3↓ 1.1↑ 1.0↑ 4.8↑ 6.8↓ 3.2↓ 0.8↑ 0.8↓ 3.8↑ 6.9↑ 4.2↓ 0.8↓ 1.1↓ 2.7↑ 6.5↑ 5.1↓ 1.4↓ 1.9↓ 1.9↑ 5.7↑ 5.7↓ 2.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brighton 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 Brighton Marina 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

Brighton Pier faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to W; 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 SSSW
S
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
4.9 m at 8 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Brighton Pier works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Drive to brighton sea front!!

Crappy wave that's always crowded... works best in onshore gales... otherwise it doesn't work.

Tide times

  • Sat 22:45High6.4 m
  • Sun 04:09Low1.1 m
  • Sun 10:06High6.6 m
  • Sun 16:29Low1.0 m
  • Sun 22:25High6.6 m
  • Mon 04:46Low0.9 m
  • Mon 10:45High6.8 m
  • Mon 17:06Low0.8 m

Brighton Marina station, 3 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Brighton MMB 26 West Pier Brighton MMB 28 Pier

mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. mattbuck ( category ), CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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