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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: Wednesday around 10:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.1 m at 8 s from the SW
Wind4mphNE · offshore · gusts 6
Tide 5.3mRising · high 01:31 (5.8 m). Works low to mid tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sat 14 Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19
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 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 4–5 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–5 4–5 3–5 3–5
Swell 10s 7s 2s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 4s 6s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 6s 8s 6s 5s
Wind mph 5 6 9 7 6 12 13 14 9 6 7 1 4 8 10 17 15 15 14 11 11 9 7 4 5 12 9 11 9 9
Tide m 2.4↓ 2.1↑ 5.0↑ 5.1↓ 2.5↓ 3.0↓ 2.0↑ 4.3↑ 5.2↓ 3.1↓ 3.7↓ 2.2↓ 3.6↑ 5.0↓ 3.7↓ 4.4↓ 2.6↓ 2.9↑ 4.6↑ 4.4↓ 4.9↓ 3.2↓ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 4.9↓ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 2.3↓ 3.2↑ 5.1↑
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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 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

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 SSW
SW
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 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 01:31High5.8 m
  • Sat 07:40Low1.6 m
  • Sat 13:33High5.6 m
  • Sat 19:59Low1.6 m
  • Sun 02:06High5.5 m
  • Sun 08:21Low1.9 m
  • Sun 14:08High5.3 m
  • Sun 20:42Low1.9 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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