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Brora

★★★★★Flat
Reef break Faces SE mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.1 m at 4 s from the S, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind17mphW · cross-off · gusts 28
Tide 3.0mRising · high 18:21 (3.2 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell N 2s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 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 0–1 0 0 0 0–1 0 0–1 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0 0–1 0
Swell 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 1s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 10 20 13 20 19 14 5 10 10 13 11 10 11 12 13 13 12 12 9 5 4 16 14 9 15 15 15 17 19 19 17
Tide m 3.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.9↑ 3.0↑ 2.4↑ 3.4↑ 2.6↓ 1.6↓ 2.4↑ 1.6↑ 3.4↑ 3.2↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 1.0↑ 3.1↑ 3.6↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 0.7↑ 2.6↑ 3.9↓ 2.3↓ 1.0↑ 0.6↓ 2.0↑ 3.9↑ 2.7↓ 0.9↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brora faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Golspie 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

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

NESWfaces SESSW
S
0.1 m at 4 s (swell) · 99 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Brora works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
North West is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Follow the A9 25 mins North of Dornoch Firth. Drive through Brora until you reach a bridge, turn sharp right just after bridge to the golf club, park in the golf club car park.

Beaches, points, a really nice right (Birthdays) breaks near the rivermouth opposite the golfclub.Also a reef at the south end which can get very good indeed. In the right conditions there are various waves to choose from, can look like a skate park!

Tide times

  • Sun 18:21High3.2 m
  • Mon 01:11Low1.4 m
  • Mon 07:25High3.2 m
  • Mon 13:58Low1.8 m
  • Mon 19:51High3.3 m
  • Tue 02:48Low1.2 m
  • Tue 09:04High3.4 m
  • Tue 15:20Low1.6 m

Golspie station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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