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Brora

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SE mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell North East

Best of the week: today around 18:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.

Surf now4–6ft0.1 m at 7 s from the E, wind sea 1.9 m from the SE
Wind25mphS · cross-on · gusts 42
Tide 1.2mRising · high 23:12 (3.9 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–6 ft Swell E 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell S 4s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell E 1s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell E 3s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 4–6 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0–1 2–3 3–5 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 6s 4s 4s 4s 5s 4s 3s 2s 2s 3s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 1s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 9 25 34 33 38 34 9 7 9 15 19 23 29 33 35 28 17 14 13 17 11 8 5 12 12 15 10 7 4 2 1
Tide m 1.3↑ 1.1↑ 3.3↑ 3.7↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 0.8↑ 2.9↑ 4.0↓ 2.0↓ 0.9↑ 0.6↑ 2.3↑ 4.1↑ 2.6↓ 0.8↓ 0.8↓ 1.8↑ 4.0↑ 3.2↓ 1.0↓ 1.2↓ 1.4↑ 3.6↑ 3.6↓ 1.4↓ – – – – –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Brora faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Brora faces south-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to S; 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 SEESE
E
0.1 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
1.9 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Brora works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the north west; anything with south-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
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

  • Sat 17:14Low1.1 m
  • Sat 23:12High3.9 m
  • Sun 04:36Low0.8 m
  • Sun 10:50High3.9 m
  • Sun 16:52Low1.0 m
  • Sun 22:55High4.1 m
  • Mon 05:15Low0.6 m
  • Mon 11:28High4.1 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
The beach at Brora - geograph.org.uk - 7439794 Picnic spot above Brora beach - geograph.org.uk - 7439778

Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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