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Brora

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SE mid to high tide Offshore North West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 6 s from the E, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 18
Tide 2.9mRising · high 02:19 (3.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 2 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 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2
Swell 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 7s 8s 8s 8s 3s 3s 2s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 10 10 12 13 20 20 11 10 9 8 13 13 13 10 5 9 7 11 9 7 9 13 11 8 5 2 3 2 3 3
Tide m 2.1↓ 1.7↑ 3.0↑ 3.5↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↓ 1.7↑ 2.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.7↓ 1.9↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 2.8↓ 2.9↓ 2.1↓ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 3.0↓ 3.0↓ 2.4↓ 2.0↑ 2.7↑ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 2.7↓ 1.9↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑
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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 SEESW
E
0.2 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 02:19High3.4 m
  • Sat 08:01Low1.5 m
  • Sat 14:15High3.6 m
  • Sat 20:30Low1.4 m
  • Sun 02:58High3.3 m
  • Sun 08:38Low1.7 m
  • Sun 14:53High3.4 m
  • Sun 21:14Low1.5 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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