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Cliff

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 13:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now7–11ft2.7 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.3 m from the SW
Wind20mphSW · cross-on · gusts 34
Tide 2.7mFalling · low 20:19 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
7–11 ft Swell W 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell W 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell W 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
10–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 21 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 8–11 6–9 6–9 10–14 12–17 12–17 8–11 7–10 7–10 6–9 6–9 6–9 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–9 5–7 5–7 5–8 5–7 4–6 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 8–12 10–14 11–15 11–15 12–17
Swell 11s 7s 8s 11s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 5s 5s 8s 5s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s
Wind mph 19 23 24 24 22 18 12 13 12 14 14 16 15 16 16 15 8 7 7 9 11 13 15 19 18 15 19 21 23 23 20
Tide m 2.1↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑ 2.6↑ 3.4↑ 2.8↓ 3.0↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↓ 3.5↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↑ 3.1↑ 4.0↓ 3.9↓ 2.4↓ 1.1↑ 2.7↑ 4.3↑ 4.1↑ 3.0↓ 0.9↓ 2.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.0↑ 3.5↓ 1.0↓ 1.4↑ 4.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Cliff faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Little Bernera 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

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

NESWfaces NWWSW
W
2.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 88 % reaches the beach
SW
1.3 m at 5 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Cliff works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
It's easy to find, but can be a bit of a pain to drive to if ur based on the main north west coast. Follow the coast to the south and you'll come accross cliff.. eventually!!

A sheltered beach beak that faces north west. Had varios left and right peaks up and down the beach. Can have rips in bigger surf. Generally offers a punchy short wave.

Tide times

  • Sun 20:19Low1.6 m
  • Mon 02:57High3.1 m
  • Mon 08:40Low1.8 m
  • Mon 15:26High3.4 m
  • Mon 22:00Low1.4 m
  • Tue 04:17High3.3 m
  • Tue 10:12Low1.6 m
  • Tue 16:35High3.7 m

Little Bernera station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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