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Cliff

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 09:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft2.0 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 1.8 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 26
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 03:01 (1.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 9s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–8 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NE 11s Wind 4 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 1–2 0 0–1 0–1 6–9 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–9 6–8 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 9s 9s 9s 8s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 11s 11s 10s
Wind mph 17 18 15 9 24 15 5 3 12 1 15 11 11 10 9 15 14 13 11 11 10 13 12 10 8 4 4 4 4 4
Tide m 2.6↑ 3.8↑ 2.7↓ 1.4↓ 2.1↑ 2.2↑ 3.5↑ 3.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.8↑ 2.0↑ 3.1↑ 3.2↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↑ 2.0↑ 2.7↑ 3.3↑ 2.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.2↓ 2.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.4↓ 2.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Cliff faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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 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

Cliff faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to N; 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 NWNWW
NW
2.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 10 % reaches the beach
W
1.8 m at 6 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Cliff works

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

  • Sat 03:01Low1.4 m
  • Sat 09:00High3.8 m
  • Sat 15:30Low1.4 m
  • Sat 21:32High3.2 m
  • Sun 03:37Low1.6 m
  • Sun 09:47High3.5 m
  • Sun 16:13Low1.6 m
  • Sun 22:30High3.0 m

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

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