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Cullen

★★★★★Small
Faces N high tide Offshore south Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft1.2 m at 7 s from the E, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind6mphSW · cross-off · gusts 12
Tide 2.1mRising · high 23:26 (4.0 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell E 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell W 6s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 1–2 3–4 3–5 7–9 7–9 7–9 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 3s 4s 3s 4s 5s 6s 6s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 4s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 6 21 20 36 34 32 10 8 10 18 23 20 25 28 29 24 14 13 13 14 12 9 9 16 12 14 17 11 5 4 4
Tide m 1.7↑ 1.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.9↓ 1.8↓ 1.3↑ 0.9↑ 2.9↑ 4.1↓ 2.2↓ 1.0↑ 0.7↑ 2.4↑ 4.2↑ 2.7↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↓ 1.9↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↓ 1.0↓ 1.3↓ 1.6↑ 3.7↑ 3.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 3.2↑ 3.9↓ 2.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Cullen faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Buckie 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

Cullen faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; 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 NESW
E
1.2 m at 7 s (swell) · 26 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Cullen works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.

good in wind - otherwise 5-6 foot waves

Tide times

  • Sat 23:26High4.0 m
  • Sun 04:42Low0.9 m
  • Sun 11:01High4.0 m
  • Sun 16:56Low1.1 m
  • Sun 23:06High4.2 m
  • Mon 05:16Low0.7 m
  • Mon 11:37High4.2 m
  • Mon 17:31Low0.9 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Cullen Harbour ^ beach - geograph.org.uk - 3532459 Beach, Seatown, Cullen - geograph.org.uk - 3532471

Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Leslie Barrie, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

26 Jan 2005 · Abby Sandend is amazing for surf!! Summer usually has awesome rides!

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