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Cullen

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 09:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 7 s from the N, wind sea 0.8 m from the W
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 22
Tide 3.0mRising · high 02:23 (3.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 6 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 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 3–5 8–11 6–9 4–6 5–6 3–4 4–5 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–5
Swell 6s 5s 3s 3s 5s 13s 6s 9s 5s 9s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 5s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s
Wind mph 11 12 12 10 7 14 15 13 13 9 13 14 17 15 6 7 6 7 8 9 12 13 11 9 8 6 6 5 5 6
Tide m 2.2↓ 1.8↑ 3.1↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↓ 1.8↑ 2.7↑ 3.5↑ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 2.0↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.7↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↑ 3.0↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.3↑
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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 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

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 NNW
N
0.6 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.8 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

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 02:23High3.5 m
  • Sat 07:59Low1.6 m
  • Sat 14:19High3.7 m
  • Sat 20:31Low1.5 m
  • Sun 03:08High3.4 m
  • Sun 08:40Low1.8 m
  • Sun 15:02High3.5 m
  • Sun 21:21Low1.6 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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