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Dalbeg

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW high tide Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 13:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–8ft2.1 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 1.9 m from the W
Wind17mphSW · cross-on · gusts 29
Tide 2.3mFalling · low 02:45 (1.5 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
6–9 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
14–18 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
9–12 ft Swell N 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell NE 10s 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 6–9 7–9 7–9 6–9 6–9 15–20 13–17 11–15 10–13 9–12 12–16 10–13 8–11 7–10 6–9 6–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–8 6–9 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–7
Swell 9s 9s 9s 8s 9s 13s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 17 17 15 9 16 16 5 4 15 3 19 14 13 11 11 17 15 15 14 13 13 15 13 12 10 5 6 4 3 3
Tide m 2.6↑ 3.7↑ 2.8↓ 1.5↓ 2.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 2.0↑ 2.1↑ 3.2↑ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 1.9↑ 2.1↑ 2.8↑ 3.3↓ 2.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 2.0↓ 2.3↓ 2.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.4↓ 2.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Dalbeg faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Carloway 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

Dalbeg faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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
2.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
1.9 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Dalbeg 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
high tide.
Getting there
On the north Coast road, easy to find.

A beautiful small sandy beach cove on the north coast road. Can offer a little shelter from winds and surf due to high cliff faces that flank the cove. Punchy beach beach with Lefts and rights.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:45Low1.5 m
  • Sat 09:12High3.7 m
  • Sat 15:16Low1.5 m
  • Sat 21:40High3.3 m
  • Sun 03:24Low1.7 m
  • Sun 09:53High3.5 m
  • Sun 16:03Low1.7 m
  • Sun 22:30High3.1 m

Carloway station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Dalbeg Dalbeg Dalbeg A beautiful small sandy beach cove on the north coast road. Can offer a little shelter from winds and surf due to high cliff faces that flank the cove. Punchy beach beach with Lefts and rights.

Members' own photos of Dalbeg. Credits: Sie Baker.

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