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dares

★★★★★Good
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore west Best swell North East

Best of the week: Tuesday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.6 m from the SW
Wind22mphSW · offshore · gusts 37
Tide 3.5mRising · high 02:04 (5.0 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell E 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1
Swell 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 10s 10s 3s 4s 7s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 4s 3s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 5s 5s 5s
Wind mph 32 33 32 28 23 10 12 16 13 9 23 26 28 24 18 15 15 14 14 12 9 10 11 13 14 19 16 13 13 13
Tide m 2.1↓ 0.7↑ 3.3↑ 5.0↓ 2.7↓ 2.8↓ 0.5↓ 2.5↑ 5.1↑ 3.3↓ 3.6↓ 0.6↓ 1.8↑ 5.0↑ 4.0↓ 4.3↓ 1.1↓ 1.2↑ 4.5↑ 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 1.9↓ 1.0↑ 3.8↑ 4.9↓ 5.0↓ 2.9↓ 1.1↑ 3.1↑ –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way dares faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Seaham 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

dares faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to S; 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 ESESW
SE
0.8 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
1.6 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How dares works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
next to seaham harbour cant miss it when it works

hardly ever riden due to rocks check rock boil's... either side of sand channel perfect bodyboarders wave also can form as a wedge too depending on swell direction.. best low to mid high maybe ok but watch on big days as you could end up in shore break... only ever been out on my own so its sort of a secret but its right in front of asda....to the left a bit lol free carpark top of the hill too ;-)have pics but dont know if i can get them on here ???

Tide times

  • Sun 02:04High5.0 m
  • Sun 08:36Low0.6 m
  • Sun 14:38High5.0 m
  • Sun 20:52Low0.9 m
  • Mon 02:41High5.2 m
  • Mon 09:13Low0.4 m
  • Mon 15:14High5.2 m
  • Mon 21:30Low0.7 m

Seaham station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Crashing Wave against Sea Wall and Promenade - geograph.org.uk - 6734628 Crashing Wave against Sea Wall at Seaham - geograph.org.uk - 6734560

Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Les Hull, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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