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dares

★★★★★Small
Faces W mid to high tide Offshore East Best swell North East
Surf now1–2ft0.1 m at 6 s from the E, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind14mphSW · onshore · gusts 23
Tide 2.5mRising · high 22:35 (4.1 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 2s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 4s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0–1 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0–1 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 7s 8s 2s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 4s 5s 4s 6s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 2s
Wind mph 12 7 11 11 18 14 3 7 6 3 2 8 9 9 11 13 16 16 15 15 12 17 13 8 12 19 18 18 17 18 18
Tide m 2.7↑ 1.9↑ 3.2↑ 4.1↓ 3.2↓ 2.4↓ 1.6↓ 2.2↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 2.3↓ 1.7↓ 1.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.6↓ 2.3↓ 0.7↑ 2.9↑ 4.9↓ 3.1↓ 3.1↓ 0.5↓ 2.1↑ 4.9↑ 3.7↓ 3.8↓ 0.7↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 4.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way dares faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Thursday 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 west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WESW
E
0.1 m at 6 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 90 % reaches the beach

How dares works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
East is offshore.
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 22:35High4.1 m
  • Mon 05:22Low1.8 m
  • Mon 11:41High4.1 m
  • Mon 18:06Low2.4 m
  • Tue 00:07High4.2 m
  • Tue 06:55Low1.5 m
  • Tue 13:10High4.3 m

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

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