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dares

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

Best of the week: Wednesday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft1.1 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 1.4mRising · high 06:01 (4.5 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 12s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 ft Swell N 10s 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 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 4–6 3–5 2–4 3–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–8 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–8
Swell 8s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 9s 12s 13s 8s 8s 4s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 12 14 18 18 14 9 6 7 13 15 15 15 10 1 17 15 13 14 16 15 14 13 12 11 7 5 10 11 11
Tide m 4.5↑ 3.1↓ 1.8↑ 3.2↑ 4.6↑ 4.2↑ 3.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.8↑ 4.3↑ 3.8↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.3↑ 4.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.6↑ 3.5↑ 2.7↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 2.6↓ 3.0↑ 2.2↑ 3.6↑ 4.0↓ 2.8↓ 2.5↑
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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 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

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 ENSW
N
1.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 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

  • Fri 23:47Low1.4 m
  • Sat 06:01High4.5 m
  • Sat 11:54Low1.8 m
  • Sat 18:05High4.6 m
  • Sun 00:26Low1.6 m
  • Sun 06:46High4.3 m
  • Sun 12:35Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:51High4.4 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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