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Druridge Bay

★★★★★Good
Beach break Faces E all tides Offshore west Best swell east
Surf now3–4ft1.1 m at 9 s from the SE, wind sea 1.5 m from the SW
Wind28mphSW · offshore · gusts 50
Tide 3.9mRising · high 01:54 (5.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–5 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell S 2s Wind 17 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 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 4–5 4–5 4–6 3–5 2–4 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 11s 10s 4s 5s 5s 7s 8s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 4s 5s 2s 2s 2s
Wind mph 35 38 36 30 27 5 10 15 11 11 24 30 30 27 20 18 15 18 17 15 11 12 13 15 20 22 21 19 15 13
Tide m 2.1↓ 1.0↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↓ 2.6↓ 2.7↓ 0.8↑ 3.0↑ 5.2↑ 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 0.8↓ 2.3↑ 5.1↑ 3.9↓ 4.2↓ 1.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.7↑ 4.4↓ 4.8↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↑ 4.1↑ 4.8↓ 5.0↓ 2.8↓ 1.4↑ 3.4↑ –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Druridge Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Amble 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

Druridge Bay 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
1.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
1.5 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How Druridge Bay works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Seven miles of open beach; always somewhere working along it.

Tide times

  • Sun 01:54High5.0 m
  • Sun 08:19Low0.9 m
  • Sun 14:28High5.0 m
  • Sun 20:33Low1.2 m
  • Mon 02:31High5.2 m
  • Mon 08:57Low0.8 m
  • Mon 15:02High5.2 m
  • Mon 21:11Low1.0 m

Amble station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Druridge Bay beach - geograph.org.uk - 7339628 Beach at Chibburn Links, Druridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 6253939

Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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