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Druridge Bay

★★★★★Good
Beach break Faces E all tides Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Sunday around 15:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.0 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind8mphSW · offshore · gusts 14
Tide 1.6mRising · high 05:51 (4.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 12s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–4 ft Swell N 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 4–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6
Swell 8s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 10s 12s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 5s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 4 10 10 11 11 9 7 6 7 19 15 16 16 11 7 22 21 20 19 17 14 18 17 15 15 9 9 10 11 12
Tide m 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 1.9↑ 3.4↑ 4.6↓ 4.2↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 3.0↑ 4.4↑ 3.8↑ 3.8↓ 2.5↓ 2.7↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↑ 3.9↓ 2.9↓ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 3.9↑ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.8↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑
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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 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

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 ENSW
N
1.0 m at 9 s (swell) · 83 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 4 % 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

  • Fri 23:34Low1.5 m
  • Sat 05:51High4.4 m
  • Sat 11:41Low1.9 m
  • Sat 17:51High4.6 m
  • Sun 00:13Low1.7 m
  • Sun 06:36High4.2 m
  • Sun 12:20Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:36High4.4 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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