East Beach
★★★★★GoodBest of the week: Monday around 09:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.
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Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sat 14 | Sun 15 | Mon 16 | Tue 17 | Wed 18 | Thu 19 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 5–8 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 3–5 | 4–5 | 3–5 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 3–4 | 2–4 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 2–3 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 3–4 | 3–4 |
| Swell | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 5s | 5s | 2s | 2s | 8s | 5s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 6s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 7s | 7s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 8s | 8s | 9s | 9s | 9s |
| Wind mph | 8 | 9 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 11 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 13 | 14 |
| Tide m | 2.7↑ | 4.3↑ | 3.2↓ | 1.7↓ | 2.9↑ | 2.3↑ | 3.9↑ | 3.6↓ | 2.1↓ | 2.6↑ | 2.0↑ | 3.5↑ | 3.8↓ | 2.6↓ | 2.3↑ | 1.9↑ | 2.9↑ | 3.8↓ | 3.0↓ | 2.3↑ | 2.0↓ | 2.4↑ | 3.6↑ | 3.5↓ | 2.5↓ | 2.3↓ | 2.0↑ | 3.3↑ | 3.8↓ | 2.8↓ |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way East Beach faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Cromer 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
East Beach faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to E; 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.
- N
- 1.0 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- W
- 0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 10 % reaches the beach
How East Beach works
- Swell
- Best from the north east.
- Wind
- Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
- Tide
- high tide.
- Getting there
- Red Light Hole Is Marked By The Red Light On The Prom Wall
Beach Break with Lefts And Rights, Reef Break 'Red Light Hole' A -Frame
Tide times
- Sat 03:16Low1.4 m
- Sat 09:14High4.3 m
- Sat 15:29Low1.7 m
- Sat 21:00High4.6 m
- Sun 03:53Low1.6 m
- Sun 09:58High4.1 m
- Sun 16:07Low1.9 m
- Sun 21:39High4.4 m
Cromer station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the galleryStacey Harris, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Keith Salvesen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Nearby
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East RuntonEast Runton · faces N -
Cromer PierCromer · faces N -
The pier breakcromer pier · faces N -
MundesleyMundesley · faces NE


