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Embleton Bay

★★★★★Good
Reef break Faces NE all tides Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Sunday around 12:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.0 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · offshore · gusts 18
Tide 1.6mRising · high 05:18 (4.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell E 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell E 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 9s Wind 10 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 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 3–4 3–4 3–5 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 4–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6
Swell 8s 3s 6s 3s 4s 4s 7s 9s 11s 5s 8s 4s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 10 12 11 15 11 11 11 4 11 26 22 24 21 16 9 27 27 24 22 19 19 20 21 19 20 11 10 11 13 14
Tide m 4.1↓ 2.3↓ 1.8↑ 3.6↑ 4.3↓ 4.0↑ 2.8↓ 1.8↑ 3.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↑ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 2.4↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Embleton 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 North Sunderland (Northumberland) 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

Embleton Bay faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 NENSW
N
1.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 71 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Embleton Bay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Follow signs for Alnwich then follow signs for Embleton then follow signs for the Golf course and walk over the dunes.

Nice beach break Right and lefts, bit of a reef to the southern end of the beach with a right and left (closes out a little but soem a are makeable). Surfed it once (this week) and would recommend it.

Tide times

  • Sat 05:18High4.2 m
  • Sat 10:59Low1.6 m
  • Sat 17:18High4.4 m
  • Sat 23:31Low1.4 m
  • Sun 06:04High4.0 m
  • Sun 11:38Low1.8 m
  • Sun 18:04High4.2 m
  • Mon 00:18Low1.6 m

North Sunderland (Northumberland) station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
On the beach, Embleton Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2479937 The Beach, Embleton Bay - geograph.org.uk - 4101601

Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

26 Aug 2005 · Mowgli Embletons a prettty good spot! same situation as "Lyn-Z A", kinda just learning but its really good.
20 Jun 2005 · Matt L Got this classic a few weeks ago the 'A' frame is so hollow also had a go on the right hander on the reef to the right of the bay but it was closing out and if you sat on the end it backed off! but on the right swell could be really good. Defo worth a look.
20 May 2005 · James C Yep, good description. Great little A frame in the middle, looks absolutely mint from the beach... and is sometimes as good as it looks!

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