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Embleton Bay

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

Best of the week: Monday around 18:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft2.9 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.3 m from the S
Wind18mphW · cross-off · gusts 31
Tide 1.3mFalling · low 20:14 (1.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–4 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 36 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–4 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 4s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell S 2s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 3–4 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–4 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 9s 4s 5s 5s 8s 8s 4s 4s 7s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 7s 4s 5s 5s 2s 2s 2s
Wind mph 18 33 36 33 28 33 10 7 15 21 24 30 36 37 32 25 21 20 21 18 19 14 14 11 20 22 27 24 21 17 14
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 4.5↓ 1.9↓ 1.9↓ 0.8↑ 3.5↑ 4.9↓ 2.4↓ 2.6↓ 0.7↑ 2.9↑ 5.0↑ 3.0↓ 3.4↓ 0.8↓ 2.2↑ 4.8↑ 3.7↓ 4.1↓ 1.3↓ 1.7↑ 4.4↑ 4.3↓ 4.6↓ 2.1↓ 1.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.6↓
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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 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

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 NESES
SE
2.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 43 % reaches the beach
S
1.3 m at 5 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 20:14Low1.2 m
  • Sun 01:19High4.8 m
  • Sun 07:37Low0.8 m
  • Sun 13:53High4.8 m
  • Sun 19:51Low1.0 m
  • Mon 01:56High5.0 m
  • Mon 08:15Low0.7 m
  • Mon 14:27High5.0 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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