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Filey

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces E mid tide Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Tuesday around 18:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 6 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the S
Wind12mphS · cross-on · gusts 20
Tide 2.2mFalling · low 01:26 (1.9 m). Works mid tide.

Live webcam

3 cameras

Open the Filey Bay (FileyCam) cam by FileyCam · Live view over the bay, beach and Brigg. Opens in a new tab.

Open the Filey (The Beach) cam by The Beach, Filey · HD still every three minutes. Opens in a new tab.

Open on Windy Scarborough › North-east: Filey Beach - Filey Brigg Cliffs & Viewpoint. - Filey Brigg · 0.3 km from the break, Scarborough. Opens in a new tab.

Player and camera network by Windy.com.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NE 12s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell E 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 1 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 5–7 5–8 6–8 5–8 5–7 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–5 2–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 6s 6s 9s 12s 13s 8s 8s 7s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 7s 8s 8s 8s 6s 7s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s
Wind mph 11 10 7 5 9 9 12 10 7 8 20 18 12 4 5 1 2 3 2 3 19 19 20 20 19 12 11 13 11 8
Tide m 4.5↑ 4.8↓ 2.9↓ 2.8↑ 4.7↑ 4.0↑ 4.9↓ 3.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.2↑ 3.4↑ 4.8↑ 4.2↓ 3.0↓ 3.7↑ 2.8↑ 4.4↑ 4.6↓ 3.3↓ 3.2↑ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.9↓ 3.8↓ 2.8↑ 2.0↓ 3.1↑ 5.0↑ 4.3↓ 2.6↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Filey faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Filey Bay 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

Filey faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE 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 ESES
SE
0.5 m at 6 s (swell) · 76 % reaches the beach
S
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 10 % reaches the beach

How Filey works

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

Long sheltered bay under the Brigg; takes the same NE swell as Scarborough and holds a bit more size. Beach cams on the seafront.

Tide times

  • Sun 01:26Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:43High5.1 m
  • Sun 13:35Low2.5 m
  • Sun 19:48High5.2 m
  • Mon 02:10Low2.2 m
  • Mon 08:35High4.9 m
  • Mon 14:23Low2.7 m
  • Mon 20:40High5.0 m

Filey Bay station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Old timer on Filey Sands - geograph.org.uk - 5565011 Filey Sands - geograph.org.uk - 5705264

Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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