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Filey

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E mid tide Offshore west Best swell east
Surf now0ft0.1 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 1.7 m from the W
Wind27mphW · offshore · gusts 46
Tide 1.0mRising · high 15:35 (5.7 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.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–4 ft Swell E 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell N 6s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30 Sat 31
Time 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0
Swell 5s 5s 9s 11s 11s 10s 8s 8s 4s 7s 7s 3s 3s 2s 3s 3s 3s 2s 6s 8s 8s 7s 7s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 3s 4s
Wind mph 30 30 18 11 13 14 20 20 19 20 23 18 13 18 17 16 11 8 5 6 9 10 10 10 10 10 9 7 5 6 5 4 3
Tide m 2.6↑ 5.6↑ 4.2↓ 4.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.8↑ 5.3↑ 4.9↓ 5.1↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 4.8↑ 5.4↓ 5.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.9↑ 4.0↑ 5.7↓ 5.8↓ 3.4↓ 1.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.7↑ 5.6↑ 4.4↓ 1.7↓ 2.5↑ 5.3↑ – – – – –
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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 ENW
N
0.1 m at 8 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
1.7 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 09:31Low0.9 m
  • Sun 15:35High5.7 m
  • Sun 21:47Low1.2 m
  • Mon 03:38High5.8 m
  • Mon 10:09Low0.7 m
  • Mon 16:11High5.8 m
  • Mon 22:27Low1.0 m
  • Tue 04:17High5.9 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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