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Joss bay

★★★★★Small
Faces N all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East
Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.4 m from the W
Wind23mphW · cross-off · gusts 39
Tide 4.4mFalling · low 04:59 (1.0 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–5 ft Swell W 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 2s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell NE 3s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 3–4 4–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 0–1 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 2–3 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 4s 4s 4s 5s 4s 3s 6s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 3s 4s 2s 2s 2s
Wind mph 22 25 27 27 19 8 14 19 20 17 37 32 23 22 24 24 24 21 16 17 5 3 14 16 14 16 16 16 15 14
Tide m 1.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.4↓ 1.8↓ 0.8↑ 0.9↑ 3.2↑ 4.7↓ 2.4↓ 0.6↑ 0.8↓ 2.6↑ 4.9↑ 3.2↓ 0.7↓ 1.0↓ 1.8↑ 4.7↑ 3.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.4↓ 1.2↑ 4.1↑ 4.4↓ 1.6↓ 2.0↓ 0.8↑ 3.3↑ 4.7↓ 2.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Joss 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 Margate 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

Joss bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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.

NESWfaces NSEW
SE
0.6 m at 8 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
1.4 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 45 % reaches the beach

How Joss bay works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

can be good between nov and feb

Tide times

  • Sat 23:50High4.6 m
  • Sun 04:59Low1.0 m
  • Sun 10:58High4.6 m
  • Sun 17:21Low0.7 m
  • Sun 23:26High4.7 m
  • Mon 05:38Low0.9 m
  • Mon 11:34High4.8 m
  • Mon 17:56Low0.6 m

Margate station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

22 May 2005 · patch bloody amazing its sick mate caught a 20ft bang
22 May 2005 · theo amazing best waves ive seen in a long time
22 May 2005 · pete its sick i was so stoked when i saw it from me car
22 May 2005 · Phil n Dave it is to my great satisfaction that we have such a FUCKING AWSOME BEACH so close
22 May 2005 · wing nut exelent travelled the world surfing and my friend tld me about it was the best beach
22 May 2005 · cool dude will wooooo go joss bay

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