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Joss bay

★★★★★Small
Faces N all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Tuesday around 13:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 6 s from the NE, wind sea 0.1 m from the W
Wind6mphW · cross-off · gusts 9
Tide 3.7mRising · high 02:12 (4.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–4 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 19 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 4s 4s 3s 3s 2s 4s 4s 3s 3s 5s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 4s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 6s 6s
Wind mph 4 4 8 5 6 10 11 20 15 7 22 16 11 1 21 23 26 26 21 19 17 17 18 14 14 19 24 29 27 23
Tide m 2.2↓ 1.0↑ 2.9↑ 4.3↓ 2.5↓ 2.7↓ 1.1↓ 2.4↑ 4.1↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 1.3↓ 1.9↑ 3.8↑ 3.5↓ 3.5↓ 1.7↓ 1.5↑ 3.2↑ 3.7↓ 3.8↓ 2.3↓ 1.3↑ 2.5↑ 3.8↑ 3.8↑ 3.0↓ 1.4↓ 1.8↑ 3.6↑
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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 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

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 NNEW
NE
0.4 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · 78 % 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 02:12High4.4 m
  • Sat 08:35Low1.0 m
  • Sat 14:44High4.3 m
  • Sat 20:36Low1.2 m
  • Sun 02:47High4.3 m
  • Sun 09:10Low1.0 m
  • Sun 15:24High4.1 m
  • Sun 21:15Low1.4 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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