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Kimmeridge Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west

Best of the week: Thursday around 16:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 11 s from the SW, wind sea 0.1 m from the NE
Wind6mphNE · offshore · gusts 10
Tide 0.9mFalling · low 01:16 (0.8 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell S 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–5 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 9 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 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–6 8–11 8–12 8–10 8–11 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–6 7–9 7–10 7–10 6–9 5–8
Swell 12s 12s 3s 8s 3s 4s 5s 5s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 7s 6s 8s 9s 9s 9s 8s 7s 10s 10s 10s 9s 8s
Wind mph 8 5 12 9 8 15 7 15 7 13 2 4 7 10 14 18 17 18 14 12 9 6 7 6 5 9 12 7 8 10
Tide m 1.5↑ 1.9↑ 1.1↓ 0.9↑ 1.3↑ 1.4↑ 1.8↑ 1.3↓ 0.9↑ 1.2↑ 1.3↑ 1.6↑ 1.4↓ 0.9↑ 1.1↑ 1.2↑ 1.5↑ 1.6↓ 1.3↓ 1.1↓ 1.2↑ 1.4↑ 1.5↑ 1.3↓ 1.0↓ 1.2↑ 1.3↑ 1.5↑ 1.5↓ 1.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kimmeridge 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 Mupe 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 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

Kimmeridge Bay faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SWSWNE
SW
0.4 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
NE
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Kimmeridge Bay works

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

Dorset's reef, long ledgy lefts and rights on a SW groundswell. Needs size.

Tide times

  • Sat 01:16Low0.8 m
  • Sat 09:02High1.9 m
  • Sat 13:45Low0.8 m
  • Sat 21:28High1.7 m
  • Sun 01:39Low0.8 m
  • Sun 09:32High1.8 m
  • Sun 14:16Low0.9 m
  • Sun 22:04High1.5 m

Mupe Bay station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
South West Coast Path at Kimmeridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5406928 Coast path near Kimmeridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2895618

John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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