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Lossiemouth

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Thursday around 08:00, 3–5 ft and cross-on.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 7 s from the N, wind sea 0.8 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 3.0mRising · high 02:23 (3.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 6 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–4 6–9 5–7 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4
Swell 3s 5s 3s 3s 3s 4s 6s 8s 8s 8s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s
Wind mph 9 13 13 11 12 23 20 13 15 11 26 24 24 22 13 21 14 18 16 17 17 22 17 15 19 11 4 4 5 6
Tide m 2.2↓ 1.7↑ 3.0↑ 3.6↓ 2.3↓ 2.6↓ 1.8↑ 2.7↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 2.0↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.2↑ 3.1↑ 3.2↓ 3.1↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.7↑ 3.3↓ 3.2↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Lossiemouth faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lossiemouth 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

Lossiemouth faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NNSW
N
0.5 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.8 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Lossiemouth 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.
Getting there
Head to elgin between inverness and Fraserburgh, once there follow signs to Lossiemouth.

Long strecth on beach, not the best however and needs a big swell

Tide times

  • Sat 02:23High3.5 m
  • Sat 08:08Low1.6 m
  • Sat 14:19High3.7 m
  • Sat 20:39Low1.4 m
  • Sun 03:05High3.4 m
  • Sun 08:48Low1.8 m
  • Sun 14:59High3.5 m
  • Sun 21:27Low1.6 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Lossiemouth - West Beach - geograph.org.uk - 8112055 Lossiemouth West Beach - Tank Traps - geograph.org.uk - 8112049

Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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