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Lunan bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces SE all tides Offshore South West Best swell south-east

Best of the week: Thursday around 17:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 7 s from the NE, wind sea 0.9 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 18
Tide 2.2mRising · high 04:44 (4.2 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell SE 6s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell E 6s Wind 3 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 0–1 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3
Swell 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 3s 4s 4s 3s 3s 5s 6s 6s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 7s 6s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 6s
Wind mph 13 13 12 13 14 14 3 15 19 17 12 13 8 7 5 14 12 11 10 10 7 7 9 7 8 6 5 4 3 3
Tide m 3.9↓ 2.2↓ 2.4↑ 4.0↑ 4.1↓ 4.0↓ 2.6↓ 2.3↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 3.8↑ 3.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↑ 3.5↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 3.8↑ 3.2↑ 3.7↓ 2.8↓ 2.5↑ 3.4↑ 2.8↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 3.0↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Lunan 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 Montrose 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

Lunan bay faces south-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 SENESW
NE
0.4 m at 7 s (swell) · 54 % reaches the beach
SW
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Lunan bay works

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

Lefts and rights breaking on shifting sand bars all along the beach. On the north end of the shore by the rocks is a good left sheltered by dunes

Tide times

  • Sat 04:44High4.2 m
  • Sat 10:10Low1.9 m
  • Sat 16:40High4.4 m
  • Sat 22:41Low1.7 m
  • Sun 05:30High4.0 m
  • Sun 10:50Low2.1 m
  • Sun 17:24High4.2 m
  • Sun 23:30Low1.9 m

Montrose station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
The way down to the beach, Lunan Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5555525 Line of similarly shaped marks on Lunan Bay Beach - geograph.org.uk - 6176170

Richard Sutcliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Andrew Diack, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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