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Lunan bay

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces SE all tides Offshore South West Best swell south-east
Surf now8–12ft3.6 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 0.8 m from the SW
Wind16mphSW · cross-off · gusts 27
Tide 1.5mRising · high 01:51 (4.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
8–12 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 8–12 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 0 0–1 0–1 0 2–4 2–3 5–7 4–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 8s 5s 5s 5s 5s 4s 3s 3s 3s 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 5s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 4s 4s 4s 2s 3s 3s 4s 4s
Wind mph 16 28 33 33 33 32 9 11 11 20 16 24 34 34 26 22 12 14 14 15 11 11 10 10 13 17 13 8 5 4 4
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.1↓ 2.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.5↑ 4.1↑ 4.7↓ 1.8↓ 1.9↓ 1.1↑ 3.6↑ 5.0↓ 2.4↓ 2.7↓ 1.0↑ 3.0↑ 5.0↑ 3.1↓ 3.6↓ 1.2↓ 2.5↑ 4.7↑ 3.8↓ 4.2↓ 1.7↓ 2.1↑ 4.2↑ 4.3↓
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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 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

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 SESESW
SE
3.6 m at 8 s (swell) · 91 % reaches the beach
SW
0.8 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 19:23Low1.4 m
  • Sun 01:51High4.8 m
  • Sun 06:44Low1.0 m
  • Sun 13:25High4.8 m
  • Sun 18:59Low1.2 m
  • Mon 01:29High5.0 m
  • Mon 07:20Low0.8 m
  • Mon 13:59High5.0 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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