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Machrihanish

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now10–14ftwind sea 3.9 m from the W
Wind34mphSW · cross-on · gusts 57
Tide –Tide times arrive once the Admiralty feed has run. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
10–14 ft Swell W 7s Wind 34 mph ★★★★★
Sun
28–36 ft Swell W 12s Wind 44 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell W 10s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
11–14 ft Swell W 8s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell S 4s Wind 6 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 10–14 28–36 25–33 22–29 17–23 14–19 5–7 4–6 3–4 2–3 2–3 7–10 11–14 13–18 13–17 12–16 8–11 7–10 7–9 6–9 7–9 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2
Swell 7s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 10s 10s 3s 9s 10s 6s 8s 9s 9s 9s 6s 6s 6s 5s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 34 44 43 41 39 32 12 9 26 17 25 30 29 29 28 22 15 19 15 13 11 14 16 20 24 29 9 6 5 4 3
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Machrihanish faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Machrihanish 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

Machrihanish faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to N; 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 WW
W
3.9 m at 7 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Machrihanish works

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

Kintyre's long west-facing beach; takes every Atlantic swell going.

Tide times

  • Sat 19:15Low
  • Sun 01:22High
  • Sun 06:30Low
  • Sun 12:50High
  • Sun 19:01Low
  • Mon 00:58High
  • Mon 07:21Low
  • Mon 13:31High

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

Photos

In the gallery
Trig point west of Machrihanish - geograph.org.uk - 8347818 Beach, Machrihanish - geograph.org.uk - 8149552

Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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