Machrihanish
★★★★★FairBest of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.
Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Time | 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 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
| Surf ft | 4–6 | 4–6 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 4–7 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 4–5 | 3–5 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 4–6 | 5–7 | 6–8 | 6–9 | 5–8 | 5–7 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 4–7 | 5–8 | 5–7 | 5–8 | 7–11 | 8–12 | 9–13 | 9–13 | 9–12 |
| Swell | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 8s | 9s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 4s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 4s | 5s | 7s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s |
| Wind mph | 16 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 18 |
| Tide m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.
- W
- 1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- SW
- 0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 39 % 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
- Sun 21:18High
- Mon 02:23Low
- Mon 09:55High
- Mon 15:55Low
- Mon 22:56High
- Tue 03:28Low
- Tue 11:15High
- Tue 17:30Low
Machrihanish station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
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