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Nigg Bay

★★★★★Fair
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore west Best swell South East

Best of the week: Tuesday around 15:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now13–18ft5.0 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.3 m from the S
Wind16mphSW · offshore · gusts 29
Tide 1.3mRising · high 01:02 (4.2 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
13–18 ft Swell SE 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell S 8s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–8 ft Swell S 8s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell S 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 13–18 5–7 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 3–5 7–9 9–12 9–12 4–6 5–8 4–6 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 8s 8s 4s 4s 4s 4s 7s 6s 4s 4s 6s 9s 7s 7s 8s 8s 4s 4s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 3s 5s 2s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 16 23 30 34 36 28 5 8 9 16 19 21 27 23 19 19 8 11 11 10 10 5 11 13 11 15 16 10 4 3 3
Tide m 1.2↑ 0.8↓ 2.2↑ 4.2↑ 3.1↓ 1.0↓ 0.8↓ 1.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.6↓ 1.1↓ 1.2↓ 1.2↑ 3.7↑ 4.1↓ 1.5↓ 1.7↓ 0.9↑ 3.2↑ 4.3↓ 2.1↓ 2.5↓ 0.9↑ 2.7↑ 4.3↑ 2.7↓ 3.2↓ 1.3↓ 2.2↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Nigg 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 Aberdeen 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

Nigg Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to S; 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 ESES
SE
5.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.3 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Nigg Bay works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
just south of aberdeen

One of the best breaks on this strech of coast... nice wasy parking but bad water quality..

Tide times

  • Sat 18:53Low1.2 m
  • Sun 01:02High4.2 m
  • Sun 06:14Low0.8 m
  • Sun 12:36High4.2 m
  • Sun 18:29Low1.0 m
  • Mon 00:40High4.4 m
  • Mon 06:50Low0.6 m
  • Mon 13:10High4.4 m

Aberdeen station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Nigg Bay looking towards Greg Ness - geograph.org.uk - 2030546 The Breakwater, Nigg Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2030536

Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Iain Lees, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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