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Nigg Bay

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 4–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.7 m at 6 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind8mphSW · cross-off · gusts 15
Tide 2.2mRising · high 03:58 (3.7 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell S 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 9 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 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 4–5 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–5
Swell 6s 6s 4s 4s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 3s 3s 3s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s
Wind mph 9 12 15 12 14 13 11 18 15 11 10 13 15 10 8 10 9 6 7 7 10 11 14 10 11 9 8 6 6 6
Tide m 3.1↓ 1.7↓ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 3.3↓ 3.4↓ 2.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.4↑ 3.5↓ 3.4↓ 2.5↓ 2.0↑ 3.0↑ 3.6↓ 3.3↑ 2.9↓ 2.1↓ 2.7↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↑ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.3↑ 3.2↑ 2.7↑ 3.4↓ 2.6↓ 2.0↑ 2.9↑
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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 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

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 ESESW
SE
0.7 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 44 % 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 03:58High3.7 m
  • Sat 09:38Low1.6 m
  • Sat 15:54High3.9 m
  • Sat 22:09Low1.4 m
  • Sun 04:44High3.6 m
  • Sun 10:18Low1.8 m
  • Sun 16:38High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:57Low1.6 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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