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Portrush East Strand

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore south Best swell north

Best of the week: Monday around 07:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now5–7ft1.7 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 2.5 m from the W
Wind24mphSW · cross-off · gusts 46
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 00:21 (0.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
5–7 ft Swell W 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
24–32 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 33 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 5 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 5–7 24–32 22–30 19–26 18–24 15–20 6–9 5–7 4–6 3–5 2–4 3–5 6–8 8–11 9–13 12–16 8–11 7–10 6–9 6–9 6–8 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 5s 11s 11s 10s 13s 12s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 4s 12s 6s 12s 12s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 24 33 33 30 23 17 12 15 19 17 23 30 29 26 23 19 13 17 16 15 12 16 19 20 24 28 8 5 5 5 7
Tide m 2.2↓ 2.0↓ 1.1↓ 0.6↑ 1.6↑ 2.4↓ 2.2↑ 1.4↓ 0.5↓ 1.3↑ 2.4↑ 2.2↑ 1.7↓ 0.5↓ 1.0↑ 2.3↑ 2.1↑ 2.0↓ 0.7↓ 0.8↑ 1.9↑ 1.8↑ 2.1↓ 1.1↓ 0.7↑ 1.6↑ 1.5↑ 2.1↓ 1.5↓ 0.8↓ 1.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Portrush East Strand faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portrush 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

Portrush East Strand faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to E; 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 NNWW
NW
1.7 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
2.5 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 5 % reaches the beach

How Portrush East Strand works

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

The north coast's main beach break; cams on the strand.

Tide times

  • Sun 00:21Low0.6 m
  • Sun 05:42High2.0 m
  • Sun 11:29Low0.5 m
  • Sun 17:49High2.4 m
  • Sun 23:50Low0.5 m
  • Mon 06:12High2.2 m
  • Mon 12:04Low0.5 m
  • Mon 18:25High2.4 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
East Strand, Portrush (48561364072) Surfers and bathers, East Strand, Portrush - geograph.org.uk - 5877506

john.purvis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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