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Portrush West Strand

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Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Thursday around 14:00, 1–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.8 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind13mphSW · cross-on · gusts 25
Tide 1.5mFalling · low 22:01 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–3 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–8 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–4 2–3 1–3 1–2 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–8 5–8
Swell 11s 11s 10s 10s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 9s 5s 5s 7s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 4s 4s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 13 10 13 13 11 10 5 7 8 8 9 11 11 15 20 20 15 12 6 3 9 13 17 23 20 17 17 20 22 22 19
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.4↑ 1.9↑ 1.8↓ 1.6↓ 1.1↓ 1.1↑ 1.8↑ 2.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↓ 0.9↑ 1.7↑ 2.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.1↓ 0.7↑ 1.5↑ 2.2↑ 1.9↑ 1.3↓ 0.5↓ 1.2↑ 2.2↑ 2.0↑ 1.6↓ 0.5↓ 0.9↑ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Portrush West 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 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

Portrush West Strand faces west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WNWSW
NW
0.8 m at 11 s (swell) · 48 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 86 % reaches the beach

How Portrush West Strand 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.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:01Low0.9 m
  • Mon 03:40High1.6 m
  • Mon 09:05Low1.1 m
  • Mon 16:32High1.9 m
  • Mon 23:04Low0.7 m
  • Tue 04:45High1.6 m
  • Tue 10:17Low1.0 m
  • Tue 17:14High2.0 m

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

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