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Robin Hood's Bay

★★★★★Fair
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Tuesday around 07:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.3 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 2.5 m from the S
Wind29mphSW · cross-off · gusts 50
Tide 2.5mFalling · low 21:46 (1.6 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell S 5s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 32 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell N 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 6s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 21 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 2–3 0 0 0 0 0 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 5s 10s 10s 10s 5s 7s 4s 7s 3s 4s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 4s 3s 7s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s
Wind mph 29 33 33 33 30 23 11 12 15 20 18 22 24 28 25 19 20 19 18 14 11 11 10 11 13 13 21 20 17 16 15
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.2↓ 1.1↓ 3.1↑ 5.5↑ 3.7↓ 3.9↓ 1.1↓ 2.3↑ 5.4↑ 4.4↓ 4.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.7↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 5.4↓ 2.1↓ 1.3↑ 4.4↑ 5.4↓ 5.7↓ 3.0↓ 1.2↑ 3.6↑ 5.5↓ 5.5↑ 3.9↓ 1.6↓ 2.9↑ 5.2↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Robin Hood's 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 Whitby 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

Robin Hood's Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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
0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
2.5 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 33 % reaches the beach

How Robin Hood's Bay works

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

Rocky bay south of Whitby with reefs at either end; needs a solid NE swell.

Tide times

  • Sat 21:46Low1.6 m
  • Sun 02:42High5.5 m
  • Sun 09:08Low1.1 m
  • Sun 15:15High5.5 m
  • Sun 21:23Low1.3 m
  • Mon 03:20High5.7 m
  • Mon 09:45Low0.9 m
  • Mon 15:51High5.6 m

Whitby station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Robin Hood's Bay Coast, Yorkshire (250064) (9452580865) Robin Hood's Bay, from the beach - geograph.org.uk - 3658284

Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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