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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: Thursday around 09:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.5 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.1 m from the W
Wind11mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 1.7mFalling · low 00:19 (1.7 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NE 12s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 3–5 3–5 4–5 3–4
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 7s 10s 12s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 15 15 14 18 11 12 9 9 2 8 15 15 15 11 5 18 15 13 15 13 12 14 13 12 13 5 5 9 10 11
Tide m 4.8↑ 3.9↓ 2.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 2.8↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.4↓ 3.3↓ 2.6↑
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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 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

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 ENW
N
1.5 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
W
0.1 m at 1 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 00:19Low1.7 m
  • Sat 06:34High4.9 m
  • Sat 12:28Low2.1 m
  • Sat 18:36High5.0 m
  • Sun 00:58Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:16High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:08Low2.3 m
  • Sun 19:17High4.8 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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