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Roker Pier

★★★★★Good
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 17:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–4ft0.9 m at 8 s from the E, wind sea 1.2 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · offshore · gusts 34
Tide 2.6mRising · high 02:02 (5.1 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–4 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell E 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 23 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 2–4 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 11s 10s 3s 4s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 3s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 2s 5s 5s
Wind mph 19 32 33 30 29 22 11 10 15 9 9 23 26 28 24 18 15 15 14 14 12 9 10 11 13 14 19 16 13 13 13
Tide m 2.2↑ 2.3↓ 0.9↑ 3.4↑ 5.1↓ 2.8↓ 2.9↓ 0.7↓ 2.7↑ 5.3↑ 3.5↓ 3.7↓ 0.9↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.1↓ 4.4↓ 1.3↓ 1.4↑ 4.6↑ 4.7↓ 5.0↓ 2.1↓ 1.2↑ 3.9↑ 5.0↓ 5.1↓ 3.0↓ 1.3↑ 3.2↑ –
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Roker Pier faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sunderland 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

Roker Pier 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 EESW
E
0.9 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
1.2 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Roker Pier works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Again, follow the coast road in Sunderland going north. Past the marina on your right, Roker is the second pier.

A decent right is formed from swell building up against the pier. Jump in the water from the pier for a good laugh. Southerly cross-shore winds are blocked by the pier and can still result in a clean wave.

Tide times

  • Sun 02:02High5.1 m
  • Sun 08:35Low0.8 m
  • Sun 14:36High5.1 m
  • Sun 20:51Low1.1 m
  • Mon 02:39High5.3 m
  • Mon 09:12Low0.7 m
  • Mon 15:12High5.3 m
  • Mon 21:29Low0.9 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Beach south of Roker Pier - geograph.org.uk - 7225099 Beach and Roker Pier - geograph.org.uk - 7225084

DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

28 Mar 2005 · anon Just tried surfing the pier for the first time, waves looked good posssibly too big for myself (novice). The tide was dropping and i'v just found out a strong rip pulls back along the pier out to sea scary experience!!. im sure this is common knowledge but if not and you are as inexperienced as me take care.

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