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Roker Pier

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft1.1 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 1.5mRising · high 05:59 (4.6 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 13s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–4 ft Swell N 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 10s Wind 6 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 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 4–6 3–5 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 4–5 4–6 4–6
Swell 9s 8s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 10s 13s 14s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 9 10 11 12 14 7 9 8 5 12 15 15 15 10 1 17 15 13 14 16 15 14 13 12 11 7 5 10 11 11
Tide m 4.6↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↑ 3.3↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.9↑ 4.4↑ 3.9↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 4.0↑ 3.4↑ 4.1↓ 3.1↓ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↓ 2.6↓ 3.0↑ 2.2↑ 3.7↑ 4.0↓ 2.8↓ 2.5↑
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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 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

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 ENSW
N
1.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 1 % 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

  • Fri 23:46Low1.5 m
  • Sat 05:59High4.6 m
  • Sat 11:53Low1.8 m
  • Sat 18:03High4.7 m
  • Sun 00:25Low1.7 m
  • Sun 06:44High4.4 m
  • Sun 12:34Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:49High4.5 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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