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Runswick Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft1.1 m at 8 s from the E, wind sea 2.0 m from the S
Wind27mphS · offshore · gusts 48
Tide 2.6mFalling · low 21:46 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 5s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Sun
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 10s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 6s 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 1–2 0–1 1–2 3–5 4–6 2–4 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 5s 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 10s 10s 10s 4s 7s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s
Wind mph 27 34 32 31 31 21 10 11 13 21 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 Runswick 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

Runswick Bay faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; 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 NES
E
1.1 m at 8 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
S
2.0 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 6 % reaches the beach

How Runswick Bay works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south east; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
on the A174 between whitby and Sandsend.

there's several reef's in this massive bay. Offers good shelter form northly winds sometimes and wotks in the Big NE Swells.

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, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Boulders on the beach, Runswick Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5247842 Runswick Bay 1989, SE across Runswick Sands - geograph.org.uk - 4288545

Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Ben Brooksbank, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

19 Sep 2005 · jt24uk surfed runswick 17th sept . Too big and messy everywhere else. Was brilliant at runswick.
5 May 2005 · p Cobble dump very overated, the right is proabably the best when its working.

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