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Runswick Bay

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

Best of the week: Monday around 09:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–5ft1.4 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.3 m from the W
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 21
Tide 1.7mFalling · low 00:19 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–4 ft Swell N 14s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–8 ft Swell N 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 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 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 5–7 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–8 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–8 5–8 5–8 5–7
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 2s 6s 9s 12s 13s 14s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 14 15 18 14 14 12 11 3 11 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 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 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

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 NNW
N
1.4 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

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 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, 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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