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Saltburn

★★★★★Firing
Point break Faces N all tides Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Thursday around 07:00, 5–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–5ft1.3 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 1.5mRising · high 06:16 (4.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–4 ft Swell NE 15s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 2 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 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5 3–5 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–7
Swell 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 11s 14s 15s 14s 8s 8s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 11 12 14 17 14 15 8 10 6 9 11 13 14 7 3 14 12 10 12 9 10 9 11 9 8 3 0 4 5 7
Tide m 4.7↑ 3.4↓ 1.8↓ 3.2↑ 4.8↑ 4.3↑ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.8↑ 4.5↑ 3.8↑ 4.1↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.2↓ 3.2↓ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 2.7↑ 4.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.9↑ 2.1↑ 3.7↑ 4.2↓ 2.9↓ 2.4↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Saltburn faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at River Tees Entrance 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

Saltburn 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 NNSW
N
1.3 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How Saltburn works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Saltburn Point is one of the best right handers along this stretch of coast. Can often get busy.

Tide times

  • Sat 00:02Low1.5 m
  • Sat 06:16High4.7 m
  • Sat 12:09Low1.8 m
  • Sat 18:20High4.8 m
  • Sun 00:41Low1.7 m
  • Sun 07:01High4.5 m
  • Sun 12:50Low2.1 m
  • Sun 19:06High4.6 m

River Tees Entrance station, 13 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Saltburn Sands seen from the pier - geograph.org.uk - 7838967 Cliffs and wave patterns, Saltburn-by-the-Sea - geograph.org.uk - 2386334

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

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · silvabak it's quite good really, very dependable, nestle amongst crowd-breaks
24 Apr 2008 · Sie Baker Great story!! wish i was there!
8 Jan 2005 · pete "cumbria" a good place ,friendly enjoyable surfing.

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