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Saltburn

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.8 m at 7 s from the E, wind sea 1.4 m from the S
Wind26mphS · offshore · gusts 45
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 21:29 (1.3 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell W 5s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 11s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 4s 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 2–4 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 4s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 11s 10s 10s 3s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 4s 3s 5s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 6s 5s
Wind mph 26 30 26 29 25 20 12 9 11 20 19 21 24 29 24 19 19 16 17 14 11 11 12 14 13 13 21 20 18 17 16
Tide m 2.7↓ 2.6↓ 0.8↑ 3.2↑ 5.3↓ 3.2↓ 3.3↓ 0.8↓ 2.5↑ 5.4↑ 3.9↓ 4.1↓ 1.0↓ 1.8↑ 5.1↑ 4.5↓ 4.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.2↑ 4.5↑ 5.1↓ 5.3↓ 2.4↓ 1.1↑ 3.8↑ 5.3↓ 5.3↓ 3.3↓ 1.3↓ 3.0↑ 5.1↑
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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 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

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 NES
E
0.8 m at 7 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
S
1.4 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 4 % 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 21:29Low1.3 m
  • Sun 02:19High5.3 m
  • Sun 08:51Low0.8 m
  • Sun 14:53High5.3 m
  • Sun 21:07Low1.1 m
  • Mon 02:56High5.5 m
  • Mon 09:28Low0.7 m
  • Mon 15:29High5.5 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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