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Saltburn Beach

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

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.

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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 Beach 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 Beach 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 Beach works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Saltburn is on the A174 coast road between middlesborough and Whitby.

Good beach break that picks up most swell on this stretch of coast. If it's small everywhere else up or down the coast it'll be a 1ft or so bigger here.

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

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Saltburn Beach

Members' own photos of Saltburn Beach.

Comments

8 Oct 2005 · swhg surfed it 2-3ft sunday 03/10 nice wave caught some nice rights
2 Oct 2005 · jo saltburn beach rocks!!!
1 Sep 2005 · shitlocks and a clean northerly ground swell at low/mid tide surf pennys hole, its always better than the pier, but on big days watch out for the current that takes you into the channel and out to S'burn point, that place can be pretty sketchy.
25 May 2005 · Ry Think you can shoot the pier? Try it! Can screw your board up really bad, believe me!
26 Mar 2005 · cc nice wave if you catch it right caught it 3-4 a few months ago
21 Mar 2005 · :) go to saltburn leisure center , they may have a copy!

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