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Saltburn Beach

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

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.5 m at 7 s from the NE, wind sea 1.6 m from the S
Wind29mphS · offshore · gusts 49
Tide 4.1mFalling · low 21:29 (1.3 m). Works all tides.

Live webcam

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell W 5s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell N 11s Wind 11 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 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 06 09 12 15 18
Surf ft 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–2 0–1 0 0 0 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 11s 11s 3s 7s 3s 4s 4s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 4s 3s 5s 7s 6s 6s 7s 7s 6s 5s
Wind mph 28 32 22 30 25 23 11 11 14 21 20 21 24 29 24 19 19 16 17 14 11 11 12 14 13 13 21 20 18 17 16
Tide m 3.6↓ 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↓ – – – – –
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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 NNES
NE
0.5 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.6 m at 4 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 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 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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