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Sandend

★★★★★Good
Faces N low tide Offshore South East Best swell North East

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

Surf now3–4ft1.0 m at 8 s from the E, wind sea 0.7 m from the SE
Wind22mphSW · offshore · gusts 43
Tide 2.5mFalling · low 04:42 (0.9 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
8–10 ft Swell W 6s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–9 ft Swell W 6s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell W 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell W 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell SE 2s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 8–10 9–13 14–18 14–19 13–18 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 5–7 5–7 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–4 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 3s 4s 3s 4s 5s 6s 6s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 2s 3s 3s 4s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 19 31 36 33 30 11 8 12 18 21 20 25 28 29 24 14 13 13 14 12 9 9 16 12 14 17 11 5 4 4
Tide m 1.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.9↓ 1.8↓ 1.3↑ 0.9↑ 2.9↑ 4.1↓ 2.2↓ 1.0↑ 0.7↑ 2.4↑ 4.2↑ 2.7↓ 0.9↓ 0.9↓ 1.9↑ 4.0↑ 3.3↓ 1.0↓ 1.3↓ 1.6↑ 3.7↑ 3.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 3.2↑ 3.9↓ 2.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sandend faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Buckie 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

Sandend faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W 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 NESE
E
1.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
0.7 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 6 % reaches the beach

How Sandend 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
low tide.
Getting there
In between Cullen and Portsoy.

One of the best surf spots in Moray

Tide times

  • Sun 04:42Low0.9 m
  • Sun 11:01High4.0 m
  • Sun 16:56Low1.1 m
  • Sun 23:06High4.2 m
  • Mon 05:16Low0.7 m
  • Mon 11:37High4.2 m
  • Mon 17:31Low0.9 m
  • Mon 23:46High4.3 m

Buckie station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Cullen Beach (43084220655) Cullen Sands - geograph.org.uk - 7843564

Markus Trienke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Colin Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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