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Sandend

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Faces N low tide Offshore South East Best swell North East

Best of the week: Tuesday around 12:00, 4–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 8 s from the NE, wind sea 0.2 m from the S
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 2.9mRising · high 03:08 (3.4 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
4–5 ft Swell NE 9s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–5 ft Swell E 5s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell E 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun 15 Mon 16 Tue 17 Wed 18 Thu 19 Fri 20
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 3–5 6–8 5–7 4–6 3–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–5 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–5 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–5
Swell 4s 6s 9s 9s 10s 5s 4s 8s 7s 8s 4s 4s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 10 13 9 4 11 10 13 8 9 5 14 16 15 11 6 9 6 8 7 6 11 9 11 9 8 8 7 8 7 5
Tide m 2.6↓ 1.8↑ 2.7↑ 3.5↑ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 2.0↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 2.3↓ 2.2↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 3.1↑ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.7↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↑ 3.0↓ 2.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.3↑ 2.9↑ 3.3↓ 2.3↓ 1.9↑ 3.0↑
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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 NNES
NE
0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 3 % 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 03:08High3.4 m
  • Sun 08:40Low1.8 m
  • Sun 15:02High3.5 m
  • Sun 21:21Low1.6 m
  • Mon 04:01High3.2 m
  • Mon 09:32Low1.9 m
  • Mon 15:55High3.4 m
  • Mon 22:22Low1.7 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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