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Sands End

★★★★★Firing
Faces NE all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.5 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the W
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 1.7mFalling · low 00:19 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell N 14s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 5–7 4–6 3–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 9s 12s 13s 14s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 14 14 19 10 14 13 9 5 12 15 15 15 11 5 18 15 13 15 13 12 14 13 12 13 5 5 9 10 11
Tide m 4.8↑ 3.9↓ 2.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 2.8↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.4↓ 3.3↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sands End faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Whitby 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

Sands End faces north-east. 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 NENW
N
1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sands End works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Long northly facing beak breach with lots of peaks. Can be all time, but often average or poor. It's very dependant upon hovw the banks are on any given day.

Tide times

  • Sat 00:19Low1.7 m
  • Sat 06:34High4.9 m
  • Sat 12:28Low2.1 m
  • Sat 18:36High5.0 m
  • Sun 00:58Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:16High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:08Low2.3 m
  • Sun 19:17High4.8 m

Whitby station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Head high perfection. Head high barrelling perfection. Mark coming of the bottom on a "evolution" 7' 2" Single Fin diamond tail Sands End

Members' own photos of Sands End. Credits: Sie Baker, Siobhan, Ste Mallinson.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · GROMMIT ABUSE Sandsend its the sickist place to surf by far. great wave
1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 Good waves can be had - banks dependent , + respect the locals they've earnt it!
1 Jan 2010 · silvabak Can be hard work - but when it's on it's on!!
1 Sep 2005 · shitlocks watch out for the shore break sometimes at high tide, busted my nose a while back
1 Feb 2005 · Those F***in Mancs! Class when the banks are good, probably the best beachbreak waves on the coast north of s'boro! Respect da sandsend crew and they'll respect you!
24 Dec 2004 · d love this spot- saw Eugene Tolmarche get a 5 sec stand up barrell in the 6-8ft range a few months back- a local guy has the footage doint knoiw his name..anyone?
6 Dec 2004 · danny quality- quality - quality. Holds size, faces into oncoming northerlies and has a deep water approach.

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