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Sands End

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

Best of the week: Sunday around 19:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft1.2 m at 8 s from the SE, wind sea 1.8 m from the S
Wind26mphSW · offshore · gusts 45
Tide 2.6mFalling · low 21:46 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 5s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell W 5s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell N 11s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 13 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 19 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 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 4–6 3–5 3–4 2–3 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
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Wind mph 26 34 33 31 33 21 10 11 12 18 18 22 24 28 25 19 20 19 18 14 11 11 10 11 13 13 21 20 17 16 15
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.2↓ 1.1↓ 3.1↑ 5.5↑ 3.7↓ 3.9↓ 1.1↓ 2.3↑ 5.4↑ 4.4↓ 4.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.7↑ 5.0↑ 5.0↓ 5.4↓ 2.1↓ 1.3↑ 4.4↑ 5.4↓ 5.7↓ 3.0↓ 1.2↑ 3.6↑ 5.5↓ 5.5↑ 3.9↓ 1.6↓ 2.9↑ 5.2↑
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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 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

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 NESES
SE
1.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 49 % reaches the beach
S
1.8 m at 5 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 21:46Low1.6 m
  • Sun 02:42High5.5 m
  • Sun 09:08Low1.1 m
  • Sun 15:15High5.5 m
  • Sun 21:23Low1.3 m
  • Mon 03:20High5.7 m
  • Mon 09:45Low0.9 m
  • Mon 15:51High5.6 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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