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Sands End

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

Best of the week: Friday around 08:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the NW, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind9mphSW · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 2.6mRising · high 23:10 (4.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 5s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2
Swell 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 10s 9s 8s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 10 10 11 14 15 14 4 3 7 8 9 7 11 13 11 11 19 20 21 19 14 16 17 15 13 17 16 17 19 19 17
Tide m 2.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.2↑ 4.3↑ 4.5↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.3↓ 3.3↓ 1.2↓ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 4.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 5.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sands End faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NENWSW
NW
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sands End works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
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

  • Sun 16:55Low2.5 m
  • Sun 23:10High4.6 m
  • Mon 05:51Low2.0 m
  • Mon 12:16High4.6 m
  • Mon 18:36Low2.5 m
  • Tue 00:41High4.7 m
  • Tue 07:24Low1.8 m
  • Tue 13:42High4.8 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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