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Sango Bay

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 09:00, 6–8 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft1.4 m at 8 s from the NW, wind sea 0.8 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · offshore · gusts 26
Tide 3.1mFalling · low 04:02 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sun
4–6 ft Swell N 11s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
4–6 ft Swell N 9s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell N 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
6–8 ft Swell NE 10s Wind 3 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 0 0 0 0 0–1 6–8 6–8 5–7 5–6 4–6 2–4 3–5 4–5 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–8 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 5–7
Swell 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 12s 12s 12s 12s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 11 14 18 9 7 16 12 14 8 1 15 16 14 11 8 9 9 10 9 7 14 12 10 10 9 2 3 5 5 5
Tide m 2.3↑ 3.9↑ 3.5↓ 1.8↓ 1.7↑ 2.2↑ 3.5↑ 3.6↓ 2.2↓ 1.6↑ 2.2↑ 3.1↑ 3.6↓ 2.7↓ 1.8↓ 2.4↓ 2.8↑ 3.5↑ 3.1↓ 2.0↓ 2.5↓ 2.4↑ 3.3↑ 3.4↓ 2.3↓ 2.8↓ 2.2↓ 2.9↑ 3.6↓ 2.7↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sango Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Kyle Of Durness 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

Sango Bay faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 NENWW
NW
1.4 m at 8 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
0.8 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sango Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Head to durness on the A838 you'll drive straight through it and stop anyway!!..

Absolutely beautiful bay with ideal camping spot right at the break.. Picks up most swells and give good protection from all but northly winds.. well worth a drive.. check out the caves in the area also.. they sound great.. when we were there we didn't go.. to busy chasing swell.. wish we had...

Tide times

  • Sat 04:02Low1.7 m
  • Sat 09:58High4.0 m
  • Sat 16:37Low1.4 m
  • Sat 22:38High3.5 m
  • Sun 04:41Low1.9 m
  • Sun 10:39High3.8 m
  • Sun 17:26Low1.6 m
  • Sun 23:28High3.3 m

Kyle Of Durness station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Gentle waves breaking on Sango Bay - geograph.org.uk - 7454713 Sango Bay beach - geograph.org.uk - 7454588

Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Eirian Evans, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · m3d8 Well worth the walk - the sights are breath taking and the waves not either!
15 Sep 2005 · shottykid Stayed up there Tue 13th Sep for a couple of days. The surf was superb 3' and semi-hollow beachbreaks with no-one around. The wind was steaming off shore and holding the faces up very well. The lazy crofter is a cool place to chill out too and very reasonable!

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