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Sango Bay

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

Best of the week: today around 18:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.7 m at 8 s from the NE, wind sea 1.8 m from the SE
Wind14mphS · cross-off · gusts 23
Tide 3.8mRising · high 19:03 (4.4 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
3–4 ft Swell E 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–3 ft Swell N 12s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell S 3s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell W 8s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
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 3–4 1–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 7s 12s 6s 10s 12s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 8s 3s 4s 5s 6s 7s 7s 10s 9s 6s 9s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 17 26 39 36 35 15 7 8 12 18 21 30 38 34 33 22 18 17 22 20 19 15 10 12 14 12 11 10 8 5
Tide m 4.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.3↓ 1.0↓ 1.9↑ 4.5↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 1.2↓ 1.2↑ 4.2↑ 3.6↑ 4.3↓ 1.6↓ 0.6↑ 3.5↑ 3.0↑ 4.6↓ 2.3↓ 0.5↑ 2.7↑ 2.3↑ 4.5↑ 3.0↓ 0.7↓ 1.8↑ – – – – –
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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 NENESE
NE
0.7 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SE
1.8 m at 4 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 19:03High4.4 m
  • Sun 01:47Low0.4 m
  • Sun 06:39High4.4 m
  • Sun 12:59Low0.8 m
  • Sun 18:44High4.6 m
  • Mon 01:22Low0.3 m
  • Mon 07:16High4.5 m
  • Mon 13:36Low0.6 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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