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Saunton

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W high tide Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Monday around 08:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.3 m at 12 s from the W
Wind9mphE · offshore · gusts 14
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 02:32 (0.6 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 13s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 7s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–10 ft Swell W 10s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
12–16 ft Swell W 11s Wind 24 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–5 4–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 5–7 7–9 6–8 5–8 5–7 7–9 7–10 7–10 7–10 8–11 12–17 12–16 11–15 10–13 8–12
Swell 12s 13s 12s 11s 9s 7s 7s 7s 4s 4s 7s 7s 8s 8s 3s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 10s 10s 10s 10s 11s 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s
Wind mph 10 11 12 8 9 10 12 11 12 20 3 4 10 17 17 21 19 18 18 19 7 9 9 7 9 20 23 25 24 22
Tide m 4.0↑ 5.9↓ 2.9↓ 0.6↑ 3.3↑ 3.0↑ 5.6↓ 3.5↓ 0.8↓ 2.3↑ 2.1↑ 5.1↑ 4.1↓ 1.3↓ 1.4↑ 1.3↑ 4.3↑ 4.4↓ 2.0↓ 0.9↑ 1.0↑ 3.1↑ 4.6↓ 2.8↓ 0.9↓ 1.3↓ 2.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.0↓ 1.4↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Saunton faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Yelland Marsh 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

Saunton faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to NW; 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 WW
W
0.3 m at 12 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Saunton works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
from Barnstaple look for sign to Braunton then from Braunton signs for Saunton sands

A flat beach on the Atlantic some of the best surf on a good day. A three or more mile long beach with an estuary at one end.

Tide times

  • Sat 02:32Low0.6 m
  • Sat 08:26High6.0 m
  • Sat 14:59Low0.6 m
  • Sat 20:43High5.6 m
  • Sun 03:09Low0.7 m
  • Sun 09:00High5.6 m
  • Sun 15:42Low0.6 m
  • Sun 21:19High5.2 m

Yelland Marsh station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Surfers at Saunton Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2337863 Surfing at Saunton Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2337848

Tom Jolliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Tom Jolliffe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Comments

16 Oct 2004 · stevio really gud wen the swell is there the beach stretches for a few miles right round to its nieghbouring westward ho! with just the river mouth between them plenty of room to play!

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