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Saunton

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E high tide Offshore West Best swell North East
Surf now0ft0.4 m at 7 s from the W, 0.2 m at 5 s from the W
Wind8mphW · offshore · gusts 13
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 19:38 (0.9 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell W 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 2s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell W 4s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 18 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 7s 7s 5s 4s 4s 4s 5s 4s 5s 5s 5s 2s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s
Wind mph 7 6 5 10 10 7 8 8 4 6 6 15 16 18 20 17 14 14 14 13 11 22 23 25 24 19 18 18 17 16 14
Tide m 1.4↓ 1.9↓ 1.2↑ 3.8↑ 4.7↓ 2.5↓ 3.1↓ 0.8↓ 2.2↑ 5.1↑ 3.8↓ 4.5↓ 1.2↓ 0.7↑ 4.8↑ 5.2↓ 5.7↓ 2.1↓ -0.3↑ 3.7↑ 6.3↓ 6.5↓ 3.4↓ -0.5↓ 2.2↑ 6.9↑ 6.8↑ 4.7↓ 0.0↓ 0.7↑ 6.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Saunton faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Sunday 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 east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces EWW
W
0.4 m at 7 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
0.2 m at 5 s (second swell) · blocked, 0 %

How Saunton works

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

  • Sun 19:38Low0.9 m
  • Mon 01:23High4.7 m
  • Mon 08:12Low1.0 m
  • Mon 14:04High4.8 m
  • Mon 21:11Low0.7 m
  • Tue 02:58High4.8 m
  • Tue 09:44Low0.7 m
  • Tue 15:29High5.2 m

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

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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