Home / Hebrides / Harris

Scarista, Harris

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces W all tides Offshore east Best swell west

Best of the week: Thursday around 11:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now9–13ft2.4 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.4 m from the SW
Wind20mphSW · onshore · gusts 31
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 19:58 (1.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
9–13 ft Swell W 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
13–18 ft Swell NW 12s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–9 ft Swell W 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Wed
7–10 ft Swell W 9s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell W 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat
9–13 ft Swell W 10s Wind 23 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 9–13 9–13 8–12 11–16 13–18 13–18 8–11 7–10 7–10 6–9 6–9 6–9 6–9 6–9 6–9 7–10 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 2–3 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 6–9 7–10 8–11 9–13 9–12
Swell 11s 11s 7s 11s 12s 12s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 4s 5s 4s 4s 5s 6s 7s 7s 10s 10s
Wind mph 20 22 22 20 17 19 13 14 14 13 12 15 15 16 17 14 5 4 7 10 9 12 15 19 17 16 19 21 23 22 19
Tide m 1.9↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↑ 2.4↑ 3.0↑ 2.5↓ 2.7↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 3.0↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↑ 2.9↑ 3.4↓ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 1.1↑ 2.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.5↑ 2.5↓ 1.0↓ 2.1↑ 3.8↑ 3.5↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 1.6↑ 3.6↑
Rating ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★ ★★★★★

Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Scarista, Harris faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at West Loch Tarbert 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

Scarista, Harris faces west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces WWSW
W
2.4 m at 11 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
1.4 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Scarista, Harris works

Swell
Best from the west.
Wind
Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 19:58Low1.5 m
  • Mon 03:01High2.8 m
  • Mon 08:20Low1.7 m
  • Mon 15:30High3.0 m
  • Mon 21:41Low1.3 m
  • Tue 04:19High3.0 m
  • Tue 09:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 16:37High3.3 m

West Loch Tarbert station, 9 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

Nothing said about Scarista, Harris yet. Surfed it? Say what it's like.

Log in or join to comment.

Nearby