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Seaburn

★★★★★Fair
River mouth Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.1 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 16
Tide 1.5mRising · high 05:59 (4.6 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NE 12s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell N 5s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 10s Wind 5 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 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–5
Swell 8s 3s 7s 3s 3s 3s 7s 9s 12s 13s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 6s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s
Wind mph 9 10 11 12 14 7 9 8 5 12 15 15 15 10 1 17 15 13 14 16 15 14 13 12 11 7 5 10 11 11
Tide m 4.6↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↑ 3.3↑ 4.7↑ 4.3↑ 3.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.9↑ 4.4↑ 3.9↑ 3.9↓ 2.6↓ 2.6↑ 4.0↑ 3.4↑ 4.1↓ 3.1↓ 2.5↑ 3.5↑ 2.8↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↓ 2.6↓ 3.0↑ 2.2↑ 3.7↑ 4.0↓ 2.8↓ 2.5↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Seaburn faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Sunderland 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

Seaburn faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to S; 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 ENSW
N
1.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 71 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Seaburn works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
In Sunderland city, follow the coast road and it is up the road a bit from Roker Pier.

Right and left-peaking waves. Strong current can drag you north up the beach. An alternative for when when Tynemouth is getting heavy swell.

Tide times

  • Fri 23:46Low1.5 m
  • Sat 05:59High4.6 m
  • Sat 11:53Low1.8 m
  • Sat 18:03High4.7 m
  • Sun 00:25Low1.7 m
  • Sun 06:44High4.4 m
  • Sun 12:34Low2.1 m
  • Sun 18:49High4.5 m

Sunderland station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Waves crashing at Seaburn - geograph.org.uk - 5953565 Seaburn Beach and Whitburn Bay, Sunderland - geograph.org.uk - 3647949

Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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