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Seaburn

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

Best of the week: Monday around 18:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now4–6ft1.5 m at 7 s from the SE, wind sea 1.7 m from the S
Wind23mphSW · offshore · gusts 42
Tide 1.9mFalling · low 21:13 (1.3 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
4–6 ft Swell S 5s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell E 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
3–5 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 19 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 4–6 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 3–5 3–5 3–5 2–4 2–3 1–2 1–2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 10s 10s 3s 4s 7s 7s 8s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 4s 3s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 2s 5s 5s
Wind mph 23 32 37 35 29 27 10 9 15 11 13 23 26 28 24 18 15 15 14 14 12 9 10 11 13 14 19 16 13 13 13
Tide m 2.4↓ 2.3↓ 0.9↑ 3.4↑ 5.1↓ 2.8↓ 2.9↓ 0.7↓ 2.7↑ 5.3↑ 3.5↓ 3.7↓ 0.9↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.1↓ 4.4↓ 1.3↓ 1.4↑ 4.6↑ 4.7↓ 5.0↓ 2.1↓ 1.2↑ 3.9↑ 5.0↓ 5.1↓ 3.0↓ 1.3↑ 3.2↑ –
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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 Wednesday 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 ESES
SE
1.5 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.7 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

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

  • Sat 21:13Low1.3 m
  • Sun 02:02High5.1 m
  • Sun 08:35Low0.8 m
  • Sun 14:36High5.1 m
  • Sun 20:51Low1.1 m
  • Mon 02:39High5.3 m
  • Mon 09:12Low0.7 m
  • Mon 15:12High5.3 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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