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Seaton

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces S mid to high tide Offshore North Best swell South West

Best of the week: Sunday around 16:00, 2–3 ft and cross-off.

Surf now7–10ft0.1 m at 9 s from the S, wind sea 3.0 m from the SW
Wind18mphW · cross-off · gusts 33
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 23:54 (0.8 m). Works mid to high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
7–10 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell S 8s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell SE 3s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Sat 24 Sun 25 Mon 26 Tue 27 Wed 28 Thu 29 Fri 30
Time 21 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 7–10 4–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 4–5 6–8 6–8 6–9 7–9 7–9 5–8 5–7 4–6 4–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3
Swell 6s 4s 4s 4s 4s 8s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 9s 4s 9s 7s 6s 6s 3s 7s 6s 7s 7s 7s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 18 14 17 21 19 7 20 24 21 19 23 14 14 19 16 12 12 13 13 9 5 4 4 14 14 7 12 12 13 12 11
Tide m 2.4↓ 3.9↓ 2.0↓ 1.0↑ 2.7↑ 4.0↓ 4.2↑ 2.5↓ 0.7↑ 2.2↑ 4.1↑ 4.2↑ 3.2↓ 0.6↓ 1.7↑ 3.9↑ 3.9↑ 3.8↓ 0.9↓ 1.2↑ 3.5↑ 3.4↑ 4.2↓ 1.6↓ 0.9↑ 2.9↑ 2.9↑ 4.2↓ 2.3↓ 0.9↑ 2.3↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Seaton faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lyme Regis 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

Seaton faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to SW; 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 SSSW
S
0.1 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
3.0 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Seaton works

Swell
Best from the south west.
Wind
Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
go the coast road past prt wrinkle head for looe next to downderry

when whitsand is huge & blown out head here for a class beach break heavy though breaks shallow.

Tide times

  • Sat 23:54Low0.8 m
  • Sun 05:47High3.9 m
  • Sun 11:10Low0.9 m
  • Sun 18:00High4.0 m
  • Sun 23:30Low0.6 m
  • Mon 06:21High4.2 m
  • Mon 11:49Low0.7 m
  • Mon 18:37High4.2 m

Lyme Regis station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Seaton , Seaton Beach - geograph.org.uk - 3373228 Seaton , Seaton Beach - geograph.org.uk - 3373188

Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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