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Skipsea sands

★★★★★Good
Faces E low to mid tide Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 2–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft0.8 m at 9 s from the NE, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind7mphSW · offshore · gusts 11
Tide 1.8mFalling · low 00:56 (1.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
1–2 ft Swell S 2s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
2–3 ft Swell E 10s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
2–3 ft Swell NE 8s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell NE 3s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell E 3s Wind 11 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 9s 8s 3s 6s 3s 5s 5s 6s 8s 10s 8s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 5s 7s 8s 10s 10s 3s 3s 4s
Wind mph 7 12 12 10 12 9 10 9 4 8 13 13 16 11 4 21 20 16 16 15 11 11 12 9 11 6 10 11 12 12
Tide m 4.9↑ 4.4↓ 2.3↓ 2.8↑ 5.0↑ 4.3↑ 4.7↓ 2.9↓ 2.6↑ 4.5↑ 3.7↑ 4.7↓ 3.5↓ 2.6↑ 3.9↑ 3.1↑ 4.4↑ 4.0↓ 2.9↓ 3.4↑ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 4.4↓ 3.2↓ 2.9↑ 2.2↑ 3.5↑ 4.7↑ 3.7↓ 2.6↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Skipsea sands faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Bridlington 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

Skipsea sands 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 ENESW
NE
0.8 m at 9 s (swell) · 96 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Skipsea sands works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
Offshore is from the south west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
go to the caravan parc skipsea

spilt peak with good swell or a good left hander

Tide times

  • Sat 00:56Low1.7 m
  • Sat 07:06High5.1 m
  • Sat 13:03Low2.1 m
  • Sat 19:10High5.3 m
  • Sun 01:35Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:52High4.9 m
  • Sun 13:44Low2.4 m
  • Sun 19:57High5.1 m

Bridlington station, 12 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Skipsea Sands - geograph.org.uk - 2612964 Skipsea Cliff and sands looking south - geograph.org.uk - 2612974

JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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