St Cyrus
★★★★★FairSeven days
best session each day · swipe| Sun 25 | Mon 26 | Tue 27 | Wed 28 | Thu 29 | Fri 30 | Sat 31 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 06 | 09 | 12 | 15 | 18 |
| Surf ft | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 4–5 | 6–8 | 6–8 | 5–7 | 4–6 | 3–4 | 2–3 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 2–3 | 2–4 | 3–4 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 |
| Swell | 5s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 5s | 7s | 8s | 6s | 6s | 5s | 5s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 2s | 3s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 4s | 5s | 5s |
| Wind mph | 18 | 24 | 26 | 30 | 25 | 9 | 9 | 17 | 22 | 18 | 27 | 36 | 26 | 27 | 25 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 15 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 18 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 20 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 6 |
| Tide m | 1.1↓ | 2.0↑ | 4.4↑ | 4.2↓ | 1.5↓ | 1.4↓ | 1.5↑ | 4.1↑ | 4.7↓ | 1.8↓ | 1.9↓ | 1.1↑ | 3.6↑ | 5.0↓ | 2.4↓ | 2.7↓ | 1.0↑ | 3.0↑ | 5.0↑ | 3.1↓ | 3.6↓ | 1.2↓ | 2.5↑ | 4.7↑ | 3.8↓ | 4.2↓ | 1.7↓ | 2.1↑ | 4.2↑ | 4.3↓ | – | – | – | – | – |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way St Cyrus faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Montrose 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
St Cyrus 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.
- S
- 1.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- SW
- 2.1 m at 5 s (wind sea) · 14 % reaches the beach
How St Cyrus works
- Swell
- Best from the south east.
- Wind
- Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
- Tide
- high tide.
Tide times
- Sun 06:44Low1.0 m
- Sun 13:25High4.8 m
- Sun 18:59Low1.2 m
- Mon 01:29High5.0 m
- Mon 07:20Low0.8 m
- Mon 13:59High5.0 m
- Mon 19:36Low1.1 m
- Tue 02:07High5.2 m
Montrose station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the galleryStanley Howe, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Nearby
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Lunan baybetween dundee and montrose · faces SE


