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Strathy Bay

★★★★★Good
Beach break Faces N all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Tuesday around 07:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now2–3ft1.7 m at 10 s from the NW, wind sea 0.9 m from the W
Wind14mphSW · cross-off · gusts 26
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
2–3 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–9 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–6 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–5 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 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 2–3 2–4 0 3–5 0 6–9 4–6 4–5 3–5 2–4 2–4 4–5 2–4 2–4 2–4 2–4 5–7 6–8 5–7 4–7 4–6 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–4 3–4 3–4
Swell 10s 11s 7s 6s 7s 11s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 4s 5s 5s 8s 6s 7s 8s 8s
Wind mph 16 23 20 22 21 17 11 7 14 13 13 12 13 13 15 13 14 14 11 8 4 17 17 14 18 16 15 17 20 21 21
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Strathy Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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

Strathy Bay faces north. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NNWW
NW
1.7 m at 10 s (swell) · 39 % reaches the beach
W
0.9 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Strathy Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Head to the village of strathy along the a838.. when you get there head for the graveyard.. there's a car park a little further along..

Sheltered beach break with good protection from W/NW winds... head here if everywhere is blown out.

Tide times

  • Sun 15:44High3.7 m
  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m

Scrabster station, 27 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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