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The pier break

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Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 6 s from the E, wind sea 1.6 m from the S
Wind24mphS · offshore · gusts 40
Tide 4.3mFalling · low 00:46 (1.3 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
0–1 ft Swell S 4s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sun
8–11 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 9s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell S 4s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 10 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 0–1 1–2 3–4 8–10 8–11 7–9 3–4 3–4 2–3 1–2 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 4s 5s 5s 6s 6s 5s 9s 10s 10s 4s 8s 4s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s
Wind mph 24 26 26 27 27 23 13 10 15 19 16 21 17 22 18 16 19 19 20 11 10 7 9 9 8 7 10 11 12 11 9
Tide m 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 2.7↓ 0.9↓ 2.8↑ 4.9↓ 5.2↓ 3.4↓ 1.0↓ 2.1↑ 4.9↑ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 1.3↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 4.8↑ 4.6↓ 1.8↓ 1.0↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 5.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.0↑ 3.4↑ 2.9↑ 5.0↓ 3.3↓ 1.3↓ 2.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way The pier break faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Cromer 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

The pier break faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to SE; 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 NES
E
0.2 m at 6 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
S
1.6 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How The pier break works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south; anything with north in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
(average on a good day) normally nothing. the conditions have to be right to surf here, normally best in the winter months...

I am surfer normally who has to go along way to find any breaks... let alone clean breaks!! In the winter months u can get a good right hander coming in off the pier, but the conditions have got to be right... hopefully see u there ina few months

Tide times

  • Sun 00:46Low1.3 m
  • Sun 05:13High5.0 m
  • Sun 12:20Low0.9 m
  • Sun 17:53High4.9 m
  • Mon 00:26Low1.1 m
  • Mon 05:50High5.2 m
  • Mon 12:57Low0.8 m
  • Mon 18:28High5.0 m

Cromer station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Cromer from the Beach - geograph.org.uk - 1875711 Cromer Pier and beach - geograph.org.uk - 5621846

Christine Matthews, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Mat Fascione, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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