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The pier break

★★★★★Good
Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 09:00, 5–7 ft and cross-off.

Surf now2–4ft1.0 m at 8 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the W
Wind9mphSW · offshore · gusts 14
Tide 2.8mFalling · low 03:16 (1.4 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SE 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
4–5 ft Swell N 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–4 ft Swell N 6s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 8s Wind 10 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 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 6–8 5–7 4–6 4–5 3–4 3–5 4–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 3–4
Swell 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 5s 5s 2s 3s 8s 6s 5s 4s 4s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 9s 4s
Wind mph 9 9 10 8 11 7 7 11 12 15 15 11 13 9 5 17 17 11 10 9 15 5 7 9 9 3 6 11 13 14
Tide m 2.7↑ 4.3↑ 3.2↓ 1.7↓ 2.9↑ 2.3↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.6↑ 2.0↑ 3.5↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.3↑ 1.9↑ 2.9↑ 3.8↓ 3.0↓ 2.3↑ 2.0↓ 2.4↑ 3.6↑ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.3↓ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 2.8↓
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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 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

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 NNW
N
1.0 m at 8 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 19 % reaches the beach

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

  • Sat 03:16Low1.4 m
  • Sat 09:14High4.3 m
  • Sat 15:29Low1.7 m
  • Sat 21:00High4.6 m
  • Sun 03:53Low1.6 m
  • Sun 09:58High4.1 m
  • Sun 16:07Low1.9 m
  • Sun 21:39High4.4 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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