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Vallay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces N low tide Offshore South West Best swell North

Best of the week: Monday around 18:00, 3–5 ft and cross-off.

Surf now0–1ft2.3 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.1 m from the SW
Wind19mphSW · cross-off · gusts 34
Tide 2.1mFalling · low 20:04 (1.5 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 11s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell W 11s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Tue
2–3 ft Swell W 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell W 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell W 10s Wind 27 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 1–2 0–1 0–1 2–3 3–5 3–5 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 11s 10s 10s 10s 11s 11s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 8s 8s 8s 7s 10s 10s 10s 10s
Wind mph 18 20 19 19 17 15 9 9 13 16 14 18 20 20 21 20 9 9 9 12 13 19 20 22 20 19 24 26 27 25 22
Tide m 1.9↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↑ 2.4↑ 3.1↑ 2.4↓ 2.6↓ 1.6↓ 1.9↑ 3.1↑ 3.0↓ 3.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.5↑ 3.0↑ 3.5↓ 3.4↓ 2.1↓ 1.1↑ 2.6↑ 3.8↓ 3.6↑ 2.5↓ 1.0↓ 2.2↑ 3.9↑ 3.7↑ 2.9↓ 1.0↓ 1.7↑ 3.8↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Vallay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scolpaig 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

Vallay 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 NWSW
W
2.3 m at 11 s (swell) · 10 % reaches the beach
SW
1.1 m at 5 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Vallay works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
Go to North Uist via Lochmaddy. Head north to Vallay turn right to beach.

Beach break. Rights and lefts with good shape. Benefits from facing north and thus tending to shape up well given the prevailing south westerly winds.

Tide times

  • Sun 20:04Low1.5 m
  • Mon 02:43High2.8 m
  • Mon 08:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 15:12High3.1 m
  • Mon 21:47Low1.3 m
  • Tue 04:01High3.0 m
  • Tue 09:58Low1.5 m
  • Tue 16:19High3.3 m

Scolpaig station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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