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Vazon Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore south-east Best swell north-west

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now8–11ftwind sea 5.9 m from the W
Wind45mphSW · cross-on · gusts 60
Tide –No tide station near enough. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
8–11 ft Swell W 9s Wind 45 mph ★★★★★
Sun
14–18 ft Swell W 9s Wind 27 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell W 9s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 8s Wind 12 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 8–11 14–18 13–18 12–16 10–14 10–13 5–7 3–5 3–5 5–7 5–8 4–6 6–8 6–8 9–12 9–13 8–11 8–11 7–10 7–9 6–8 4–6 4–6 4–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
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Wind mph 45 27 28 25 23 18 25 28 31 26 21 30 29 28 25 23 17 16 17 16 8 8 11 11 12 13 12 15 14 15 16
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Vazon Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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

Vazon Bay faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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 NWW
W
5.9 m at 9 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Vazon Bay works

Swell
Best from the north-west.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-east; anything with north-west in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Guernsey's surf beach.

Photos

In the gallery
Surfing in Vazon Bay (Unsplash) Surfing in Vazon Bay, Guernsey (Unsplash)

Enrapture Media enrapture, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Enrapture Media enrapture, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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