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Whitby

★★★★★Fair
Beach break Faces N high tide Offshore South Best swell North East

Best of the week: Monday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now4–6ft1.5 m at 9 s from the N, wind sea 0.2 m from the W
Wind8mphSW · cross-off · gusts 15
Tide 1.7mFalling · low 00:19 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Sun
3–5 ft Swell N 14s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–4 ft Swell N 6s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell N 8s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Wed
4–6 ft Swell N 7s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 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 1–2 0–1 1–2 2–3 3–4 3–5 5–8 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–5 4–6 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7
Swell 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 9s 12s 13s 14s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 11 12 11 16 6 10 10 7 4 8 15 15 15 11 5 18 15 13 15 13 12 14 13 12 13 5 5 9 10 11
Tide m 4.8↑ 3.9↓ 2.1↓ 3.2↑ 5.0↑ 4.4↑ 4.2↓ 2.5↓ 2.8↑ 4.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.4↓ 3.0↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.3↑ 4.3↑ 3.5↓ 2.7↓ 3.6↑ 2.8↑ 4.1↑ 4.0↓ 2.9↓ 3.0↑ 2.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.4↓ 3.3↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Whitby faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Whitby 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

Whitby faces north. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NW round to E; 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
1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
W
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 2 % reaches the beach

How Whitby 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
Whitcy is about 20 miles north of Scarborough

Nice beach break with lefts and rights... gets protection from SE winds because of the Harbour wall..

Tide times

  • Sat 00:19Low1.7 m
  • Sat 06:34High4.9 m
  • Sat 12:28Low2.1 m
  • Sat 18:36High5.0 m
  • Sun 00:58Low1.9 m
  • Sun 07:16High4.7 m
  • Sun 13:08Low2.3 m
  • Sun 19:17High4.8 m

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

Photos

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Members' own photos of Whitby. Credits: Stan, Ste.

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · silvabak Surprisingly good!!
1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged Incredably good at high tide when strong South Easterly winds are blowing out every where else. The harbour wall gives protection from the winds and clens up the surf.
1 Jan 2010 · GROMMIT ABUSE world class beach break, when it works!
1 Jan 2010 · GROMMIT ABUSE great
24 May 2005 · jonny man evwry time iv been to whitby its like maybe one foot +. there must be some were else near by to whitby.

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