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Whitby

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

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the NW, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind10mphSW · cross-off · gusts 18
Tide 2.6mRising · high 23:10 (4.6 m). Works high tide.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 10s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–7 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 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 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 4–6 5–7 5–7 5–7 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 10s 9s 8s 6s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 6s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s
Wind mph 9 10 10 10 15 11 3 4 3 7 9 7 11 13 11 11 19 20 21 19 14 16 17 15 13 17 16 17 19 19 17
Tide m 2.7↑ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.2↑ 4.3↑ 4.5↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.3↓ 3.3↓ 1.2↓ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 4.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 5.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Whitby faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. 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 Thursday 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. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NNWSW
NW
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · 34 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Whitby works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South is offshore.
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

  • Sun 16:55Low2.5 m
  • Sun 23:10High4.6 m
  • Mon 05:51Low2.0 m
  • Mon 12:16High4.6 m
  • Mon 18:36Low2.5 m
  • Tue 00:41High4.7 m
  • Tue 07:24Low1.8 m
  • Tue 13:42High4.8 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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