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Balephuil, Tiree

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Beach break Faces S all tides Offshore north Best swell south

Best of the week: Thursday around 06:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now6–8ft2.1 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 2.4 m from the SW
Wind22mphSW · onshore · gusts 37
Tide 2.1mRising · high 02:33 (2.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
6–8 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 22 mph ★★★★★
Mon
6–8 ft Swell W 10s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
7–10 ft Swell W 10s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 21 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell W 8s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
6–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 24 mph ★★★★★
Sat
10–15 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 25 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 22 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 6–8 2–4 5–7 3–5 6–8 9–12 7–10 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–8 6–9 6–9 5–7 5–8 5–8 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–3 1–2 3–5 5–7 4–5 5–7 5–7 7–10 7–10 8–11 8–12 11–15
Swell 6s 7s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s 8s 8s 6s 7s 7s 10s 10s
Wind mph 22 24 22 18 17 16 9 10 14 15 13 20 21 22 24 25 15 11 5 6 14 15 20 22 23 23 30 30 28 26 24
Tide m 2.1↑ 2.0↓ 1.7↑ 2.6↑ 3.2↑ 2.6↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.1↓ 3.1↓ 1.5↓ 1.6↑ 3.2↑ 3.5↓ 3.5↓ 1.8↓ 1.1↑ 2.9↑ 3.9↓ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 0.7↑ 2.4↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 2.7↓ 0.7↓ 1.9↑ 4.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Balephuil, Tiree faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Gott Bay 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

Balephuil, Tiree faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from S round to SW; 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 SWSW
W
2.1 m at 11 s (swell) · 73 % reaches the beach
SW
2.4 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 41 % reaches the beach

How Balephuil, Tiree works

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

Tide times

  • Mon 02:33High2.9 m
  • Mon 07:50Low1.6 m
  • Mon 15:03High3.2 m
  • Mon 21:33Low1.7 m
  • Tue 03:53High3.1 m
  • Tue 09:15Low1.5 m
  • Tue 16:09High3.5 m
  • Tue 22:40Low1.4 m

Gott Bay station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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