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Balevullin, Tiree

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

Best of the week: Thursday around 14:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now9–13ft2.1 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 2.0 m from the SW
Wind26mphSW · cross-off · gusts 34
Tide 2.0mRising · high 02:33 (2.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
9–13 ft Swell W 10s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Mon
8–11 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Tue
6–8 ft Swell W 9s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell W 5s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Thu
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Fri
5–8 ft Swell W 5s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
10–15 ft Swell W 7s Wind 29 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 21 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 9–13 8–11 8–11 8–11 8–11 9–12 6–9 6–9 6–8 5–8 5–8 5–7 5–7 7–9 6–9 6–9 7–10 6–9 5–8 4–7 4–6 5–8 7–10 7–10 7–11 8–11 9–12 10–14 11–15 13–18 13–18
Swell 10s 6s 6s 9s 10s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 9s 5s 5s 9s 6s 6s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 5s 7s 7s 8s 8s 6s 7s 7s 10s 10s
Wind mph 26 28 26 21 21 21 15 14 13 19 16 20 22 22 24 25 14 10 6 7 15 16 20 22 23 24 30 30 28 26 24
Tide m 1.9↑ 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 Balevullin, 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

Balevullin, Tiree faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW 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 NWWSW
W
2.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
2.0 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Balevullin, Tiree 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.

Tiree's best-known surf beach.

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.

Photos

In the gallery
The beach below Balevullin - geograph.org.uk - 4480551 Rocks and surf - geograph.org.uk - 4480585

Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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