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Bamburgh

★★★★★Small
River mouth Faces E all tides Offshore South West Best swell North East
Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind8mphS · cross-off · gusts 13
Tide 2.1mRising · high 21:56 (3.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell N 5s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell N 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 17 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 1–2 0–1 0–1 0
Swell 2s 2s 5s 3s 3s 4s 7s 7s 2s 5s 5s 5s 2s 2s 8s 8s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 12 14 16 17 20 13 6 6 7 5 4 7 9 11 11 12 14 15 17 15 8 16 13 7 9 16 16 17 20 19 15
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.8↑ 3.4↑ 3.8↓ 2.4↓ 1.9↑ 1.2↑ 2.6↑ 4.1↑ 3.1↓ 1.6↓ 1.1↓ 1.8↑ 4.0↑ 3.9↓ 1.7↓ 1.4↓ 1.1↑ 3.6↑ 4.5↓ 2.0↓ 2.0↓ 0.6↑ 3.0↑ 4.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.8↓ 0.5↓ 2.4↑ 4.8↑ 3.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bamburgh faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Holy Island 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 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

Bamburgh faces east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces ESESW
SE
0.3 m at 4 s (swell) · 47 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Bamburgh works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Drive up/ down the A1 heading for Alnwick. Follow signs for Seahouses. Bamburgh is north of seahouses. Head for bamburgh golf course and watch out for a car park. You will have a great view of the castle if youre in the right place.

Probably the most consistent wave in Northumberland. Situated just north of the Farne Isles Bamburgh works on Northerly and Easterly Swells, but due to the swell being predominantly northerly in these parts, works most of the time there is a swell. Farne Isles seem to work as some sort of channel for the northerly sometimes here, and as such it can sometimes be a foot or two bigger than, for example, tynemouth, which faces a bit more east. The Break itself is mostly a beach break, but at certain times there can seem to be a left hander breaking off the rocky headland at the north end of the beach. This rarely works well, so best just to paddle straight out from the Wynding car park and surf the usually pretty decent sand bar right there. Watch out for the interesting looking sand bar about a mile south past the castle (getting towards the Watchtower, also listed on here). There is a massive rip runs off the end of it which goes stright out to the farne isles..... not much fun to paddle against. So in summary- a good beach break which can have most kinds of wave depending on tide and wind. Not a very steep beach, so pretty consistent and works on all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 21:56High3.9 m
  • Mon 04:16Low1.4 m
  • Mon 11:03High3.9 m
  • Mon 17:02Low1.8 m
  • Mon 23:27High4.0 m
  • Tue 05:45Low1.2 m
  • Tue 12:27High4.1 m
  • Tue 18:18Low1.6 m

Holy Island station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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