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Belhaven Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore south-west Best swell north-east

Best of the week: Friday around 08:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.1 m at 4 s from the NW, wind sea 0.6 m from the W
Wind19mphSW · offshore · gusts 32
Tide 3.9mFalling · low 04:15 (1.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell W 3s Wind 18 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell W 2s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 19 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–4 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1
Swell 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s
Wind mph 19 18 18 21 20 13 6 7 8 8 6 11 12 14 15 15 15 15 13 9 3 15 11 11 18 19 19 21 21 20 17
Tide m 4.1↓ 2.3↑ 3.8↑ 4.0↓ 2.7↓ 2.5↑ 1.6↑ 3.0↑ 4.4↑ 3.3↓ 2.0↓ 1.4↓ 2.1↑ 4.4↑ 4.1↓ 2.0↓ 1.6↓ 1.3↑ 4.0↑ 4.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.5↑ 5.1↓ 2.7↓ 2.9↓ 0.7↑ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 3.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Belhaven Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Dunbar 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

Belhaven Bay faces north-east. 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 NENWW
NW
0.1 m at 4 s (swell) · 55 % reaches the beach
W
0.6 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 0 % reaches the beach

How Belhaven Bay works

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

Dunbar's beach, home of the East Lothian surf schools.

Tide times

  • Mon 04:15Low1.9 m
  • Mon 10:37High4.2 m
  • Mon 16:58Low2.3 m
  • Mon 23:09High4.2 m
  • Tue 05:54Low1.6 m
  • Tue 12:09High4.4 m
  • Tue 18:19Low2.0 m
  • Wed 00:28High4.5 m

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

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