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Benone Strand

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

Best of the week: Monday around 19:00, 1–3 ft and offshore.

Surf now1–2ft0.6 m at 12 s from the N, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind14mphSW · offshore · gusts 25
Tide 0.9mFalling · low 22:01 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell N 12s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–3 ft Swell N 12s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 11s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell NW 4s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
1–2 ft Swell NW 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 14 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 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 12s 11s 11s 10s 10s 11s 11s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 9s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 3s 7s 7s 3s 3s 7s 8s 9s 9s 9s
Wind mph 14 13 14 11 8 7 5 5 7 11 8 8 9 13 18 17 11 9 5 3 9 13 15 20 17 15 14 17 20 19 15
Tide m 0.9↓ 1.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.4↑ 1.9↑ 1.8↓ 1.6↓ 1.1↓ 1.1↑ 1.8↑ 2.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↓ 0.9↑ 1.7↑ 2.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.1↓ 0.7↑ 1.5↑ 2.2↑ 1.9↑ 1.3↓ 0.5↓ 1.2↑ 2.2↑ 2.0↑ 1.6↓ 0.5↓ 0.9↑ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Benone Strand faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portrush 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

Benone Strand faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 NENSW
N
0.6 m at 12 s (swell) · 55 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Benone Strand 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.

Seven miles of beach under Binevenagh.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:01Low0.9 m
  • Mon 03:40High1.6 m
  • Mon 09:05Low1.1 m
  • Mon 16:32High1.9 m
  • Mon 23:04Low0.7 m
  • Tue 04:45High1.6 m
  • Tue 10:17Low1.0 m
  • Tue 17:14High2.0 m

Portrush station, 17 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
The Big Blue Surf Competition at Benone Beach (47509348561)

john.purvis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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