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Boscombe Pier

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces S all tides Offshore North Best swell south
Surf now0–1ft0.3 m at 8 s from the SW
Wind7mphS · onshore · gusts 14
Tide 1.5mFalling · low 23:11 (1.2 m). Works all tides.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell SW 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 2s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell SW 4s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 8 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 9s 9s 8s 7s 5s 2s 2s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 2s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 6 4 1 4 7 7 5 4 3 4 3 4 9 15 17 13 9 11 12 12 9 11 11 15 17 16 8 10 12 12 10
Tide m 1.5↓ 1.9↑ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 1.5↑ 1.8↑ 1.7↑ 2.0↑ 1.4↓ 1.4↑ 1.8↑ 1.7↑ 1.9↓ 1.3↓ 1.2↑ 1.8↑ 1.6↑ 2.0↓ 1.4↓ 0.9↑ 1.7↑ 1.4↑ 2.2↓ 1.5↓ 0.8↓ 1.4↑ 1.1↑ 2.3↑ 1.8↓ 0.8↓ 1.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Boscombe Pier faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Bournemouth 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

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

NESWfaces SSW
SW
0.3 m at 8 s (swell) · 81 % reaches the beach

How Boscombe Pier works

Swell
Best from the south.
Wind
North is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Between Bournemouth Pier and Southbourne.

A carbon copy of Bournemouth Pier. Best in the Autumn months. There is a propsed artificial reef though

Tide times

  • Sun 23:11Low1.2 m
  • Mon 08:07High2.0 m
  • Mon 11:58Low1.4 m
  • Mon 20:17High1.9 m
  • Tue 00:32Low1.1 m
  • Tue 09:17High2.0 m
  • Tue 13:12Low1.3 m

Bournemouth station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

24 Mar 2005 · tom That wave is heavy in autumn and spring
24 Mar 2005 · anto full of spongers
24 Mar 2005 · edwin there is goignt o be a artificial reef built soon. It will make the waves amazing on tiny swell.

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