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Bragar

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW low to mid tide Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 14:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now8–11ft2.5 m at 11 s from the W, wind sea 1.8 m from the SW
Wind20mphSW · cross-on · gusts 32
Tide 2.6mFalling · low 20:24 (1.7 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
8–11 ft Swell W 11s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Mon
5–7 ft Swell W 8s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell W 10s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Wed
6–8 ft Swell W 7s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell W 5s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
11–15 ft Swell W 7s Wind 19 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 8–11 7–10 7–10 10–14 13–18 13–18 8–11 7–11 7–10 7–10 6–9 6–9 5–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 6–8 5–7 4–6 4–6 3–5 2–3 3–5 3–5 3–5 4–6 9–13 11–15 12–16 12–17 12–17
Swell 11s 7s 8s 8s 12s 12s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 7s 8s 8s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 8s 11s 10s
Wind mph 19 25 27 27 25 23 14 16 10 18 13 12 13 15 16 14 8 8 7 9 10 15 15 18 17 13 17 19 22 21 19
Tide m 2.2↓ 2.5↓ 1.9↑ 2.7↑ 3.4↑ 2.8↓ 3.1↓ 1.9↓ 2.0↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↓ 3.5↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.0↑ 3.9↓ 3.8↑ 2.6↓ 1.2↑ 2.5↑ 4.1↑ 3.8↑ 3.1↓ 1.1↓ 2.0↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 3.6↓ 1.2↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Bragar faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Carloway 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

Bragar faces north-west. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces NWWSW
W
2.5 m at 11 s (swell) · 96 % reaches the beach
SW
1.8 m at 6 s (wind sea) · 11 % reaches the beach

How Bragar works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Easy to find on the North Coast Road

Bragar is an exposed beach break that offers various left and right breaks. Rocks and rips a hazzard but otherwise pretty nice!

Tide times

  • Sun 20:24Low1.7 m
  • Mon 02:48High3.2 m
  • Mon 08:48Low1.9 m
  • Mon 15:22High3.4 m
  • Mon 22:10Low1.5 m
  • Tue 04:19High3.4 m
  • Tue 10:20Low1.7 m
  • Tue 16:40High3.7 m

Carloway station, 11 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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