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Druridge Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces E all tides Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Friday around 12:00, 3–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind13mphSW · offshore · gusts 23
Tide 4.0mFalling · low 05:06 (1.8 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell N 8s Wind 2 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell N 6s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 23 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–5 3–5 3–4 3–4 2–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 5s 2s 2s 3s 3s 2s 8s 8s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s
Wind mph 13 8 12 16 16 14 2 3 2 2 4 8 9 12 12 12 19 20 22 20 14 23 20 10 11 19 16 18 20 19 17
Tide m 4.1↓ 1.9↑ 3.4↑ 4.1↓ 3.1↓ 2.3↑ 1.6↓ 2.4↑ 4.2↑ 3.8↓ 2.2↓ 1.7↓ 1.6↑ 3.9↑ 4.4↓ 2.4↓ 2.2↓ 1.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.8↓ 2.9↓ 2.9↓ 0.8↓ 2.5↑ 4.9↑ 3.5↓ 3.7↓ 0.9↓ 1.9↑ 4.8↑ 4.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Druridge 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 Amble 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

Druridge Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N round to SE; 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 ESESW
SE
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · 75 % reaches the beach
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 3 % reaches the beach

How Druridge Bay works

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

Seven miles of open beach; always somewhere working along it.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:24High4.1 m
  • Mon 05:06Low1.8 m
  • Mon 11:31High4.1 m
  • Mon 17:51Low2.3 m
  • Mon 23:56High4.2 m
  • Tue 06:35Low1.5 m
  • Tue 12:56High4.3 m
  • Tue 19:07Low2.0 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Druridge Bay beach - geograph.org.uk - 7339628 Beach at Chibburn Links, Druridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 6253939

Jim Barton, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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