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Dunnet Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces NW all tides Offshore South East Best swell North West

Best of the week: Wednesday around 06:00, 5–8 ft and cross-off.

Surf now6–9ft2.1 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 1.1 m from the W
Wind15mphSW · cross-on · gusts 26
Tide 3.5mRising · high 16:38 (3.5 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
7–10 ft Swell W 10s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
7–11 ft Swell W 10s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
8–11 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–8 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell – Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0 ft Swell – Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell – Wind 9 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 7–10 7–11 8–12 9–13 10–14 14–20 9–12 8–11 7–10 7–10 6–9 5–8 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 10s 6s 8s 8s 7s 10s 9s 9s 9s 9s 8s – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – –
Wind mph 14 17 18 19 24 15 12 10 14 12 9 8 9 11 9 8 15 15 13 9 4 16 20 15 14 9 9 12 16 17 15
Tide m 3.4↓ 3.5↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↑ 3.0↑ 3.7↑ 3.6↑ 3.3↓ 2.2↓ 2.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.3↑ 3.7↓ 2.2↓ 2.0↑ 3.5↑ 2.9↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.6↑ 3.1↑ 2.4↑ 4.1↑ 2.8↓ 1.3↓ 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 4.0↑ 3.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Dunnet Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Gills Bay 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. Hours no model reaches are left blank, not shown as flat.

Exposure

Dunnet Bay 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 NWWW
W
2.1 m at 10 s (swell) · 96 % reaches the beach
W
1.1 m at 4 s (wind sea) · 56 % reaches the beach

How Dunnet Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
all tides.
Getting there
Dunnet is between Thurso ans John o Groats on the a836

Miles of NW facing Beaches Picks up most swell in the area but easily effected by W winds.. Look for the secrect reef around here.

Tide times

  • Sun 16:38High3.5 m
  • Sun 23:04Low1.9 m
  • Mon 05:55High3.5 m
  • Mon 11:48Low2.3 m
  • Mon 18:15High3.7 m
  • Tue 00:30Low1.7 m
  • Tue 07:08High3.7 m
  • Tue 13:00Low2.1 m

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

Comments

1 Jan 2010 · eightlegged A lot more mellow than it's sister break across the river. Holds a mellow left and a quite full on right. can be hard to get the tide right as it works on Low-mid through to Mid-High.. hard window to catch!

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