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Filey

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E mid tide Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Thursday around 13:00, 4–6 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.1 m at 7 s from the NE, wind sea 0.1 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 19
Tide 4.9mRising · high 23:32 (4.9 m). Works mid tide.

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Open the Filey Bay (FileyCam) cam by FileyCam · Live view over the bay, beach and Brigg. Opens the provider's page in a new tab.

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Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 12s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell N 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 5s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 15 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 1–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–6 4–6 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2
Swell 7s 2s 2s 2s 2s 2s 12s 12s 9s 2s 6s 3s 3s 3s 4s 5s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 6s 6s 6s 6s
Wind mph 11 12 12 17 14 14 3 3 7 9 12 13 13 15 15 10 16 18 19 19 14 14 16 15 14 16 15 17 19 18 16
Tide m 4.9↑ 2.2↓ 3.3↑ 4.9↑ 4.3↓ 2.9↓ 2.3↓ 2.1↑ 4.3↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 2.9↓ 1.4↑ 3.4↑ 5.4↑ 3.8↓ 3.7↓ 1.1↓ 2.4↑ 5.3↑ 4.5↓ 4.6↓ 1.3↓ 1.5↑ 4.9↑ 5.1↓ 5.3↓ 1.9↓ 0.9↑ 4.3↑ 5.5↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Filey faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Filey 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. 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

Filey faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E 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 ENESW
NE
0.1 m at 7 s (swell) · 43 % reaches the beach
SW
0.1 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Filey works

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

Long sheltered bay under the Brigg; takes the same NE swell as Scarborough and holds a bit more size. Beach cams on the seafront.

Tide times

  • Sun 23:32High4.9 m
  • Mon 06:13Low2.2 m
  • Mon 12:38High4.9 m
  • Mon 18:56Low2.8 m
  • Tue 01:04High5.0 m
  • Tue 07:44Low1.8 m
  • Tue 14:07High5.1 m
  • Tue 20:14Low2.4 m

Filey Bay station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
Old timer on Filey Sands - geograph.org.uk - 5565011 Filey Sands - geograph.org.uk - 5705264

Neil Theasby, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Graham Robson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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