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Kimmeridge Bay

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SW mid to high tide Offshore north-east Best swell south-west
Surf now1–2ft0.4 m at 7 s from the SW
Wind5mphN · offshore · gusts 9
Tide 1.2mRising · high 02:36 (1.4 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SW 7s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell SW 8s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell SW 6s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell W 3s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell SW 5s Wind 9 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 2–3 2–4 3–5 4–6 4–7 3–4 2–4 2–3 1–3 1–2
Swell 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 6s 2s 3s 2s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 5s 3s
Wind mph 5 5 1 5 8 6 7 7 6 5 4 5 9 15 16 12 10 12 13 13 10 15 14 18 20 18 9 11 13 13 10
Tide m 1.1↑ 1.2↓ 1.2↑ 1.4↑ 1.6↑ 1.4↓ 1.4↓ 1.1↑ 1.3↑ 1.7↑ 1.6↓ 1.7↓ 1.0↓ 1.1↑ 1.7↑ 1.9↓ 1.9↑ 1.1↓ 0.8↑ 1.6↑ 2.1↑ 2.1↑ 1.4↓ 0.6↑ 1.3↑ 2.2↑ 2.1↑ 1.8↓ 0.4↓ 1.0↑ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Kimmeridge 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 Mupe 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

Kimmeridge Bay faces south-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SE round to W; 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 SWSW
SW
0.4 m at 7 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach

How Kimmeridge Bay works

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

Dorset's reef, long ledgy lefts and rights on a SW groundswell. Needs size.

Tide times

  • Mon 02:36High1.4 m
  • Mon 07:21Low1.2 m
  • Mon 15:02High1.6 m
  • Mon 23:34Low0.8 m
  • Tue 04:07High1.5 m
  • Tue 08:55Low1.1 m
  • Tue 16:19High1.7 m
  • Wed 00:35Low0.6 m

Mupe Bay station, 7 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
South West Coast Path at Kimmeridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 5406928 Coast path near Kimmeridge Bay - geograph.org.uk - 2895618

John Allan, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Philip Halling, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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