Machrihanish
★★★★★FairBest of the week: Thursday around 18:00, 4–6 ft and cross-off.
Seven days
best session each day · swipe| Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Time | 21 | 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 | 5–7 | 4–7 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 5–7 | 4–7 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 4–5 | 3–5 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 4–6 | 5–7 | 6–8 | 6–9 | 6–8 | 5–7 | 4–6 | 4–6 | 3–5 | 4–7 | 5–8 | 5–7 | 5–8 | 7–11 | 8–12 | 9–13 | 9–13 | 9–12 |
| Swell | 9s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 8s | 9s | 10s | 10s | 10s | 9s | 9s | 9s | 4s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 4s | 5s | 7s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s |
| Wind mph | 15 | 17 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 10 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 12 | 16 | 18 | 18 | 13 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 17 | 20 | 21 | 19 | 20 | 22 | 22 | 21 | 18 |
| Tide m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Machrihanish faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Machrihanish 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
Machrihanish faces west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from SW round to N; 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.
- W
- 1.5 m at 9 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
- SW
- 0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 96 % reaches the beach
How Machrihanish works
- Swell
- Best from the west.
- Wind
- Offshore is from the east; anything with west in it is onshore and messes it up.
- Tide
- all tides.
Kintyre's long west-facing beach; takes every Atlantic swell going.
Tide times
- Sun 21:18High
- Mon 02:23Low
- Mon 09:55High
- Mon 15:55Low
- Mon 22:56High
- Tue 03:28Low
- Tue 11:15High
- Tue 17:30Low
Machrihanish station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the gallery
Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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