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Newbiggin by the Sea

★★★★★Small
Reef break Faces SE low to mid tide Offshore North West Best swell South East
Surf now0–1ft0.2 m at 4 s from the SE, wind sea 0.3 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · cross-off · gusts 20
Tide 2.1mRising · high 22:32 (4.0 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell SE 4s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell N 2s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Fri
0–1 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 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 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Swell 2s 4s 5s 3s 3s 3s 2s 6s 2s 2s 5s 5s 8s 8s 8s 8s 3s 3s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s
Wind mph 14 12 12 17 20 16 4 3 3 3 6 8 9 12 12 12 19 20 22 20 14 23 20 10 11 19 16 18 20 19 17
Tide m 2.4↑ 1.7↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↓ 3.0↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↓ 2.3↑ 4.1↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↓ 1.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.3↓ 2.4↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.0↑ 4.8↓ 3.0↓ 3.0↓ 0.6↓ 2.2↑ 4.9↑ 3.6↓ 3.7↓ 0.8↓ 1.5↑ 4.7↑ 4.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Newbiggin by the Sea faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Blyth 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 Wednesday 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

Newbiggin by the Sea faces south-east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces SESESW
SE
0.2 m at 4 s (swell) · 100 % reaches the beach
SW
0.3 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Newbiggin by the Sea works

Swell
Best from the south east.
Wind
North West is offshore.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Head towards Newcastle on A1 or A19 then head towards Morpeth then take the coastal route and it is sign posted Newbiggin.

A left reef break near the church (other side of the brig) and a small beach break in the bay. Great Shelter on N-NW winds but needs a big swell to work. Surfed the left this week had it to myself, walked across teh brig and jumped off the end then paddled around. Really nice left that I can see could have potential, looks like a bad rip in the bay.

Tide times

  • Sun 16:15Low2.1 m
  • Sun 22:32High4.0 m
  • Mon 05:11Low1.6 m
  • Mon 11:32High4.1 m
  • Mon 18:02Low2.1 m
  • Tue 00:01High4.1 m
  • Tue 06:46Low1.4 m
  • Tue 12:55High4.2 m

Blyth station, 8 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

28 May 2005 · mick The bay is perfect on big messy days as it is sheltered they come rolling in from way back. best surfed when the tides coming in as at high tide its hairy getting in or out.
17 May 2005 · Ste Newbiggin rocks
2 Mar 2005 · danny rarely works, fickle, shallow, rocky, seaward rips

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