Nigg Bay
★★★★★FlatSeven 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 | 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 0–1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 0 |
| Swell | 4s | 4s | 4s | 6s | 5s | 5s | 6s | 6s | 5s | 4s | 4s | 7s | 7s | 8s | 8s | 8s | 3s | 3s | 6s | 6s | 6s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 7s | 6s | 6s | 4s | 4s | 4s |
| Wind mph | 14 | 5 | 14 | 9 | 8 | 11 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 9 | 9 | 12 | 16 | 15 | 12 |
| Tide m | 3.0↑ | 2.4↑ | 3.5↑ | 3.0↓ | 2.0↓ | 2.4↑ | 1.6↑ | 3.1↑ | 3.6↓ | 2.3↓ | 1.8↑ | 1.0↑ | 2.6↑ | 3.9↑ | 2.7↓ | 1.5↑ | 0.8↓ | 1.9↑ | 3.9↑ | 3.2↓ | 1.4↓ | 0.9↓ | 1.3↑ | 3.7↑ | 3.7↓ | 1.5↓ | 1.3↓ | 0.9↑ | 3.4↑ | 4.0↓ | 1.8↓ |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Nigg Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Aberdeen 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
Nigg Bay faces east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.
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- 1.2 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %
How Nigg Bay works
- Swell
- Best from the south east.
- Wind
- East is offshore.
- Tide
- mid to high tide.
- Getting there
- just south of aberdeen
One of the best breaks on this strech of coast... nice wasy parking but bad water quality..
Tide times
- Sun 20:32High3.5 m
- Mon 03:06Low1.5 m
- Mon 09:37High3.5 m
- Mon 15:50Low1.9 m
- Mon 22:00High3.6 m
- Tue 04:37Low1.3 m
- Tue 11:06High3.7 m
- Tue 17:07Low1.7 m
Aberdeen station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Nearby
- AberdeenAberdeen · faces SW