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Portrush East Strand

★★★★★Firing
Beach break Faces NE all tides Offshore south-west Best swell north-east

Best of the week: Tuesday around 06:00, 5–7 ft and offshore.

Surf now3–4ft1.2 m at 11 s from the NW, wind sea 0.5 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · offshore · gusts 20
Tide 0.9mFalling · low 22:01 (0.9 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
3–4 ft Swell NW 11s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
3–5 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 7 mph ★★★★★
Tue
5–7 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Wed
3–5 ft Swell NW 8s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–7 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell NW 5s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Sat
5–7 ft Swell W 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
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 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–4 3–5 4–6 5–7 4–7 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 4–5 4–6 5–7 4–7 3–5 4–5 3–5 2–4 1–2 2–3 2–4 2–3 2–4 4–6 5–7 6–9 7–10 7–11
Swell 11s 10s 10s 9s 10s 11s 10s 10s 10s 9s 9s 8s 8s 5s 6s 6s 9s 8s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 8s 4s 5s 6s 6s 6s 10s 10s
Wind mph 11 11 14 12 10 10 4 5 8 9 9 11 11 15 20 20 15 12 6 3 9 13 17 23 20 17 17 20 22 22 19
Tide m 0.9↓ 1.4↓ 1.1↓ 1.4↑ 1.9↑ 1.8↓ 1.6↓ 1.1↓ 1.1↑ 1.8↑ 2.0↓ 1.7↓ 1.1↓ 0.9↑ 1.7↑ 2.1↓ 1.8↓ 1.1↓ 0.7↑ 1.5↑ 2.2↑ 1.9↑ 1.3↓ 0.5↓ 1.2↑ 2.2↑ 2.0↑ 1.6↓ 0.5↓ 0.9↑ 2.1↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Portrush East Strand faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Portrush 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

Portrush East Strand faces north-east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to E; 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 NENWSW
NW
1.2 m at 11 s (swell) · 80 % reaches the beach
SW
0.5 m at 3 s (wind sea) · 1 % reaches the beach

How Portrush East Strand works

Swell
Best from the north-east.
Wind
Offshore is from the south-west; anything with north-east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

The north coast's main beach break; cams on the strand.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:01Low0.9 m
  • Mon 03:40High1.6 m
  • Mon 09:05Low1.1 m
  • Mon 16:32High1.9 m
  • Mon 23:04Low0.7 m
  • Tue 04:45High1.6 m
  • Tue 10:17Low1.0 m
  • Tue 17:14High2.0 m

Portrush station, 2 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Photos

In the gallery
East Strand, Portrush (48561364072) Surfers and bathers, East Strand, Portrush - geograph.org.uk - 5877506

john.purvis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Kenneth Allen, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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