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Robin Hood's Bay

★★★★★Flat
Reef break Faces E mid to high tide Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Friday around 13:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind14mphSW · offshore · gusts 25
Tide 4.6mFalling · low 05:51 (2.0 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 9s Wind 5 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 3s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Thu
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell N 7s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 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 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–3 2–4 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1
Swell 2s 2s 2s 2s 3s 2s 11s 9s 8s 7s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 6s 7s 7s
Wind mph 14 12 12 14 14 14 3 5 5 8 9 7 11 13 11 11 19 20 21 19 14 16 17 15 13 17 16 17 19 19 17
Tide m 4.6↑ 2.0↑ 3.3↑ 4.6↑ 3.8↓ 2.6↓ 2.1↓ 2.2↑ 4.3↑ 4.5↓ 2.8↓ 2.6↓ 1.5↑ 3.6↑ 5.1↓ 3.3↓ 3.3↓ 1.2↓ 2.8↑ 5.2↑ 4.0↓ 4.2↓ 1.2↓ 2.0↑ 5.1↑ 4.6↓ 4.9↓ 1.6↓ 1.4↑ 4.7↑ 5.1↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Robin Hood's 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 Whitby 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

Robin Hood's Bay faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from NE round to SE; 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 EWSW
W
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Robin Hood's Bay works

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

Rocky bay south of Whitby with reefs at either end; needs a solid NE swell.

Tide times

  • Sun 23:10High4.6 m
  • Mon 05:51Low2.0 m
  • Mon 12:16High4.6 m
  • Mon 18:36Low2.5 m
  • Tue 00:41High4.7 m
  • Tue 07:24Low1.8 m
  • Tue 13:42High4.8 m
  • Tue 19:56Low2.3 m

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

Photos

In the gallery
Robin Hood's Bay Coast, Yorkshire (250064) (9452580865) Robin Hood's Bay, from the beach - geograph.org.uk - 3658284

Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Peter Barr, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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