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Roker Pier

★★★★★Flat
Faces E mid to high tide Offshore West Best swell North
Surf now0ft0.1 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind13mphSW · offshore · gusts 24
Tide 2.4mRising · high 22:33 (4.2 m). Works mid to high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 2s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell S 2s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0–1 ft Swell NE 2s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Wed
0–1 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Thu
0–1 ft Swell N 5s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Fri
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Sat
0–1 ft Swell N 7s Wind 18 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 0–1 0–1 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0–1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0–1 0–1 0 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 2s 2s 5s 2s 2s 2s 2s 7s 2s 2s 5s 5s 6s 8s 6s 5s 4s 5s 4s 6s 5s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 2s
Wind mph 12 7 9 11 16 13 3 5 4 3 2 8 9 9 11 13 16 16 15 15 12 17 13 8 12 19 18 18 17 18 18
Tide m 2.6↑ 1.9↑ 3.3↑ 4.2↓ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 1.7↓ 2.3↑ 4.2↑ 4.0↓ 2.3↓ 1.9↓ 1.4↑ 3.8↑ 4.6↓ 2.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.9↑ 3.1↑ 5.0↓ 3.2↓ 3.2↓ 0.7↓ 2.3↑ 5.1↑ 3.8↓ 4.0↓ 1.0↓ 1.6↑ 4.8↑ 4.3↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Roker Pier faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Sunderland 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

Roker Pier faces east. Swell inside the lit window reaches the beach; anything from behind the headlands scores nothing, however big the buoy says it is.

NESWfaces ESESW
SE
0.1 m at 5 s (swell) · 54 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Roker Pier works

Swell
Best from the north.
Wind
West is offshore.
Tide
mid to high tide.
Getting there
Again, follow the coast road in Sunderland going north. Past the marina on your right, Roker is the second pier.

A decent right is formed from swell building up against the pier. Jump in the water from the pier for a good laugh. Southerly cross-shore winds are blocked by the pier and can still result in a clean wave.

Tide times

  • Sun 16:21Low2.3 m
  • Sun 22:33High4.2 m
  • Mon 05:21Low1.8 m
  • Mon 11:39High4.2 m
  • Mon 18:05Low2.3 m
  • Tue 00:05High4.3 m
  • Tue 06:54Low1.6 m
  • Tue 13:08High4.4 m

Sunderland station, under 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

28 Mar 2005 · anon Just tried surfing the pier for the first time, waves looked good posssibly too big for myself (novice). The tide was dropping and i'v just found out a strong rip pulls back along the pier out to sea scary experience!!. im sure this is common knowledge but if not and you are as inexperienced as me take care.

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