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Sandend

★★★★★Flat
Faces N low tide Offshore South East Best swell North East

Best of the week: Friday around 06:00, 2–4 ft and offshore.

Surf now0–1ft0.4 m at 5 s from the NW, wind sea 0.4 m from the SW
Wind9mphSW · cross-off · gusts 18
Tide 3.0mRising · high 18:50 (3.3 m). Works low tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0–1 ft Swell SW 3s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 3s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NW 7s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–5 ft Swell NE 6s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–4 ft Swell NE 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 4s Wind 14 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 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 3–4 3–5 4–6 4–5 3–5 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1
Swell 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 7s 3s 3s 3s 7s 3s 3s 3s 3s 4s 4s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s
Wind mph 13 15 15 17 18 13 8 8 10 12 8 9 10 10 11 10 15 15 15 11 5 15 16 12 15 12 14 15 17 17 15
Tide m 3.3↑ 3.0↑ 3.2↓ 2.3↓ 2.0↑ 2.9↑ 2.3↑ 3.5↑ 2.9↓ 1.8↓ 2.4↑ 1.6↑ 3.4↑ 3.4↓ 1.8↓ 1.8↑ 1.1↑ 3.0↑ 3.8↓ 2.1↓ 1.4↑ 0.8↑ 2.6↑ 4.0↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 0.7↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 2.9↓ 1.0↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sandend faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Buckie 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

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

NESWfaces NNWSW
NW
0.4 m at 5 s (swell) · 25 % reaches the beach
SW
0.4 m at 3 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sandend works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
South East is offshore.
Tide
low tide.
Getting there
In between Cullen and Portsoy.

One of the best surf spots in Moray

Tide times

  • Sun 18:50High3.3 m
  • Mon 01:36Low1.5 m
  • Mon 07:52High3.3 m
  • Mon 14:22Low1.9 m
  • Mon 20:15High3.4 m
  • Tue 03:11Low1.3 m
  • Tue 09:24High3.5 m
  • Tue 15:41Low1.7 m

Buckie station, 6 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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