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Sandside Bay

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces NE high tide Offshore South West Best swell North West

Best of the week: Thursday around 19:00, 3–4 ft and cross-on.

Surf now0ft2.0 m at 10 s from the W, wind sea 1.0 m from the W
Wind12mphSW · offshore · gusts 22
Tide 3.6mFalling · low 22:26 (1.7 m). Works high tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell W 10s Wind 12 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0 ft Swell NW 10s Wind 17 mph ★★★★★
Tue
0 ft Swell NW 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Wed
2–3 ft Swell W 7s Wind 15 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–4 ft Swell N 6s Wind 3 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 4s Wind 19 mph ★★★★★
Sat
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 19 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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–3 3–5 2–3 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 2–3 0–1 1–2 0 0 0 0
Swell 10s 10s 7s 7s 8s 12s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 9s 7s 8s 8s 8s 5s 7s 6s 6s 6s 7s 7s 4s 5s 5s 8s 6s 7s 8s 8s
Wind mph 13 17 16 21 22 16 9 9 11 14 15 14 15 14 15 14 18 15 12 9 4 19 20 17 20 19 18 20 23 24 25
Tide m 3.2↓ 3.5↓ 2.5↓ 2.2↑ 3.3↑ 3.8↓ 3.9↑ 3.0↓ 1.9↓ 2.7↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↑ 3.6↓ 1.8↓ 2.1↑ 4.0↑ 3.6↑ 4.1↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↑ 3.7↑ 3.1↑ 4.5↓ 2.5↓ 1.1↑ 3.2↑ 2.4↑ 4.6↑ 3.0↓ 1.0↓ 2.6↑
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Sandside Bay faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at Scrabster 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

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

NESWfaces NEWW
W
2.0 m at 10 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
W
1.0 m at 4 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Sandside Bay works

Swell
Best from the north west.
Wind
South West is offshore.
Tide
high tide.
Getting there
Drive past dounreay on the a836 follow signs to sandside bay.

Classic Left Hnaders of Massive swells.. offshore on Big Westely winds.. Beware the WARNING ABOUT NUCLEAR DEBRIS BEING FOUND ON THIS BEACH..

Tide times

  • Sun 22:26Low1.7 m
  • Mon 04:51High3.7 m
  • Mon 11:04Low2.1 m
  • Mon 17:22High3.8 m
  • Mon 23:52Low1.5 m
  • Tue 06:14High3.9 m
  • Tue 12:23Low1.9 m
  • Tue 18:31High4.1 m

Scrabster station, 15 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

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