Seaton
★★★★★SmallSeven days
best session each day · swipe| Sun 4 | Mon 5 | Tue 6 | Wed 7 | Thu 8 | Fri 9 | Sat 10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 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 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0–1 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 1–2 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 | 0–1 |
| Swell | 8s | 8s | 8s | 9s | 9s | 10s | 11s | 12s | 12s | 10s | 8s | 2s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 3s | 2s | 3s | 3s | 4s | 4s | 5s | 5s | 5s | 2s | 2s |
| Wind mph | 5 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 7 | 8 | 11 | 12 | 8 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 12 | 9 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 9 |
| Tide m | 2.6↑ | 2.1↓ | 2.1↑ | 2.9↑ | 3.2↓ | 2.3↓ | 2.6↓ | 1.9↑ | 2.4↑ | 3.3↑ | 2.9↓ | 3.2↓ | 1.8↓ | 1.9↑ | 3.1↑ | 3.5↓ | 3.6↑ | 2.1↓ | 1.4↑ | 2.8↑ | 3.9↑ | 3.8↑ | 2.6↓ | 0.9↑ | 2.3↑ | 4.0↑ | 3.8↑ | 3.2↓ | 0.7↓ | 1.7↑ | 3.9↑ |
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Seaton faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Lyme Regis 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
Seaton faces south. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from E round to SW; 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.
- SW
- 0.2 m at 8 s (swell) · 70 % reaches the beach
How Seaton works
- Swell
- Best from the south west.
- Wind
- Offshore is from the north; anything with south in it is onshore and messes it up.
- Tide
- mid to high tide.
- Getting there
- go the coast road past prt wrinkle head for looe next to downderry
when whitsand is huge & blown out head here for a class beach break heavy though breaks shallow.
Tide times
- Mon 01:43High3.0 m
- Mon 07:19Low1.9 m
- Mon 14:11High3.2 m
- Mon 20:27Low1.9 m
- Tue 03:45High3.0 m
- Tue 08:59Low1.8 m
- Tue 16:01High3.3 m
- Tue 21:52Low1.7 m
Lyme Regis station, 10 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.
Photos
In the gallery
Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Nearby
No other breaks within 40 km on the guide.