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Seaton Sluice

★★★★★Flat
Beach break Faces E all tides Offshore west Best swell east

Best of the week: Friday around 12:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.1 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.2 m from the S
Wind10mphSW · offshore · gusts 17
Tide 4.0mFalling · low 05:11 (1.6 m). Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell S 2s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 13 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell N 7s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell N 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell N 7s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 7s Wind 23 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 22 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 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 3–4 4–6 4–6 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–3 1–2
Swell 2s 4s 5s 2s 3s 2s 7s 8s 6s 6s 6s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 3s 3s 5s 5s 6s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 7s 3s 3s
Wind mph 10 11 13 18 19 15 6 3 1 3 2 10 10 11 12 15 23 23 24 22 16 25 22 10 13 24 23 23 22 21 21
Tide m 4.0↑ 1.7↑ 3.2↑ 4.0↓ 3.0↓ 2.1↓ 1.5↓ 2.3↑ 4.1↑ 3.7↓ 2.1↓ 1.7↓ 1.4↑ 3.7↑ 4.3↓ 2.4↓ 2.2↓ 0.8↑ 3.0↑ 4.8↓ 3.0↓ 3.0↓ 0.6↓ 2.2↑ 4.9↑ 3.6↓ 3.7↓ 0.8↓ 1.5↑ 4.7↑ 4.2↓
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Seaton Sluice faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. Tide is the height at Blyth 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 Sluice faces east. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from N 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 ESES
SE
0.1 m at 5 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
S
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How Seaton Sluice works

Swell
Best from the east.
Wind
Offshore is from the west; anything with east in it is onshore and messes it up.
Tide
all tides.

Tide times

  • Sun 22:32High4.0 m
  • Mon 05:11Low1.6 m
  • Mon 11:32High4.1 m
  • Mon 18:02Low2.1 m
  • Tue 00:01High4.1 m
  • Tue 06:46Low1.4 m
  • Tue 12:55High4.2 m
  • Tue 19:20Low1.8 m

Blyth station, 4 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Seaton Sluice harbour - geograph.org.uk - 8117735 Seaton Sluice - geograph.org.uk - 8117731

Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Michael Garlick, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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