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South Shields

★★★★★Flat
Faces NE low to mid tide Offshore West Best swell North East

Best of the week: Friday around 10:00, 3–5 ft and offshore.

Surf now0ft0.2 m at 5 s from the SE, wind sea 0.2 m from the SW
Wind11mphSW · offshore · gusts 23
Tide 2.2mRising · high 22:37 (4.1 m). Works low to mid tide.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
0 ft Swell SE 5s Wind 11 mph ★★★★★
Mon
0–1 ft Swell W 3s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell NE 2s Wind 6 mph ★★★★★
Wed
1–2 ft Swell NE 5s Wind 10 mph ★★★★★
Thu
4–6 ft Swell N 6s Wind 14 mph ★★★★★
Fri
3–5 ft Swell N 7s Wind 16 mph ★★★★★
Sat
2–3 ft Swell N 6s Wind 25 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 0–1 0 1–2 1–2 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 0–1 1–2 2–3 3–4 4–5 4–6 4–6 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–3 2–3 2–3 1–2 1–2
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Wind mph 9 10 11 15 16 13 6 3 3 3 1 10 11 9 12 16 23 22 23 21 16 24 19 12 15 25 25 25 23 23 24
Tide m 2.5↑ 1.7↑ 3.2↑ 4.1↓ 3.1↓ 2.2↓ 1.6↓ 2.2↑ 4.1↑ 3.9↓ 2.2↓ 1.8↓ 1.3↑ 3.7↑ 4.5↓ 2.6↓ 2.4↓ 0.8↑ 2.9↑ 4.8↓ 3.1↓ 3.2↓ 0.7↓ 2.2↑ 4.9↑ 3.7↓ 3.9↓ 1.0↓ 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 South Shields faces. Arrows show where the swell and wind are heading. Tide is the height at River Tyne (North Shields) 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

South Shields 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 NESESW
SE
0.2 m at 5 s (swell) · blocked, 0 %
SW
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · blocked, 0 %

How South Shields works

Swell
Best from the north east.
Wind
West is offshore.
Tide
low to mid tide.
Getting there
Head north from Whitburn on the coast road and turn right to the tennis courts and skate park etc. loads of parking

Several Peaks that can produce fast walling barrels if the sand banks are right, can hold up to about six foot or more on the right conditions, uncrowded on weekdays. Works at all stages of the tide but best mid to low.

Tide times

  • Sun 16:26Low2.2 m
  • Sun 22:37High4.1 m
  • Mon 05:24Low1.7 m
  • Mon 11:44High4.1 m
  • Mon 18:10Low2.2 m
  • Tue 00:09High4.2 m
  • Tue 06:54Low1.4 m
  • Tue 13:09High4.3 m

River Tyne (North Shields) station, 1 km away. Heights above chart datum, UK time.

Comments

28 Aug 2005 · fydo normally a good swell at trow. you'll meet some real gnarly guys at trow there ill you'll have a gr8 time if the surfs hot.

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