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Vazon Bay

★★★★★Small
Beach break Faces NW all tides Offshore south-east Best swell north-west
Surf now1–2ft0.9 m at 9 s from the W, wind sea 0.2 m from the NE
Wind9mphNE · cross-off · gusts 10
Tide –No tide station near enough. Works all tides.

Seven days

best session each day · swipe
Sun
1–2 ft Swell W 9s Wind 9 mph ★★★★★
Mon
1–2 ft Swell W 9s Wind 4 mph ★★★★★
Tue
1–2 ft Swell W 8s Wind 8 mph ★★★★★
Wed
5–7 ft Swell N 5s Wind 28 mph ★★★★★
Thu
3–5 ft Swell N 4s Wind 26 mph ★★★★★
Fri
2–3 ft Swell W 5s Wind 30 mph ★★★★★
Sat
3–4 ft Swell W 6s Wind 20 mph ★★★★★
Sun 4 Mon 5 Tue 6 Wed 7 Thu 8 Fri 9 Sat 10
Time 21 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 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 1–2 2–3 2–4 4–6 5–7 5–7 3–5 3–5 3–5 3–4 2–4 1–2 1–2 1–3 2–3 2–3 3–4 2–4 2–3 2–3 2–3
Swell 9s 9s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 8s 7s 8s 3s 3s 4s 5s 5s 5s 4s 4s 4s 4s 4s 3s 4s 4s 5s 5s 6s 6s 6s 6s 7s
Wind mph 9 4 4 3 9 7 8 11 12 15 18 16 21 16 30 31 26 24 22 17 16 23 27 29 29 31 20 18 13 12 14
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Surf is the face height at the beach after the swell is filtered for the way Vazon Bay faces. Arrows point to where the swell and wind come from: an arrow pointing up means from the north. 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

Vazon Bay faces north-west. Measured from the seabed, it is open to swell from W round to NE; 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 NWWNE
W
0.9 m at 9 s (swell) · 50 % reaches the beach
NE
0.2 m at 2 s (wind sea) · 50 % reaches the beach

How Vazon Bay works

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

Guernsey's surf beach.

Photos

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Surfing in Vazon Bay (Unsplash) Surfing in Vazon Bay, Guernsey (Unsplash)

Enrapture Media enrapture, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Enrapture Media enrapture, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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