North Sea Surf

Detailed North Sea surf forecast maps and the latest eyeball surf report from local surfers in the region. Near-shore swell is shown on the map together with the surf forecast rating for spots in North Sea. Find the best places to surf in offshore conditions by selecting the wind option on the forecast map. Windsurfers and kite surfers can also use this option to find more favorable cross-shore conditions in North Sea. Our local Wavefinder indicates where some of the best conditions are likely to be found in North Sea over the next 7 days. Surf photos from North Sea and reviews of the best spots and surfing conditions have been provided by local surfers.

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North Sea Wavefinder

Long range 3-hourly Hourly

	Wednesday 08			Thursday 09			Friday 10			Saturday 11			Sunday 12			Monday 13			Tuesday 14			Wed
	AM	PM	Night	AM	Night	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	PM	PM	Night	AM	Night	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Bore South and West	Shitpipe Scot - North Coast	Thurso East Scot - North Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Filey Bay North East England	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Bunkers Jylland	Saviskaill Bay Scot - Orkney	Sango Bay Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Hellesto South and West	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Manorbier Wales - Pembrokeshire	Croyde Devon (North)	Duckpool Bay Cornwall (North)
Rating	4	4	2	1	3	7	8	0	0	1	3	4	1	4	3	3	4	3	2	2	2	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 W	1.9 W	1.2 W	1.3 SSE	3.0 S	4.0 W	4.0 WNW	1.0 SE	2.5 SE	0.1 N	1.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	0.3 NW	3.0 W	3.5 W	2.1 W	0.6 W	1.2 WNW	1.2 W	1.6 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period(s) (?)	14	13	12	6	9	15	16	7	7	18	12	12	12	13	11	10	11	10	10	10	11	11
Energy(?)	2340	1243	405	97	1890	6309	8300	173	632	6	600	574	44	2900	2740	918	87	299	312	551	455	376
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross- on	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	off	cross- off	off	cross- off	cross	off
High Tide / height (m)	12:59PM 4.00		1:18AM 2.35		2:00PM 3.77	2:17AM 3.90		3:11PM 2.49		8:45AM 3.14		7:40PM 1.86		3:22PM 5.32		6:17AM 4.16		7:06PM 4.24	7:06AM 4.45
Low Tide / height (m)			7:06PM 1.09	7:44AM 1.09		7:54PM 2.63	8:54AM 2.50		11:33PM 1.31		3:28PM 1.73					12:48PM 1.95		1:07AM 2.16
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	heavy rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	some clouds	rain shwrs	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	light rain	rain shwrs	some clouds	light rain	light rain	light rain	clear	clear	some clouds
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	-	11	3	-	-	5	2	1	-	2	1	12	-	1	1	2	-	-	-
High °C	9	11	11	10	7	5	7	6	6	8	7	6	7	6	6	7	7	6	7	9	8	11
Low °C	8	11	8	9	3	3	6	6	6	6	7	5	5	5	6	7	6	5	5	9	7	8
Chill °C (?)	7	9	9	8	1	1	5	2	0	5	3	2	5	1	1	3	3	4	4	5	5	11
Sunrise	6:20	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:16	-	-	6:09	-	-	-	-	-	6:05	-	-	6:03	-	-	6:24
Sunset	-	8:09	-	-	-	-	-	8:06	-	-	8:22	-	8:27	8:19	-	-	-	-	-	8:13	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.5 W	1.9 W	1.2 W	0.2 NNE	0.8 WNW	0.4 ESE	4.0 WNW	0.8 ESE	0.1 N	1.4 SE	1.3 WNW	1.3 WNW	0.3 NW	0.3 ESE	3.5 W	2.1 W	0.6 W	1.2 WNW	1.2 W	1.6 WSW	1.4 WSW	1.2 WSW
Period (s)	14	13	12	9	11	9	16	7	19	7	12	12	12	9	11	10	11	10	10	10	11	11
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 N	0.3 NNE	1.0 SE	-	0.5 WNW	-	0.4 ESE	0.1 N	-	0.1 N	0.3 WNW	0.3 WNW	0.2 W	0.1 NW	-	-	0.2 WSW	0.6 E	0.1 SE	-	-	-
Period (s)	10	9	7	-	13	-	9	19	-	18	19	16	6	10	-	-	7	8	8	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.4 SE	0.4 SW	1.3 SSE	3.0 S	4.0 W	-	1.0 SE	2.5 SE	-	1.5 SSW	2.3 SW	0.5 SW	3.0 W	-	1.3 S	1.7 SSE	-	0.9 N	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	7	3	6	9	15	-	7	7	-	7	8	6	13	-	5	6	-	4	-	-	-

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	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	7PM	10PM	1AM	4AM	7AM	10AM	1PM	4PM	8PM	11PM	2AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Broadhaven South Wales - Pembrokeshire	Trebarwith Strand Cornwall (North)	Shitpipe Scot - North Coast	Shitpipe Scot - North Coast	Brims Ness Scot - North Coast	Thurso East Scot - North Coast	Sele South and West	Sele South and West	Reve Havn South and West
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	1	1	3	4	2	4	7	7	8	8	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.2 W	2.1 W	2.2 W	1.9 W	1.9 W	2.4 W	2.3 W	2.0 W	1.0 W	1.1 SE	1.0 SE	1.4 W	1.9 W	1.9 W	2.2 WNW	4.0 W	4.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	1.6 W	1.7 W	1.8 W
Period(s) (?)	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	11	6	6	14	14	9	14	16	16	15	15	15	15	15
Energy(?)	1907	1579	1598	1073	1052	1584	1449	1012	279	137	75	913	1477	792	1715	8150	8300	7400	7148	1198	1263	1392
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	glass	cross- off	off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	-	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	high	mid-ebb	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow
High Tide / height (m)		12:59PM 4.00	1:03PM 2.32				1:13AM 4.10					4:43PM 1.92		11:44PM 5.57					3:31PM 3.65
Low Tide / height (m)					7:02PM 2.36				9:50AM 0.97	12:27PM 1.61							8:54AM 2.50				9:15PM 0.11
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	some clouds	some clouds	clear	clear	clear
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Temp. °C	9	11	8	8	10	10	10	9	7	10	10	8	6	7	7	3	6	7	7	4	4	4
Chill °C (?)	9	10	5	6	10	10	8	8	3	8	9	5	3	3	5	-2	2	5	4	4	2	0
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	6:16	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	8:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:09	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:38	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.2 W	2.1 W	2.2 W	1.9 W	1.9 W	2.4 W	2.3 W	2.0 W	0.8 SE	1.1 SE	1.0 SE	1.4 W	1.9 W	1.9 W	2.2 WNW	4.0 W	4.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	4.0 WNW	1.6 W	1.7 W	1.8 W
Period (s)	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	11	6	6	6	14	14	9	14	16	16	15	15	15	15	15
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.4 NNE	0.4 SE	0.4 NNE	0.4 NE	0.3 ESE	0.3 ENE	0.4 SE	0.4 NE	0.5 E	0.2 NNE	0.1 NE	1.0 ESE	1.1 ESE	0.8 WSW	-	0.4 ESE	0.4 ESE	0.3 ESE	-	0.7 S	0.5 S	0.4 SSE
Period (s)	10	7	10	9	6	9	6	9	8	9	9	8	8	14	-	9	9	9	-	7	7	6
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.0 W	1.0 S	0.8 SW	1.0 W	0.4 SW	-	-	-	-	-	0.3 ESE	-	-	-
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	11	5	4	7	4	-	-	-	-	-	8	-	-	-

	Wednesday 08																Thursday 09
	8AM	9AM	10AM	11AM	12PM	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	4AM	5AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Freswick Bay Scot - East Coast	Broadhaven South Wales - Pembrokeshire	Trebarwith Strand Cornwall (North)	Shitpipe Scot - North Coast	Shitpipe Scot - North Coast	Brims Ness Scot - North Coast	Thurso East Scot - North Coast	Sele South and West	Sele South and West	Reve Havn South and West
Rating	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	4	2	1	1	3	4	2	4	7	7	8	8	4	4	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.2 W	2.2 W	2.5 W	2.4 W	2.1 W	2.1 W	2.0 W	2.0 W	1.0 W	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	0.9 W	0.9 W	1.0 WSW	1.0 W	2.1 W	2.2 W	2.4 W	2.3 W	1.8 S	1.8 S	1.9 S
Period(s) (?)	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	6	6	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	12	7	7	7
Energy(?)	2007	1934	2340	2127	1626	1579	1415	1379	339	98	98	250	249	273	280	1256	1362	1615	1471	654	648	676
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross	cross	cross- on	cross	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross	cross- on	cross	cross	cross	cross	cross- off	on	glass	glass	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)						12:59PM 4.00			3:46PM 2.10										1:13AM 4.10	3:05AM 0.28
Low Tide / height (m)
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	clear	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	clear	clear	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	8	9	9	9	11	11	12	12	9	15	15	11	11	12	12	10	10	9	10	8	7	7
Chill °C (?)	6	7	7	7	11	10	10	12	6	13	13	9	9	11	12	10	10	8	9	3	2	2
Sunrise	6:22	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:07	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	2.2 W	2.2 W	2.5 W	2.4 W	2.1 W	2.1 W	2.0 W	2.0 W	1.0 W	0.4 NE	0.4 NE	0.9 SE	0.9 SE	1.0 WSW	1.0 W	2.1 W	2.2 W	2.4 W	2.3 W	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW
Period (s)	14	14	14	14	14	13	13	13	13	10	10	7	7	12	12	12	12	12	12	13	13	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.5 N	0.4 NNE	0.6 N	0.5 NNE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.4 SE	0.6 NNE	0.1 NE	-	-	0.9 W	0.9 W	0.3 SSW	-	0.3 ESE	0.3 ENE	0.4 NE	0.3 ENE	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW	0.7 WNW
Period (s)	10	10	10	10	7	7	7	10	9	-	-	12	12	8	-	6	9	9	9	13	13	13
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	1.1 SE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.8 S	1.8 S	1.9 S
Period (s)	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	6	6	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7	7	7

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