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

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	Wed		Thursday 27			Friday 28			Saturday 29			Sunday 30			Monday 01			Tuesday 02			Wed
	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM	Night	AM	PM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Durlston South Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Llanddulas Breakwater Wales - North	Broadhaven South Wales - Pembrokeshire	Havik South and West	Polin Beach Scot - North Coast	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast	Torrisdale Bay Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Grim Ness Scot - Orkney	Sango Bay Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Brims Ness Scot - North Coast	Sandwood Bay Scot - North Coast
Rating	4	3	0	1	0	0	2	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	3	4	3	4	5	4	5	4
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	2.5 WSW	1.6 W	1.4 S	1.9 SW	2.3 S	3.0 SSW	-	3.0 WSW	3.5 W	3.0 N	3.0 N	2.0 N	1.8 N	2.0 N	1.7 N	1.3 N	2.2 ESE	1.8 W	1.8 W	2.5 W	2.3 W	3.0 W
Period(s) (?)	10	12	6	6	7	8	-	13	10	12	11	11	11	14	13	12	9	12	12	16	14	13
Energy(?)	1360	749	153	278	480	1161	0	3313	2632	2931	2136	1068	877	1589	1029	815	852	1104	1014	3020	2198	2754
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross	off	cross- on	cross	off	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross	cross- off	cross- off	off	cross- off
High Tide / height (m)		12:42AM 3.95		12:46PM 2.48	1:52AM 3.93		1:24PM 3.07		8:06AM 3.48		7:56PM 3.67	4:17AM 1.07	3:28PM 1.09	6:50PM 2.99	10:05AM 3.80		10:05PM 3.99	10:43AM 3.31		8:26PM 7.15	7:16AM 3.88
Low Tide / height (m)	5:55PM 0.85	6:19PM 2.02	6:13AM 1.24		7:19PM 2.09	7:29AM 1.13		8:29PM 2.07		1:45PM 1.92	2:29AM 1.35	10:39AM 0.58		12:56AM 0.82	3:29AM 1.17	3:50PM 1.55		4:18AM 0.42	2:23PM 0.51	3:00AM 0.63		3:29PM 0.80
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	mod. rain	heavy rain	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	clear	rain shwrs	some clouds	clear	some clouds	light rain	light rain	mod. rain	light rain	light rain	some clouds	clear	some clouds	some clouds
Rain (mm)	6	16	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	1	-	-	-	1	4	8	5	2	-	-	-	-
High °C	9	13	13	13	9	8	9	11	8	5	4	6	3	3	4	7	10	8	6	6	6	6
Low °C	9	9	12	13	7	8	9	7	7	5	4	5	3	1	4	6	8	6	5	5	5	5
Chill °C (?)	5	11	10	10	4	2	5	8	4	1	0	4	-1	-2	-2	3	6	4	2	3	4	5
Sunrise	-	-	8:14	-	-	8:15	-	-	8:48	-	-	8:37	-	-	8:38	-	-	8:42	-	-	8:41	-
Sunset	3:30	-	-	4:08	-	-	4:02	-	-	3:37	-	-	3:36	-	-	3:22	-	-	3:26	-	-	3:32
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.5 WNW	1.6 W	-	-	-	0.1 N	-	3.0 WSW	0.4 WNW	3.0 N	3.0 N	2.0 N	1.8 N	2.0 N	1.7 N	1.3 N	2.2 ESE	1.8 W	1.8 W	2.5 W	2.3 W	3.0 W
Period (s)	14	12	-	-	-	11	-	13	16	12	11	11	11	14	13	12	9	12	12	16	14	13
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.1 N	0.1 NE	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1.2 W	0.8 W	0.8 W	0.7 W	0.6 W	0.6 W	1.1 W	0.4 NNE	0.8 N	0.8 ESE	0.6 E	0.4 ESE	0.3 NNE
Period (s)	7	7	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	12	12	11	11	10	10	12	12	11	11	9	8	10
Wind waves (m) & direction	2.5 WSW	-	1.4 S	1.9 SW	2.3 S	3.0 SSW	2.5 WSW	-	3.5 W	-	-	0.3 ENE	-	-	1.5 SE	2.2 SSE	0.6 NW	-	-	0.7 SSE	1.1 S	1.1 SW
Period (s)	10	-	6	6	7	8	7	-	10	-	-	5	-	-	5	6	3	-	-	4	4	6

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	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM	9AM	12PM	3PM	6PM	9PM	0AM	3AM	6AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Caister-on-Sea East Anglia	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Melvich Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Brims Ness Scot - North Coast	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Durlston South Coast	Durlston South Coast	Shanklin (Hope Beach) Isle of Wight	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Stonehaven Scot - East Coast	Shanklin (Hope Beach) Isle of Wight	Llanddulas Breakwater Wales - North	Rhosneigr Wales - Anglesy	Castletown Isle of Man
Rating	1	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	3	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 N	1.9 W	1.8 W	1.9 W	1.5 W	1.5 W	1.7 W	1.5 W	1.5 S	1.2 SSE	2.0 S	1.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.3 WSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.1 SSW	2.2 WSW	1.8 W	1.3 SW	1.0 SSW
Period(s) (?)	7	9	13	12	12	12	11	11	6	6	6	6	6	6	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	6
Energy(?)	71	1318	1105	1058	641	613	699	538	162	117	298	190	149	165	1161	1008	771	687	789	286	213	71
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	cross- off	off	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	off	off	cross- off	cross- off	off
Tide State(?)	-	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-flow	high	mid-ebb	mid-flow	high	high	high	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	mid-ebb	low	mid-flow	high
High Tide / height (m)					12:42AM 3.95					5:43PM 3.67			12:08AM 0.96	4:14AM 3.07	6:56AM 3.42							5:37AM 4.15
Low Tide / height (m)			6:07PM 0.97				6:07AM 1.26						2:38AM 0.84				12:32PM 1.96			10:58PM 1.85
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	some clouds	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	clear	some clouds	clear	cloudy	some clouds	cloudy	cloudy	some clouds	light rain	some clouds	cloudy	heavy rain	mod. rain
Rain (mm)	-	1	4	2	2	1	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	22	6
Temp. °C	6	9	8	9	11	10	12	12	13	11	9	12	10	11	8	8	7	7	10	8	7	6
Chill °C (?)	3	7	8	7	9	9	10	10	10	8	4	10	7	8	2	2	1	4	7	5	6	3
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:30	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	8:15	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Sunset	3:45	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3:36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	3:34	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 NE	1.9 W	1.8 W	1.9 W	1.5 W	1.5 W	1.7 W	1.5 W	0.1 N	1.2 SSE	0.1 N	-	-	0.4 SSE	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.1 NE	1.6 S	0.9 WSW	-	1.3 SW	1.0 SSW
Period (s)	6	9	13	12	12	12	11	11	9	6	9	-	-	4	11	11	14	7	15	-	7	6
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 N	0.8 WNW	0.1 SE	0.1 N	0.1 NE	0.2 N	0.2 N	0.2 N	-	-	-	-	-	0.1 SW	-	0.1 N	0.2 N	0.1 N	-	-	0.8 WNW	0.4 W
Period (s)	7	13	7	9	9	8	8	8	-	-	-	-	-	22	-	14	10	14	-	-	5	4
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	1.6 W	-	-	-	-	-	0.6 S	1.5 S	1.1 SW	2.0 S	1.6 SW	1.4 SW	1.3 WSW	3.0 SSW	3.0 SSW	2.5 SSW	2.1 SSW	2.2 WSW	1.8 W	-	0.3 ENE
Period (s)	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	3	6	5	6	6	6	6	8	8	7	7	7	7	-	2

	Wednesday 26											Thursday 27
	1PM	2PM	3PM	4PM	5PM	6PM	7PM	8PM	9PM	10PM	11PM	0AM	1AM	2AM	3AM	4AM	5AM	6AM	7AM	8AM	9AM	10AM
Best forecast wave conditions in North Sea	Caister-on-Sea East Anglia	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Melvich Scot - North Coast	Birsay Bay Scot - Orkney	Brims Ness Scot - North Coast	Bay of Skaill Scot - Orkney	Armadale Bay Scot - North Coast	Thurso Reef Scot - North Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Durlston South Coast	Durlston South Coast	Shanklin (Hope Beach) Isle of Wight	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Aberdeen Scot - East Coast	Stonehaven Scot - East Coast	Shanklin (Hope Beach) Isle of Wight	Llanddulas Breakwater Wales - North	Rhosneigr Wales - Anglesy	Castletown Isle of Man
Rating	1	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	0	0	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3	3	2	2	1
Wave Height (m) & direction (?)	0.6 N	1.5 W	2.0 W	2.5 WSW	1.9 W	2.4 W	1.9 W	1.6 W	1.4 S	1.4 S	1.4 S	-	-	1.7 WSW	1.5 S	1.5 S	1.5 S	0.9 SSE	1.6 WSW	-	2.4 SW	2.4 SSW
Period(s) (?)	7	9	10	10	9	9	9	9	6	6	6	-	-	6	6	6	6	6	6	-	7	7
Energy(?)	72	452	858	1360	812	1573	831	724	139	144	149	0	0	211	171	177	177	66	190	0	606	558
Wind (km/h)
Wind State(?)	off	off	cross- off	cross	cross- off	cross- on	glass	glass	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- off	cross- on	cross- on
High Tide / height (m)												11:10PM 1.02						5:42AM 2.64
Low Tide / height (m)																						9:23AM 1.73
Weather Advanced Surf Forecast

Summary	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	light rain	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy	cloudy
Rain (mm)	-	-	1	1	1	1	1	1	-	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
High °C	6	8	8	10	9	9	9	8	9	10	10	12	12	12	12	11	11	12	13	13	13	13
Chill °C (?)	3	4	4	6	6	6	9	8	6	7	7	9	9	9	10	8	8	9	10	11	10	10
Sunrise	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	7:58	8:02	-
Sunset	-	-	3:36	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Swell1 (m) & direction	0.6 NE	1.5 W	0.5 WNW	0.5 WNW	1.9 W	2.4 W	1.9 W	1.6 W	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 N	-	-	-	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.9 SSE	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	6	9	14	14	9	9	9	9	6	6	8	-	-	-	7	7	7	6	-	-	-	-
Swell2 (m) & direction	0.6 N	0.4 WNW	0.2 N	0.1 N	0.7 WNW	0.6 WNW	0.8 WNW	0.9 WNW	0.1 N	0.1 N	0.1 E	-	-	-	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 E	0.1 N	-	-	-	-
Period (s)	7	14	7	7	14	14	14	13	7	7	6	-	-	-	6	6	6	7	-	-	-	-
Wind waves (m) & direction	-	0.9 SSW	2.0 W	2.5 WSW	0.7 S	1.6 W	-	-	1.4 S	1.4 S	1.4 S	1.6 SW	1.6 SW	1.7 WSW	1.5 S	1.5 S	1.5 S	0.8 SW	1.6 WSW	1.4 SW	2.4 SW	2.4 SSW
Period (s)	-	4	10	10	4	10	-	-	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	6	4	6	6	7	7

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