United Kingdom Surf Forecast

Surfing in United Kingdom

The United Kingdom has several separate surf coasts, and they rarely work on the same day. The South West takes the full Atlantic: Cornwall's Fistral is the country's best-known beach break and Porthleven its heaviest reef, while North Devon stacks Woolacombe, Croyde and Saunton around Baggy Point. Wales catches the same groundswell at Freshwater West and Newgale in Pembrokeshire, at Llangennith on Gower, and at Rest Bay in the Bristol Channel's enormous tidal range. On the other side of the country the North Sea works to its own rules - short-period, wind-driven, and best in a hard westerly offshore - from Tynemouth Longsands and Saltburn up to Bamburgh, under the castle walls, and north to Pease Bay. Further north still, Caithness holds the cold end of the list: Thurso East, a right-hand reef breaking over flagstone, and Brimms Ness a few miles west. SurfCheck covers all of it free - no paywall, no login. Tide is shown where we can model it honestly and left out where we cannot: sixteen of these breaks carry a full tide curve, and the rest show forecast, wind and swell with the tide row absent rather than guessed.