Weekly Belhaven Surf Update
Seven day weekly local forecast – starts back March 2025.
(please note forecasts can change – so if your keen to surf its always good to check links to see if the forecasts change)
Belhaven Bay Surf Forecast
Welcome to our surf forecast page. Belhaven is a perfect beach for beginners and provides great summer longboarding waves and surprisingly good autumn and winter waves for bodyboarding and shortboarding!
The East coast of Scotland faces the North Sea and can get surf generated from storms from the Arctic North, Scandinavia to the east and even Northern Europe from the South East.
As a smaller body of water than its neighbour the North Atlantic, we need low pressure systems to sit in the North Sea to generate the wind, that creates the energy to generate waves.
Being based in South East Scotland you soon find out that waves are not guaranteed every day but the consistency of small perfect beginner surf is high with two out of every three days being surfable for beginners through a typical season (1ft+). We can also have consistent excellent summer surf and also flat summer weeks, so it’s good to come with flexibility to enjoy flat day sports too. For the more advanced, we have a keen “frothing” local surf community on tap for the bigger swells that predominantly happen in the Autumn, Winter and Spring when the coastline provide fun waves for all levels and occasionally light up.
If you’re prepared to travel you can pretty much surf 365 days in Scotland, with the West and North coasts offering high quality surf and consistency all year round. Our surf camps are based on the west coast islands and north coast for exactly this reason, and benefit from some of the most consistent summer surf in Europe.
The Scottish Surf Community started in the 1960’s and has grown steadily but is still really well connected and in general very welcoming to newcomers and tourists a like. Scotland is a very special place to surf and if your lucky enough to score great waves or find amazing surf breaks on your travels its more important than ever to try and follow a digital “no trace policy” where you keep the stoke of your excellent surf experience as a wonderful memory rather than on social media sharing locations with the world.
Scotland has a lot of what’s really special in surfing with empty beaches and quality waves but this is increasingly rare world wide and it important to keep some of this magic for future generations.
These forecast links below can help your decisions. The information is very accurate and can really help you get good days for your level on the coast.
However it is important to pick surf days for your level and ignore opinion based websites. For beginners, surf in the 1-2ft region can be so good for learning, They are often downgraded on surf sites to “poor” or “no stars” on forecast sites but can actually are super fun to practice. They are also quieter on the coast. In reverse currently large number of surfers all arrive on the high star and “excellent” rated days which are often really good for advanced surfers but way to big for beginners and improvers and are also significantly busier as the whole surf community arrives on the same day.
We provide weekly updates through the season on this page for Belhaven and if you book into hires, lessons, courses, surf camps or become a Coast to Coast member we offer further insight’s on surf forecasting to help you pick the right days for you.
Surf, Tide & Weather Forecast Websites
Below, we have outlined various links we use to provide up to date local wind, tidal and surf forecasting data.
