Overview

Crawfordsburn is a beach in Crawfordsburn Country Park, on the south shore of Belfast Lough. Facing north towards the lough, the beach offers sheltered conditions in northerly and northeasterly winds. Pleasant wooded setting in the nature park. Accessible from Belfast (20 min).

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Spot forecast for crawfordsburn

Sunrise 08:01 · Sunset 18:13

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< 7 kn7–12 kn13–20 kn21–30 kn31–40 kn41+ kn Gusts Your minimum: 7 kn

Next tides

High tide Tue 20 · 07:07 · 2.7 m
Low tide Tue 20 · 13:15 · 1.4 m
High tide Tue 20 · 19:23 · 3 m
Low tide Wed 21 · 02:02 · 1.1 m

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crawfordsburn: when to go?

Rideable days and hours computed for a minimum wind of 7 knots · log in to set your own (foil, twin-tip…)

Season · peak

189h

in July · 19.5 rideable days

The season runs from March to July, peaking in July: 16 rideable days a month and 189 hours of usable wind, at 15 °C. The low point is December, at 8 days.

Rideable days per month

Wind strength when it is rideable

7-12 knots · 78%13-20 knots · 21%21-30 knots · 1%

When the spot works, wind sits mostly between 7 and 12 knots — 78% of rideable hours. Big-kite territory. The coldest month is January, at 7 °C. The wettest month is October, with 108 mm.

Monthly averages: crawfordsburn

Monthly averages — crawfordsburn — averaged over 2 years of records — Weather data by Open-Meteo.com — How it is calculated
Month	Rideable days	Usable wind	Temperature	Rain
January	12.0	93 h	7 °C	77 mm
February	9.5	76 h	9 °C	70 mm
March	15.0	132 h	10 °C	106 mm
April	14.0	140 h	13 °C	105 mm
May	17.0	174 h	16 °C	54 mm
June	16.5	185 h	17 °C	80 mm
July	19.5	189 h	18 °C	78 mm
August	11.0	84 h	19 °C	72 mm
September	14.5	143 h	15 °C	97 mm
October	9.0	80 h	13 °C	108 mm
November	8.5	72 h	10 °C	101 mm
December	8.0	58 h	9 °C	95 mm

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Technical details of crawfordsburn spot

The spot works with winds from N, NNE, NE, WNW, NW, NNW.

Depending on conditions: ENE, E, W.

RideableDepending on conditions Not rideable

Spot opening date · Required level

Spot opening date: Open all year round
Required level: Intermediate

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George Best Belfast City Airport Airport11.3 kmsource aviationweather.gov

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