Big open beach on the north side of the Thames Estuary with a very broad wind range (NE through SW). Best at low-to-mid water — avoid high tide when the beach shrinks and the walk out becomes impractical. Good for freeride, freestyle, and learning when the tide is right. The broad wind arc makes it a reliable fallback when other Thames-side spots don’t line up. School on site: Essex Kitesurf School.
Public-model blend: Met Office UKV 2km (direct), Met Office Global 10km (direct), AROME-FR, IFS-HRES, ICON, GFS (via Open-Meteo) and MET Norway, averaged across every model that covers each hour, out to day 7; temperature from the Met Office feeds
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Page rebuilt: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT Forecast data: 25 October 2026 15:30 GMT Tide data: 25 October 2026 16:20 GMT
📏 Tide heights — next 7 days(chart datum at Southend-On-Sea)
No measured beach/groyne height for this spot yet — log a beach report to add one.
🧭 Wind directions
Shoeburyness East Beach, faces ~S into the Thames estuary. Broad E-through-SW working range; NE is side-off (cross-offshore); N–NW is offshore over the land. Opposite side of the headland to Uncle Tom's, so a genuinely different working set.
green = works (brightest = side-on) · blue = cross-shore · orange = side-off / unproven (care) · red = offshore, never · grey = excluded locally
Next 7 days at East BeachBest of the week: Tue 27 Oct, ~20 kt around 06:00–09:00 BST (GOOD — the 9 m sweet spot) — very gusty (+15 kt), hard work, good kiters only. Also kiteable: Mon 26 Oct (~16 kt). AROME and UKV 2km agree (within ~5 kt) over the next 60 h — confidence good (lead model here: UKV 2km).
Windguru forecast
7-day forecast
Wind scale:<1010–1112–1314–1516–1920–2930+ kt ⚠
Public-model blend, for the full 7 days: The Met Office UKV 2km and Global 10km runs are read directly from the Met Office open-data feeds; AROME-FR 1.3km, IFS-HRES 9km, ICON and GFS come via Open-Meteo, plus MET Norway. Direction is a circular mean; gusts average only the models that publish an hourly-maximum gust. These numbers are raw model output with no coastal correction, so in the same weather they can read a little lighter than a coastally-corrected forecast — treat them as a floor rather than a ceiling. Temperature is from the Met Office runs (interpolated between 3-hourly steps on later days). No sea-state data is available. Tides from UKHO Admiralty (BST, 7-day window). The Windguru widget above is the unmodified Windguru forecast and is a useful cross-check.
Marginal — ~14 kt, big kites only. Peak ~14 kt WSW in the tide window. marginal — larger kites (14 m+) — most riders won't get planing; 15 m+/foil specialists only. ★ Gets dark at 17:53 — almost none of this window is in daylight.
Confidence: looking solid — 90% chance of 12 kt+ in the window · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
OK session — ~16 kt SW in the green window (16:00–17:51 BST). Working direction (SW) with ~16 kt for 6 h inside the tide window (15:15–21:00 BST around the low tide). an OK session on a 12 m — powered-down at the bottom end. ★ Gets dark at 17:51 — window trimmed to daylight (16:00–17:51 BST); the wind carries on past sunset if you are happy riding into dusk.
Confidence: looking solid — 80% chance of 15 kt+ in the window; 52% it reaches the 9–12 m sweet spot · Met Office ensemble, next 54 h
Best window detail — 15:17–16:43 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~16 kt in the low-tide window.
OK session — ~19 kt SSW in the green window (08:10–10:00 BST). Working direction (SSW) with ~19 kt for 6 h inside the tide window (05:00–10:15 BST around the low tide). an OK session on a 12 m — powered-down at the bottom end. SSW grades cross-onshore (side-on) here but is 5° off onshore — effectively the better of the two. Early-bird window (low water before 08:30) — fine if you can get there, but on the early side for most. ★ Light from 08:10 — the early part of this window is pre-dawn.
Best window detail — 06:42–10:13 BST (UKV 2km hourly)
Hourly UKV 2km wind for the 2-hour tide window (★) plus an hour either side, averaging ~18 kt in the low-tide window. Early-bird session — on the water near sunrise; allow ~2 h for the drive.
Pick a past day to compare three things: the forecast we published (frozen before each hour, never revised afterwards), the wind that actually happened (Open-Meteo reanalysis, hours 05:00–21:00 UK), and what the live weather stations near the spot actually recorded (amber, from 2 Aug 2026). You can go right up to today — today shows the forecast and the live stations; the reanalysis for today lands tomorrow morning.
Important: Forecasts are model-derived and may change. Always verify on Windguru and check local tide tables before you go. LKSA accepts no liability for decisions made based on this forecast.
