Spot guide
Bells Beach is an SE-facing reef break in Australia. It picks up swell from SSW to SW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 80% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NW: light winds or NW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SE onshores chop it up.
Rare slot: the Bass Strait lets in swell from 129.2° (SE) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 408 km out. How slot swells work
Rare slot: the Bass Strait lets in swell from 180° (S) and nothing either side. It only lines up when a storm sits in that exact direction, more than 290 km out. How slot swells work
- Break
- Reef
- Faces
- SE (145°)
- Best swell
- SSW to WSW (200°–240°), 11 s or longer
- Best wind
- W to N offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 4–12 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- SSW to SW (195° to 230°)
- Rare slot
- Bass Strait, 129.2° SE
- Rare slot
- Bass Strait, 180° S
- Offshore wind
- NW
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- None yet