Spot guide
Ruggles is an SSE-facing reef break in Newport, Rhode Island, United States. It picks up swell from ESE to SW, and land, islands, reefs or shallow banks block about 57% of the directions it faces. Offshore wind here blows from the NNW: light winds or NNW breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SSE onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Reef
- Faces
- SSE (159°)
- Best swell
- ESE to SSW (120°–200°), 11 s or longer
- Best wind
- WNW to NNE offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 6–20 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- ESE to SW (119.5° to 215.5°)
- Offshore wind
- NNW
- Tide
- NOAA station 8452660
- Wave buoy
- Buzzards Bay, MA (260) · 24 km away
- Cams
- None yet
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