When to surf where

Share of days in each month with surfable waves, averaged over the spots we have three years of wave-model data for. It shows what is typical, not what will happen. Open the interactive version to sort by the month you can travel.

Country	Best months	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Spots
Angola	May, Aug	3	9	4	13	30	22	20	28	11	9	7	7	4
Argentina	Aug to Sep	3	6	10	15	16	9	13	20	22	5	5	7	4
Brazil	Apr to Jun	10	12	12	17	19	16	14	14	13	9	11	8	32
Canada	May, Sep, Nov to Mar	44	46	43	34	39	27	9	17	38	33	36	43	5
Chile	Apr to Oct	46	50	60	67	76	82	70	77	65	64	50	46	4
Costa Rica	Jun, Sep	9	10	12	13	28	49	24	31	37	29	23	12	6
Ecuador	Mar to Jun	5	13	38	39	40	44	32	32	30	26	21	7	5
Fiji	Mar to May, Jul to Oct	35	31	51	64	52	45	49	51	60	52	31	40	5
France	Feb to Apr, Sep to Oct, Dec	29	40	53	40	30	22	7	11	50	44	39	41	10
Ghana	Jun to Aug	4	8	12	26	33	38	35	46	17	18	12	5	3
Indonesia	Apr to Oct	35	37	39	54	56	62	56	54	61	55	45	38	57
Ireland	Jan to Feb	43	45	24	22	12	11	2	9	30	32	27	30	7
Liberia	May to Jun, Aug	6	6	8	16	45	39	29	40	19	17	15	5	3
Mexico	May to Nov	19	20	26	31	36	44	45	45	45	43	40	22	7
Morocco	Nov to Mar	47	55	48	41	25	12	6	12	31	38	43	47	35
Mozambique	Apr, Jun to Sep	30	26	33	43	38	39	52	39	39	36	26	22	4
New Zealand	Mar to Oct	21	31	46	46	44	49	47	48	45	43	33	18	5
Papua New Guinea	Feb to Mar, Dec	8	13	13	4	0	0	3	1	2	3	3	14	4
Peru	Mar to Aug, Oct	23	26	34	32	33	35	35	31	25	32	26	24	13
Portugal	Mar to Apr, Sep to Dec	32	33	47	46	29	19	9	16	38	43	41	46	80
Puerto Rico	Nov	30	28	22	19	0	1	0	11	4	27	43	30	3
Réunion	Apr to Nov	28	33	25	44	50	49	45	41	48	40	38	36	3
Senegal	Nov to Feb	34	39	8	10	14	2	4	16	13	29	39	36	4
Sierra Leone	May to Jun, Aug	5	5	6	14	34	30	22	31	19	15	15	4	3
South Africa	Apr to Sep	29	25	29	38	45	46	47	42	40	34	31	26	20
Spain	Feb to Mar, Sep to Oct, Dec	35	54	43	39	27	21	6	14	46	42	40	41	130
United Kingdom	Nov to Mar	31	30	30	22	8	5	2	3	15	16	25	24	10
United States	Oct to Mar	32	31	26	20	21	19	15	18	20	26	28	34	41
Uruguay	Apr to May, Aug	3	9	8	24	25	17	15	21	18	6	11	11	3

Numbers are % of days with surfable waves. See the methodology for how they are calculated and what they miss.