El Confital is a right over rock under the volcanic headland of La Isleta, at the northern end of the bay that Las Canteras curves along. It takes a westerly swell with an easterly offshore, works at every stage of the tide, and it is very consistent through the winter.
January is its month: twelve clean days out of thirty, four blown out, fourteen too small. On the days it is on, the right is shallow and fast, and it is a wave for advanced surfers and above.
It is often crowded, by the people who live five minutes away and surf it every good morning. Rocks line the take-off and the inside. If you are not sure whether you belong out there, the answer is to watch a set from the shore first: the wave tells you quickly.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Advanced, Expert
- Wave
- Right
- Bottom
- Mixed
- Water
- 18 – 23 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- WSW – WNW
- Ideal wind
- E
- How often it works
- Very consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●○○, Rocks
Swell window, tide, level and hazards: surf-forecast and Surf Atlas.
A month in figures
In January, the month the forecast guides single out for this coast:
Shares of the month, from the published forecast statistics. The model reads a grid, so neighbouring breaks share a figure: this describes a stretch of coast, not this wave on its own. The other eleven months are not published.
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Other spots in Gran Canaria
See all spotsOn the days this is too big, or for somebody starting out: La Cícer, in the same village.