Surfing in Colombia in September

Surfing in Colombia in September

September keeps the whales and the swell, and it is the last full month of both.

  • Water temp.
    28 °C
  • For learning
    Off season
  • The month
    Very good

Conditions in September

  • Water temp. : 28 °C
  • Wetsuit : Shorty or 2 mm

September runs the same two seasons as August with the end of each in sight. The humpbacks are still in the bays and will leave through October, and the southern swell is arriving less often than it did in June and July.

For anybody choosing between the four whale months, September has an argument the others do not: the calves born in July and August are large enough to be active, and the boats out of Nuquí see more than they do at the start of the season. That is a better reason to prefer one week over another than anything the surf forecast will tell you here.

The point still gets its days when a swell lines up, and Pico de Loro is six months from its own best month and working whenever the wind allows, which in September it often does not.

Learning in September

  • For learning : Off season

No. The verdict has been the same for nine months and it is the same for the last three.

For an experienced surfer

  • Surf : Very good

The end of the season on both counts. Swell is thinning, and what is left has nobody on it.

Where these figures come from

Air, rain and sunshine: WMO / NOAA 1991-2020 normals for Agadir Al Massira, a station some twenty kilometres inland and so a little warmer than the coast in summer. Swell, period and share of workable wind: Swell Archive and surf-forecast. Water temperature: seatemperature.org and weather-and-climate. Crowds and prices are an editorial judgement, not a measurement.

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