Surfing in France in June

Surfing in France in June

June runs on a clock rather than a swell chart: offshore at dawn, blown out by lunch, surfable again in the evening.

  • Water temp.
    20 °C
  • For learning
    Excellent
  • The month
    Very good

Conditions in June

  • Water temp. : 20 °C
  • Wetsuit : 3/2 mm fullsuit

June is the first summer month and the first where the wind sets the timetable instead of the ocean. Land heats faster than sea, and the difference pulls a breeze onshore from the middle of the day. Mornings are glassy, afternoons are gone, and the wind drops again around seven.

The swell drops with the season. June averages waves a beginner can stand up in and an experienced surfer will find polite, and that is the trade the month makes: small, warm and dependable instead of big and rare.

The water is at 20°C and the light lasts past ten in the evening. Two sessions, dawn and dusk, with the whole middle of the day free for everything else a week here is for.

Learning in June

  • For learning : Excellent

Close to ideal. Warm water, forgiving waves, long days, and the beaches have not filled up yet.

Where a beginner goes in June

These spots are reachable all year. What the month changes is the size of the waves, not the access.

For an experienced surfer

  • Surf : Very good

Take the dawn and stop expecting more. June is a month for volume under the arm, and for the Basque points on the rare bigger day.

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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