Surfing in Mozambique in July

Surfing in Mozambique in July

July is the coldest water of the Mozambican year at 24°C, which is the least useful sentence anybody could write about this coast.

  • Water temp.
    24 °C
  • For learning
    Good
  • The month
    Excellent

Conditions in July

  • Water temp. : 24 °C
  • Wetsuit : Shorty or 2 mm

July is the middle of the season. The southern swell keeps arriving, the dry season holds, and the point works more days than it does in any other month.

The temperature line above is worth keeping precisely because it says nothing. Tofo's water runs between 23.5° and 28.2° across a full year: under five degrees, and enough to make the wetsuit question moot. In Ireland or France the calendar is a series of decisions about rubber. Here it is a series of decisions about swell, and nothing else moves enough to matter.

What does move is the light. This far south the winter day runs about eleven hours, sunrise around six and dark by half past five, which is plenty but not the endless evenings of the summer months.

Learning in July

  • For learning : Good

Peak season is not beginner season here. The beach still works small on the right days and a school will know which ones.

Where a beginner goes in July

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

For an experienced surfer

  • Surf : Excellent

The most reliable weeks of the year. If a trip has to be booked months out, book it into this window.

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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