Surfing in Mozambique in November

Conditions in November

Water temp. : 26 °C
Wetsuit : Shorty or 2 mm

November turns the weather. The first storms of the wet season arrive, the humidity comes up, and the cyclone season opens even though the serious risk is still two months away.

The surf follows the weather down. What reaches Tofo now is small and irregular, and the point spends most of the month flat. Praia Tofo, the beach in front of the village, keeps producing something on most days, which is what makes it the beginner's break here and the whole of the offer for the next four months.

The water has climbed back to 26°C and the village is quiet for a few more weeks. From the middle of December that changes completely, so November and early December are the last of the empty warm weeks before the South Africans arrive.

Learning in November

For learning : Very good

Warm, small and still quiet, which is a good combination for a first week if you accept that some days give you nothing.

Where a beginner goes in November

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

Praia Tofo
TofoBeginner

For an experienced surfer

Surf : Good

Little on offer. The season is over and the summer has not produced anything to replace it.

How November compares

All twelve months, side by side

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.