Cambutal is forty minutes round the peninsula from Venao, a stretch of beach and reef breaking left and right on a south swell with a northerly offshore, and surfable at every stage of the tide.
January gives twenty-four clean days out of thirty, two blown out and three too small: the same dry-season wind, one notch below Venao's December.
Its real difference is space. It very rarely gets crowded, which is rare enough on a coast with figures like these to be the reason to make the drive. No hazard is named here, and that is worth reading precisely: it means nobody has recorded one, not that there is nothing. The bottom mixes sand with reef sections, so ask where to paddle out before you decide it is a beach.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Mixed
- Swell window
- SSE – SSW
- Ideal wind
- N
- Best tide
- any tide
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●○○○○
- Danger
- ●○○○○
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.
What to watch for
No guide names a hazard here. That is not the same as safe.
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.