Ngor Rights breaks off the channel beside Ngor island at the northern tip of the peninsula, a right over reef taking north-west swell with a south-easterly offshore. It is filed consistent and it works at every stage of the tide.
Its best month is September, and the figure is the one to carry around this country: seven clean days out of thirty, thirteen blown out, ten too small. That is the highest share at any Senegalese break in this survey. The wind is the whole story here, and even at its kindest it takes three weeks of the month.
The swell season is not September, though. North-west swell is a North Atlantic winter product, so the wave itself is at its biggest from November to March, on colder water and with the same wind problem.
Urchins and rocks are both named, and the entry over reef is what keeps this off a beginner's list whatever the difficulty rating says. Yoff Beach is ten minutes east and is where a first week belongs.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced
- Wave
- Right
- Bottom
- Reef
- Water
- 19 – 29 °C
- Wetsuit
- 3/2 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- WNW – NNW
- Ideal wind
- SE
- Best tide
- any tide
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●○○
A month in figures
In September, 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
- Sea urchins
- Rocks
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.