Surfing in Senegal in June

Surfing in Senegal in June

June is small, warm and wet, and it is the month a first week works best.

  • Water temp.
    25 °C
  • For learning
    Excellent
  • The month
    Good

Conditions in June

  • Water temp. : 25 °C
  • Wetsuit : Shorty or 2 mm

June puts Senegal fully on its southern schedule. The swell is small, the south shore is where it lands, and the rains begin: the wet season runs from now until October and it arrives as afternoon storms rather than as days of grey.

For learning, the combination is close to ideal. Small waves on Yoff Beach, sand underneath, water past twenty-five degrees and no wetsuit decision to make. The schools run all through this and it is the cheapest half of the year to book.

For anybody chasing the reefs, this is the wrong end of the calendar and the country page says so. Ngor needs the North Atlantic, and the North Atlantic is asleep.

Learning in June

  • For learning : Excellent

The best month of the twelve to start. Small, warm, sand, and a school on the beach every morning.

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 : Good

Not the month. The reefs want winter and this is as far from winter as Dakar gets.

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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