Muizenberg is where South Africa learns to surf. A long sand-bottomed beach break in False Bay, breaking left and right, on a south-easterly swell with a north-westerly offshore, and nothing hard underneath.
The numbers only make sense once you see who they are for. June, its best month, is clean one day out of thirty and too small for twenty-seven. Too small is what a school needs, and it is the reason the surf schools of an entire city sit within a few hundred metres of each other at Surfer's Corner.
It gets crowded, in summer especially and at the corner especially. Sharks are named here, and Muizenberg is the beach that handles that in the open: spotters watch from the hill and fly a flag anyone on the sand can read. The water is cold enough for a full suit most of the year and a 4/3 in winter.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Sand
- Water
- 17 – 21 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- ESE – SSE
- Ideal wind
- NW
- How often it works
- Inconsistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●●○
A month in figures
In June, 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
- Sharks
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.
Other spots in Cape Town
See all spotsWhen this stops being enough, the step up is Kalk Bay Reef, in the same village.