Addington is the south end of the Durban beachfront, a sand beach breaking left and right on an east-south-easterly swell with a south-westerly offshore, best around a rising low tide.
It is sheltered, fairly consistent and warm: this is the Indian Ocean, and the water here does not ask for the suit the Eastern Cape asks for. March is its month, with three clean days out of thirty, three blown out and twenty-four too small, and the small days are what a school runs on.
Sharks and jellyfish are both named, and this stretch is netted and lifeguarded, which is the local answer and not ours to give. It gets busy, because it is the beach of a city rather than of a village.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Sand
- Water
- 17 – 21 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- E – SE
- Ideal wind
- SW
- Best tide
- low tide
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●●○
A month in figures
In March, 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.