Umhlanga is twenty minutes up the coast from the city and a step up from it: beach and reef together, lefts and rights off both, on a south-easterly swell with a north-north-westerly offshore.
June gives twelve clean days out of thirty, eleven blown out and seven too small, which on this coast is a strong month. The rest of the year is reliable, and the water stays warm through all of it.
Four things are named here and they add up: rips, rocks, locals and sharks. The reefs are what make the wave and also what make it an intermediate's spot rather than a beginner's, and the line-up belongs to people who surf it every week. Addington is the beach for a first session; this is the one for the third.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Mixed
- Water
- 17 – 21 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- ESE – SSE
- Ideal wind
- NNW
- How often it works
- Consistent
- 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
- Rips and undertow
- Rocks
- Localism
- Sharks
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.