J-Bay is the bay's own reading, three kilometres down from the point, over a mix of sand and reef. It wants a south swell with a west-north-westerly offshore, a different window from Supertubes, and that difference is what makes having both worth something.
It carries the strongest single figure on this coast: eighteen clean days out of thirty in June, nine blown out, two or three too small. Nothing else here manages that much clean water, and it is why a week in June is worth the water temperature.
Sharks and rocks are both named, and the sections here forgive more than the point without being gentle. An intermediate gets a good week; a beginner belongs in False Bay or on the Durban beachfront.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced
- Wave
- Right
- Bottom
- Mixed
- Water
- 17 – 21 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- SSE – SSW
- Ideal wind
- WNW
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●●○, Sharks, Rocks
Swell window, tide, level and hazards: surf-forecast and Surf Atlas.
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.