Supertubes is the section of the Jeffreys Bay point that made the place, a right running over reef and rock that keeps its shape the whole way. It takes a southwest swell with a west-south-westerly offshore, and it is very consistent, which is rare for a wave of this quality.
June is its month: sixteen clean days out of thirty, nine blown out, five too small. Set that beside the bay reading three kilometres south, which gives eighteen clean days on a south swell. One headland, two windows, and on the day one of them is shut the other can be open.
It fills as soon as it works, and the bottom is rock. Sharks are named here as they are all along this coast, and the local habit is to surf the busy hours rather than dawn alone. This is not a wave to meet a point on: the bay is where that happens.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Intermediate, Advanced, Expert
- Wave
- Right
- Bottom
- Point break
- Water
- 17 – 21 °C
- Wetsuit
- 4/3 mm → Shorty
- Swell window
- SSW – WSW
- Ideal wind
- WSW
- How often it works
- Very 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
- Sharks
- Rocks
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.