Whiskey Point is twenty minutes north of the bay, and it is where a camp takes the people who are not ready for coral. A right that works at any tide, with nothing on the bottom to catch you.
September is its best month and the arithmetic is honest: one day in a week will bring swell with a wind that leaves it alone. Six more it will be too small. That is the east coast telling the truth about itself, a real season rather than a long one.
What does not move is the water at 28 °C and the fact that nobody is there. Too small for an experienced surfer is exactly the right size for a first week, which is why that figure reads backwards depending on who you are.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Right
- Bottom
- Point break
- Water
- 28 – 30 °C
- Wetsuit
- Shorty
- Swell window
- E – SE
- Ideal wind
- WSW
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●○○○○
- Danger
- ●○○○○
A month in figures
In September, 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
No guide names a hazard here. That is not the same as safe.
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.
Other spots in Arugam Bay
See all spotsWhen this stops being enough, the step up is Peanut Farm, in the same village.