Hiriketiya Bay fits inside a three-hundred-metre horseshoe, and the shape does all the work. The two headlands wrap the swell, so the bay keeps a wave on the days the rest of the coast has shut: it is the fallback for the whole stretch, not just for the village.
It breaks both ways. The sand is on the right, and that is where the schools put their groups; further into the line-up there is rock.
Three hundred metres fills quickly. When it is on, the bay is busy, and that is the only fault of a place without many others.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left and right
- Bottom
- Sand
- Water
- 28 – 30 °C
- Wetsuit
- Shorty
- Swell window
- SSW – WSW
- Ideal wind
- NNE
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●●○○, Rocks
Swell window, tide, level and hazards: surf-forecast and Surf Atlas.
Conditions by month
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hiriketiya Bay | January : Excellent | February : Excellent | March : Very good | April : Very good | May : Off season | June : Off season | July : Off season | August : Off season | September : Off season | October : Very good | November : Very good | December : Very good |
- Good
- Very good
- Excellent
Surf camps around Hiriketiya
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Other spots in Hiriketiya
See all spotsWhen this stops being enough, the step up is Hiriketiya Left, in the same village.