Weligama Bay is a long sandy beach and most people's first Sri Lankan wave. A soft left that starts a long way inside, nothing underfoot, and surfable whatever the tide is doing: on a coast of reefs, it is the only one that can say that.
In January, four days of a week. Fewer than The Rock, but The Rock is not a wave you stand up on for the first time.
It is busy, and it is busy with people at your level: every school on the coast works this bay. A crowd of beginners is far easier to negotiate than a crowd of locals on a reef. The weak point is not the wave, it is the water quality of the bay itself.
Spot sheet
- Level
- Beginner, Intermediate
- Wave
- Left
- Bottom
- Mixed
- Water
- 28 – 30 °C
- Wetsuit
- Shorty
- Swell window
- SSW – WSW
- Ideal wind
- N
- How often it works
- Consistent
- Crowd
- ●●●●○
- Danger
- ●●○○○
A month in figures
In January, 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
- Water quality
Technical figures read off published surf guides. Where two disagree, the sheet says so.
Other spots in Weligama
See all spotsWhen this stops being enough, the step up is Main Point, in the same village.