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New Zealand (6)Australia
- Water
- Chop
- Best season
- Dec–Mar
Adelaide's metropolitan beaches on Gulf St Vincent. Seacliff in the south has conditions from shallow flat water to mild waves, and Largs Bay in the north…
Augusta Western Australia- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Nov–Mar
Smooth, flat water behind the sandbar at Augusta in the Margaret River region, three hours south of Perth, where the wind blows towards the waves and reefs from…
Brisbane – Brighton & Wellington Point Queensland- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Sep–Apr
Brisbane's bayside spots on Moreton Bay, such as the small man-made kite beach at Brighton and Wellington Point, with tidal sand flats that give flat, shallow…
Byron Bay New South Wales- Water
- Waves
- Best season
- Sep–Feb
The surf town at Australia's easternmost point, with gentle waves to solid swell for intermediate and advanced riders. The prevailing wind blows 12–20 knots…
Cairns – Yorkeys Knob Queensland- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Jun–Sep
A beach north of Cairns in tropical Queensland with a strip reserved for wind and kitesurfing. The south to south-easterly trade wind blows 12–20 knots…
Coronation Beach Western Australia- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Nov–Mar
North of Geraldton on the Western Australian coast, one of the windiest places in the world: in summer be prepared to rig your smallest kite. Good flat water…
1 center · Lessons, Rental Esperance Western Australia- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
A town on Western Australia's remote south coast with big waves, strong currents and rips. Fourth Mile Beach is the most ridden spot in the usual east to…
Exmouth – Sandy Bay Western Australia- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- May–Oct
From May to October the wind season moves to the north of Western Australia, 1,600 km from Perth, where Sandy Bay and Graveyards north of Exmouth are the two…
Gnaraloo Western Australia- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Sep–Apr
A remote station on the Ningaloo coast north of Carnarvon, famous for its reef breaks. The clean south-westerly blows 15–25 knots from September to April; in…
Gold Coast – Broadwater Queensland- Water
- Flat water
The sheltered Broadwater behind the Gold Coast's surf beaches is where the region's foil schools teach wing foiling, from first lessons to advanced coaching.
3 centers · Lessons Hervey Bay Queensland- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Sep–Apr
A sheltered bay behind K'gari (Fraser Island) with several beginner spots, from Toogoom to the Urangan Pier. A sandbar just offshore keeps the water shallow and…
Inverloch – Anderson Inlet Victoria- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
A shallow inlet in South Gippsland, two hours from Melbourne, separated from the ocean by a bush-covered sandbar. At high tide the sand banks flood into a large…
Jervis Bay New South Wales- Water
- Chop
- Best season
- Oct–Apr
A large, sheltered bay with famously clear water on the New South Wales South Coast, three hours from Sydney. The summer north-easterly sea breeze averages…
Lancelin
Western Australia
- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
An hour north of Perth, with a flat lagoon inside the reef and clean waves on the outside, worked by the same reliable summer sea breeze at 15–30 knots. It has…
Melbourne – Port Phillip Bay
Victoria
- Water
- Chop
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
The bay beaches from St Kilda to Brighton and Sandringham get a summer sea breeze from the south and frontal winds the rest of the year, over cool, choppy water…
4 centers · Lessons, Rental Old Bar New South Wales- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
A silky-smooth, crystal-clear flat-water spot on the New South Wales coast three hours north of Sydney and 15 minutes from Taree, with lagoons, sand flats and…
Perth – Woodman Point & Swan River Western Australia- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Nov–Mar
Perth's summer spots in the Fremantle Doctor, the famously consistent afternoon sea breeze of 15–25 knots from November to March. Woodman Point is protected…
Port Douglas – Four Mile Beach Queensland- Water
- Chop
- Best season
- May–Nov
Four Mile Beach at Port Douglas, an hour from Cairns beside the Great Barrier Reef, is over 6 km of sand swept by thermal winds that follow the monsoonal…
Safety Bay
Perth, Western Australia
- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Nov–Mar
South of Perth, the afternoon sea breeze known as the Fremantle Doctor blows 15–25 knots through the summer over the Pond, a shallow, flat sandbank sheltered by…
2 centers · Lessons, Rental Shark Bay – Denham Western Australia- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Mar–Apr · Sep–Nov
Heaps of small, butter-flat lagoons and super consistent wind around Denham on the World Heritage coast 800 km north of Perth, with a good chance of having the…
Sunshine Coast – Noosa & Maroochydore Queensland- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Sep–Apr
Queensland's Sunshine Coast north of Brisbane. At Cotton Tree in Maroochydore the north-easterly sea breeze averages 15–25 knots over warm, shallow water in the…
Sydney – Botany Bay New South Wales- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Sep–Mar
Sydney's flat-water spots on Botany Bay, from Brighton-Le-Sands and Dolls Point on the west shore to Kurnell on the south side. The summer north-easterly and…
Tasmania – Stanley Tasmania- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
A small town on Tasmania's north-west coast below The Nut, a huge volcanic plug. Because the town sits on a peninsula, there is a beach for almost every wind…
Townsville – Pallarenda Queensland- Water
- Chop
- Best season
- All year
The beach east of Townsville airport in tropical north Queensland, rideable all year in winds of 15–30 knots, most often around 20. The wind is usually onshore…
Whitsundays – Whitehaven Beach Queensland- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Mar–Jun
One of Australia's most famous beaches, pure white silica sand on Whitsunday Island in the Great Barrier Reef, reached by boat from Airlie Beach. The lagoon at…
Yorke Peninsula South Australia- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Oct–Mar
A long peninsula west of Adelaide with spots for most conditions: Corny Point at the western tip has reliable winds of 15–25 knots over flat water and…
New Caledonia
- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Sep–Mar
A long sandy beach on New Caledonia's west coast near Bourail, facing a lagoon inside the barrier reef. The summer trade wind blows steadily at around 18–22…
Nouméa lagoon
Nouméa
- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Sep–Dec
The world's largest lagoon wraps around New Caledonia, with steady south-east trades over flat, warm water around Nouméa and reef-pass waves on the outside…
New Zealand
Auckland – North Shore beaches
Auckland
- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Sep–Mar
Auckland's east-coast beaches (Takapuna, Manly, Shakespear Regional Park) and Lake Pupuke offer a spot for most wind directions, with moderate 10–20 knot…
5 centers · Lessons, Rental Christchurch – Kairaki & New Brighton Canterbury- Water
- Waves
- Best season
- Oct–Apr
A 30 km sandy beach running north from Christchurch. The prevailing north-easterly sea breeze blows three or four days a week from October to March, onshore and…
Foxton Beach Manawatū-Whanganui- Water
- Flat and waves
- Best season
- Sep–Feb
A west-coast beach town on the North Island where the Manawatū River meets the sea. The estuary is ideal for beginners in south-west to west winds, since a…
Marahau – Abel Tasman
Nelson
- Water
- Flat water
- Best season
- Nov–Mar
The gateway to the Abel Tasman National Park an hour from Nelson, and probably the most unforgettable place to ride in New Zealand: huge sand flats with…
Muriwai Auckland- Water
- Waves
- Best season
- Jun–Sep
Auckland's wild west coast, a black-sand surf beach about 50 km long backed by dunes and forest. The waves are generally big and heavy, breaking 300–500 m out…
Wellington – Lyall Bay & Eastbourne Wellington- Water
- Waves
- Best season
- Sep–Mar
New Zealand's windy capital, where about three quarters of the wind is northerly. Lyall Bay beside the airport faces Cook Strait and only works in southerlies…
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