Kiel Fjord – Laboe
The Baltic Sea at the mouth of the Kiel Fjord, where a VDWS school teaches wing foiling from the beach at Laboe, next to the U-boat memorial. Other courses start straight from a boat out of Schilksee, Laboe or Wendtorf, which gives more foiling time in open water.
Source: kiel.surfers-p.de · checked 2026-09-24
Climate
Monthly averages in °C, 2016–2025: air as the daily high and low, water as the sea surface.
| Series | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air max. | 5° | 6° | 8° | 12° | 16° | 21° | 21° | 22° | 19° | 14° | 8° | 6° |
| Air min. | 1° | 1° | 2° | 4° | 9° | 13° | 14° | 15° | 13° | 9° | 5° | 2° |
| Water | 4° | 4° | 5° | 7° | 12° | 16° | 18° | 19° | 17° | 13° | 10° | 6° |
- Air: ERA5 / ERA5-Land (Copernicus Climate Change Service) via Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0), contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026
- Water: NOAA OISST v2.1, provided by NOAA PSL, Boulder, Colorado, USA (Public domain). Sea surface temperature of the nearest 25 km grid cell with open water, 25 km from the spot
Schools and rental
3 stations at this spot: what they offer, whose gear they run and when they are open.
The Baltic kite school's three-day wing foil course with twelve hours of training.
Salty MarineBoat-based wing foil courses of about three hours on the Baltic, leaving from Schilksee, Laboe or Wendtorf.
Surfers Point LaboeA VDWS school on the beach at Laboe, next to the U-boat, teaching wing foil in two modules.