Australia
26 wing and kite foil spots, with conditions, best season and the schools and rental stations at each.
Adelaide – Seacliff & Largs Bay
South 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…
2 centers · Lessons, Rental 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…
1 center · Lessons, Rental
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…
2 centers · Lessons, Rental
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…
1 center · Lessons
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…
1 center · Lessons
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…
Schools and rental
17 stations at this spot: what they offer, whose gear they run and when they are open.
One of Australia's longest-running kite schools, founded in 2000, teaching kite, foil and wing foil around Byron Bay with IKO instructors.
Earth Kitesurfing Byron BayNorth Coast kite, wing and foil school teaching at Byron Bay, Lennox Head, Ballina and the Gold Coast.
Foiling Australia Gold Coast – BroadwaterA Gold Coast foil and wing foil school from beginner to advanced.
GoKite Inverloch – Anderson InletMelbourne kite school that moves its lessons with the wind, including to Inverloch's shallow inlet.
Gokite Melbourne – Port Phillip BayGokite runs its wing foil lessons from a trailer on the St Kilda foreshore, starting beginners with the wing on a surfboard.
Gold Coast Kiteboarding Gold Coast – BroadwaterWing foil lessons on the Gold Coast.
Gold Coast Kitesurfing Gold Coast – BroadwaterAn accredited Gold Coast kite school that also teaches wing foiling.
Kite Republic Melbourne – Port Phillip BayKite Republic teaches wing foiling at the St Kilda Sea Baths with IKO- and wing-certified coaches, in two- and six-hour packages.
KiteWest Coronation BeachThe IKO kite centre at Coronation Beach, open September to April, with one-on-one radio-coached wing foil lessons.
Kiteboarding School Adelaide Adelaide – Seacliff & Largs BayWest Beach kite school in Adelaide offering hourly lessons and beginner packs.
Kitepower Sydney – Botany BaySydney kite, wing and foil shop whose school teaches one-on-one on Botany Bay during the sea-breeze season, closed from May to October.
RIDE Kitesurfing Adelaide – Seacliff & Largs BayAdelaide kite and wing foil school and shop at Largs Bay, with low-cost intro group lessons and kite trips.
SHQ Boardsports Melbourne – Port Phillip BaySHQ Boardsports, a wing, kite and windsurf shop, runs wing foil lessons in Melbourne.
SoulKite Australia Safety BayA Perth kite, wing foil and SUP school since 2011, teaching on the Swan River and at Safety Bay and Rockingham.
Surf Connect Brisbane – Brighton & Wellington PointBrisbane wind and water sports specialist at Sandgate since 2005, teaching kite, windsurf, wing foil and SUP.
The Zu Kite Club Melbourne – Port Phillip BayThe Zu Kite Club in St Kilda teaches wing foiling from complete beginners to advanced riders, alongside kite and SUP.
WA Surf Safety BayPerth's kite and wing foil school at Safety Bay since 1999, open October to March, teaching in waist-deep water on Duotone, Ozone and...