Kite spots and when to go
Know your wind odds before you book.
Real kite destinations ranked for your dates, from hourly wind data, with the method on the page.
The kite spot guide with measured wind seasons: where and when to kitesurf, from hourly model data, with the method on every page.
Where to kite in November
Ranked by the share of kite days in November. Places with local winds that weather models miss are not ranked.
- Prime 60 % and more
- Good 40 to 59 %
- Possible 20 to 39 %
- Off under 20 %
- No data hatched
Prime also needs a good month in at least 7 of the 9 years, so one freak year cannot make a month Prime. A month with 60 %+ but fewer good years shows as Good.
Each strip shows kite days per month; the outlined cell is November.
No. 1
Jericoacoara
Brazil
99 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 2
Preá
Brazil
98 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 3
Ilha do Guajiru
Brazil
98 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
Brazil
97 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 5
Cumbuco
Brazil
96 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 6
Paracuru
Brazil
96 % kite days in November, about 29 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 7
Taíba
Brazil
93 % kite days in November, about 28 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 8
Atins
Brazil
88 % kite days in November, about 26 of 30
Water 28 °C, boardshorts
No. 9
Gnaraloo
Australia
87 % kite days in November, about 26 of 30
Water 24 °C, shorty
No. 10
Lancelin
Australia
86 % kite days in November, about 26 of 30
Water 21 °C, spring suit
This month and next
How the odds work
- A kite day has at least 3 hours of 12 to 35 knots between 10:00 and 19:00, in daylight, counted from hourly model wind 2017 to 2025.
- For every day of a month we start a trip of your length and count its kite days; a trip is good when at least half its days are kite days.
- "x in 10" is the share of good trips, capped at 9 in 10 because wind is never a promise.
Why a kite trip needs odds, not a forecast
A kite trip is booked 4 to 8 weeks ahead and lasts about 11 days. One blank week wastes it. The web gives four different Tarifa seasons from four sources and no method behind any of them.
Why forecasts, statistics tabs and agencies fall short
- Forecast apps (Windy, Windguru, Windfinder) answer the next 10 days, not the month you can take leave. For the short notice case every page here shows the Windy forecast on click.
- Statistics tabs count night hours and show one spot at a time.
- Friends and forums give one person's seasons.
- Guides and agencies publish unsourced "300 windy days".
What to ask of any wind number before you book
- Kite days counted on daytime hours a rider can use, not a 24 hour mean.
- Odds for a trip window, not an annual average.
- How often a month worked over the available years.
- A stated source and model for every number.
- Honesty where models fail: lakes, gorges, thermal spots.
- Water and wetsuit next to the wind.
- The same numbers for every destination, so places compare.
Objections, answered
- "Models are wrong at my lake."
- Yes. Garda and Hood River fail in every global model, so those pages show a sourced season band and no model numbers.
- "I just use Windy."
- So do we, for the next 10 days; every page shows it on click. Windy stores no history, so it cannot tell you how often November worked.
- "Your numbers were wrong last year."
- True: the old metric counted night hours. The method page shows the before and after and the validation table.
- "A model is not a beach."
- Right. Every page states the model, the years and whether the spot shares its grid cell; the confidence label drops when the cell is far.
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Model wind: ECMWF IFS 9 km or ERA5, one model per spot, hourly via Open-Meteo, 2017 to 2025. Kite day: at least 3 hours of 12 to 35 kn model wind between 10:00 and 19:00 in daylight, with gusts up to 45 kn.
Confidence on every place page: high, medium or low, with the reason in words. Curated seasons from documented sources where models miss the local wind.
Made by Max Fischer, kite instructor. About kiteCOMPASS