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21°10′ N → 16°04′ N · ATLANTIC COAST
Explore the coast
The waves on this map were found from space, by going through years of satellite imagery. Switch years to see the swell working on other dates.
The waves on this map were found from space, by going through years of satellite imagery. Switch years to see the swell working on other dates.
Rocky point with a sandy cove to the south, the same layout as Cap Blanc. In big swell, the whitewater wraps around the point.
Atlantic side of the peninsula, Western Sahara side: military zone, access by permit only, mines reported.
A rocky shelf about 800 m long that breaks in a mass in big swell. The shape of the wave is still unclear.
Atlantic side of the peninsula, Western Sahara side: military zone, access by permit only, mines reported.
A rocky point closing an arc-shaped bay. In big swell, the waves wrap around the point into the bay.
Atlantic side of the peninsula, Western Sahara side: military zone, access by permit only, mines reported.
A rocky point one kilometre north of Lagouira. On several dates, the whitewater wraps around the point and peels along the shore.
Atlantic side of the peninsula, Western Sahara side: military zone, access by permit only, mines reported.
Right-hander below the old fort. In big north-west swell, the waves wrap around the point and peel into the sandy cove.
Atlantic side of the peninsula, Western Sahara side: military zone, access by permit only, mines reported.
Right-hand point break over sand, about 700 m long, at the tip of the peninsula. Inside the Cap Blanc park, entry fee.
A bank or shoal about 1 km offshore that breaks as soon as the swell goes above 1.5 m.
A sandy bend north of Tanit, with whitewater offshore on a few dates. A weak lead.
A right-hand point break over sand created by the fishing port, built in 2018. It works from 1.8 m of swell, on eight years of imagery.
A regular double-bar beach break, with no fixed peak.
Since the jetty was built, big swells wrap around its tip.
Port entrance: access probably restricted, ask locally.
We cut the whole coast, from the north of the peninsula to the mouth of the Senegal River, into squares of about one kilometre, then went through each square on around ten images dated 2008 to 2026.
A "confirmed" wave shows up in the same place over several years, and only in big swell: we checked it against Sentinel-2 imagery and the swell of each day. A wave "to explore" is visible on the imagery, but nobody has surfed it yet as far as we know.
Each archive year brings together images taken on different dates depending on the place: they do not all show the same swell.
Imagery: Esri World Imagery and Wayback (Maxar, Vantor). Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data. Swell: ERA5 (Copernicus Climate Change Service) via Open-Meteo. Coastline: © OpenStreetMap contributors.