Season guide

Where to kitesurf in September

Plan a September kite trip. 41 kitesurfing destinations across 23 countries, including Australia, Brazil, Colombia, Croatia. Compare riding areas, seasons and nearby stays where available.

Compare September destinations by region

The September shortlist spans 6 regions. Africa: 11 destinations in 6 countries; Asia: 8 destinations in 5 countries; Europe: 14 destinations in 7 countries; North America: 2 destinations in 1 country; Oceania: 2 destinations in 2 countries; South America: 4 destinations in 2 countries. Compare the complete recorded seasons below if your dates are flexible.

Africa

11 destinations · Egypt, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Tanzania

  • All Africa destinations
  • El Gouna, Egypt

    A resort town of islands and lagoons on the Red Sea, built around the water, with thermal wind that arrives on schedule. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

  • Hamata & Wadi Lahami, Egypt

    A vast shallow lagoon in the Egyptian deep south, two and a half hours from the nearest airport and almost entirely empty. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Soma Bay & Safaga, Egypt

    A shallow Red Sea lagoon that consistently blows harder than its neighbours, with rescue boats a requirement rather than a courtesy. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

  • Diani Coast, Kenya

    Kenya's south coast: white sand behind a barrier reef, two monsoons a year, and the safari plains a short flight inland. Recorded best months: January, February, March, June, July, August, September, December.

  • Watamu & Kilifi Coast, Kenya

    Kenya's quieter coast north of Mombasa, where the Kaskazi blows side-onshore over a reef lagoon from December to March. Recorded best months: January, February, March, May, June, July, August, September, October, December.

  • Antsiranana & Northern Madagascar, Madagascar

    A thirty-square-kilometre emerald lagoon at Madagascar's northern tip, reached past Diego Suarez and almost nobody else. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

  • Nosy Be, Madagascar

    Madagascar's holiday island, with reliable south-east trades from April to November and rainforest, lemurs and diving alongside. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

  • Le Morne, Mauritius

    A UNESCO-listed basalt monolith, a turquoise lagoon held by reef, and Mauritius's finest hotels within minutes of the water. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Dakhla, Morocco

    A forty-five kilometre lagoon between the Sahara and the Atlantic, with wind on around 340 days a year. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September.

  • Essaouira, Morocco

    A walled eighteenth-century port on the Atlantic, famous for wind long before kitesurfing, with three very different beaches within twenty minutes. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September.

  • Zanzibar East Coast, Tanzania

    A reef-held lagoon on the Indian Ocean side of Zanzibar, where the tide empties the flats twice a day and two monsoons divide the year. Recorded best months: January, February, March, June, July, August, September, December.

Asia

8 destinations · India, Indonesia, Oman, Sri Lanka, Thailand

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  • Rameswaram, India

    A pilgrimage island in the Gulf of Mannar with two wind seasons and over three hundred rideable days a year. Recorded best months: January, February, March, June, July, August, September, December.

  • Banda Aceh, Indonesia

    Jungle and mountains behind a warm Sumatran coast, with two wind windows and almost no other kiters. Recorded best months: January, February, March, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Ekas Bay, Lombok, Indonesia

    A remote bay in southern Lombok with a reef-held lagoon, butter-flat at low tide and breaking over the reef at high. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September.

  • Lakey Peak, Sumbawa, Indonesia

    A legendary Indonesian wave on a remote stretch of Sumbawa, with strong wind from July to October and nothing else to do. Recorded best months: July, August, September, October.

  • Sanur, Bali, Indonesia

    Bali's easiest water: a shallow, reef-protected lagoon on the quiet east coast, twenty minutes from the airport. Recorded best months: June, July, August, September.

  • Barr Al Hikman, Oman

    Three shallow turquoise lagoons on Oman's empty east coast, blown by the khareef monsoon through the Gulf summer. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September.

  • Kalpitiya Peninsula, Sri Lanka

    A peninsula on Sri Lanka's north-west coast where wind accelerates through the Palk Strait and blows for nine months a year. Recorded best months: January, February, March, May, June, July, August, September, December.

  • Koh Phangan, Thailand

    A Gulf of Thailand island with three separate wind seasons, where the kiting is quiet, warm and unhurried. Recorded best months: January, February, March, June, July, August, September, December.

Europe

14 destinations · Croatia, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Spain

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  • Nin & Zadar Coast, Croatia

    A shallow Adriatic lagoon beside a mediaeval town, with the maestral in summer and the bora in spring. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

  • Pelješac Peninsula, Croatia

    A windy channel between Pelješac and Korčula, and one of the busiest wind-sports villages on the Adriatic. Recorded best months: June, July, August, September.

  • Naxos, Greece

    A Cycladic island where wind funnels between Naxos and Paros and arrives stronger than the forecast. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September.

  • Paros, Greece

    Two Cycladic beaches on the Meltemi, with a compact eight-week high season in July and August. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September.

  • Rhodes, Greece

    Where the Meltemi meets two seas at the southern tip of Rhodes, and a sandbar divides flat water from waves. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September.

  • Sardinia, Italy

    A Mediterranean island with wind on both ends — a shallow flat-water lagoon in the south-west, and one of Italy's windiest straits in the north. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Tuscany & Maremma Coast, Italy

    Shallow, beginner-friendly bays on the Tyrrhenian coast, backed by the wine country and hill towns of the Maremma. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Western Sicily, Italy

    Over 250 windy days a year on Sicily's south-west coast, on a wave beach well away from the crowds. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Dutch Delta Coast, Netherlands

    Dams, sea inlets and shallow lakes in the Dutch south-west, with wind most of the year and rules worth reading first. Recorded best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, September, October, November, December.

  • Hel Peninsula, Poland

    A sandspit reaching into the Baltic, with one of Europe's largest beginner lagoons on its sheltered side. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September.

  • Lisbon Coast, Portugal

    A capital city with a lagoon, a twenty-kilometre beach and one of Europe's heaviest wave spots inside an hour's drive. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Northern Portugal Coast, Portugal

    The Minho coast north of Porto, where the Nortada blows all summer over river lagoons and Atlantic beaches. Recorded best months: March, April, May, June, July, August, September.

  • El Médano, Tenerife, Spain

    A low-key wind town under a volcanic cone on Tenerife's southern tip, where the trades blow on roughly two days in three, all year. Recorded best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

  • Tarifa, Spain

    A walled Moorish town at the tip of Andalusia, where two seas meet and the wind has drawn riders for thirty years. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November.

North America

2 destinations · United States

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  • Cape Hatteras, United States

    A thin barrier island off North Carolina with shallow sound on one side and the best waves on the American east coast on the other. Recorded best months: April, May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Maui, United States

    The north shore of Maui, where the trades funnel between two volcanoes and the sport largely learned to fly. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September, October.

Oceania

2 destinations · Australia, New Zealand

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  • Port Douglas, Australia

    Trade winds over a wide, shallow tropical beach in Far North Queensland, with the reef and the rainforest either side. Recorded best months: May, June, July, August, September, October.

  • Wānaka, New Zealand

    Alpine freshwater under the Southern Alps, where the wind is less reliable than the scenery is extraordinary. Recorded best months: January, February, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.

South America

4 destinations · Brazil, Colombia

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  • Atins & Lençóis Maranhenses, Brazil

    A village at the edge of a desert of white dunes and rainwater lagoons, reached by boat or 4x4 and by very few people. Recorded best months: January, July, August, September, October, November, December.

  • Cumbuco, Brazil

    A fishing village on the Ceará coast that the trade winds turned into a kitesurfing town, with glassy lagoons a buggy ride down the sand. Recorded best months: January, July, August, September, October, November, December.

  • Jericoacoara & Preá, Brazil

    A fishing village in a national park where the streets are sand, and fourteen kilometres of beach downwind that made it a kitesurfing pilgrimage. Recorded best months: January, February, July, August, September, October, November, December.

  • La Guajira, Colombia

    The desert peninsula at Colombia's northern tip, where the Wayuu live and the wind blows for ten months of the year. Recorded best months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, December.

Start with your travel dates

The months shown are the best months recorded for the published kite areas within each destination. They are a planning shortlist, not a wind forecast or a promise of daily riding. An unmarked month means it is not listed in the guide, not that kitesurfing is impossible.

Choose the right kite area

A destination can contain different lagoons, beaches and wave spots. Open its guide to compare the individual areas and their seasons, water conditions and rider levels before deciding where to ride.

Connect the riding to the stay

Once you have a shortlist, compare the nearby stays where available. Check the distance to your chosen kite area, access arrangements and what the trip offers everyone travelling with you. Confirm current conditions and services locally before booking.

Flexible on dates?

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