Kitesurfing in North America

Destinations

• Aruba

  A desert island in the southern Caribbean where the trade winds blow almost year-round and the leeward beaches stay flat.

• Barbados South Coast, Barbados

  The windiest corner of the eastern Caribbean, with reef-sheltered flats on the south coast and swell outside them.

• Bonaire, Caribbean Netherlands

  A flat, dry Dutch Caribbean island best known for its diving, with steady trades and a shallow west-coast kite beach.

• Cabarete, Dominican Republic

  The Caribbean's original kite town on the north coast of the Dominican Republic, with 250 to 300 rideable days a year.

• 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.

• Curaçao

  A mangrove-fringed lagoon on the wild north-east coast, on an island whose other side is all colonial harbour and reef diving.

• Isla Blanca & Cancún, Mexico

  A sandbar north of Cancún with a shallow lagoon on one side and the Caribbean on the other, half an hour from the airport.

• La Ventana & El Sargento, Mexico

  A desert bay on the Sea of Cortez where the winter El Norte funnels down the coast and the whale sharks arrive with it.

• Los Barriles, Mexico

  A wide, empty sand beach on Baja's east cape, with side-shore wind, no current and miles of room.

• Maui, United States

  The north shore of Maui, where the trades funnel between two volcanoes and the sport largely learned to fly.

• Turks & Caicos, Turks and Caicos Islands

  Miles of waist-deep water off Providenciales, with an onshore trade wind that blows on nine days in ten for ten months of the year.

• Northern Yucatán Coast, Mexico

  A quiet fishing village and a long shallow coast on the Gulf side of Yucatán, with some of Mexico's most dependable wind.