Abras 68.9

#2454 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇧🇷 Brazil · Rio Grande do Norte · near Natal

Works almost every day, wind is the enemy here, no off season.

Best time to surf Abras

The best time to surf Abras is April, May, June. It rarely works. In May the water sits around 29°C, so pack boardshorts, and the typical wave is 1.8 m. The nearest airport is NAT (391 km) and the nearest town is Natal (382 km).

What is under Abras

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor drops to 92 m, shoaling steadily over the last kilometres. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 354 m against 92 m, deep enough to bend swell onto one peak instead of spreading it along the beach.

Measured, not estimated: NOAA ETOPO 2022 global relief at 15 arc-seconds, about 460 m per cell, sampled along this spot’s own swell window. At that scale the survey sees passes and channels; it cannot see a reef ledge, so nothing here is said about how the wave breaks.

Why 68.9

Seven parts, each normalised 0 to 1 and multiplied by its weight; the sum is scaled so the best spot in the world scores 100. Wave quality and what the spot does on its best days carry more than half of it, which is what separates this from a ranking of where the water is warm.

The detail

Faces 25° with 83% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 18% of days. Mean peak period 10.8 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 2.2 m, with a peak period of 14 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 0%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates -3.828, -32.401 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Remote spot, so the local estimate is 15% below the country average. Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Brazil (2025, United States = 1.00) applied to a fixed surfer basket, then adjusted for how remote the spot is. Your own number moves with the season and how you live.

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