Bocabarranco 61.8
#2993 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Las Palmas · near Las Palmas
Works almost every day, wind is the enemy here, no off season.
Best time to surf Bocabarranco
The best time to surf Bocabarranco is February, April, December. It rarely works. In December the water sits around 20°C, so pack a 2 mm shorty, and the typical wave is 1.2 m. The nearest airport is LPA (37 km) and the nearest town is Las Palmas (24 km).
| Month | Surfable | Clean | Size | Water | Suit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 96% | 14% | 1.1 m | 19°C | 2mm |
| Feb | 96% | 18% | 1.3 m | 19°C | 3/2 |
| Mar | 97% | 13% | 1.2 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Apr | 95% | 25% | 1.1 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| May | 91% | 0% | 1.1 m | 20°C | 2mm |
| Jun | 89% | 0% | 1.1 m | 21°C | 2mm |
| Jul | 100% | 0% | 1.4 m | 22°C | vest |
| Aug | 99% | 0% | 1.3 m | 23°C | vest |
| Sep | 90% | 4% | 1.0 m | 23°C | vest |
| Oct | 90% | 2% | 1.1 m | 23°C | vest |
| Nov | 95% | 8% | 1.1 m | 22°C | vest |
| Dec | 95% | 28% | 1.2 m | 20°C | 2mm |
What is under Bocabarranco
Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor drops to 93 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 298 m against 93 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 61.8
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 350° with 42% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 22% of days. Mean peak period 9.7 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.7 m, with a peak period of 13 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 54%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 28.159, -15.665 (OpenStreetMap).
Live here
13 homes for sale within 30 km of Bocabarranco, up to 60,000 euro. Houses and flats you can move into, never plots of land. Cheapest right now €28,800. Checked 2026-09-13. Listings from Fotocasa and the agents themselves; we take no part in the deal.
€28,800Flat · 52 m²Las Palmas de Gran Canaria24 km from the spot →
€42,500Country house · 12 m² · 1 roomSanta María de Guía de Gran Canaria4 km from the spot →
€47,490Country house · 110 m² · 2 roomsVega de San Mateo19 km from the spot →
€54,000Flat · 63 m² · 2 roomsLas Palmas de Gran Canaria21 km from the spot →
€55,000Flat · 141 m² · 3 roomsTeror17 km from the spot →
€58,000Home · 230 m² · 5 roomsSanta María de Guía de Gran Canaria8 km from the spot →What it costs to be here
Airport and town on the doorstep, so the local estimate is 8% above the country average. Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Spain (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.
Sumba has eight spots in this ranking, the best of them inside the world top 50. A cabin is €11,500. The land it sits on is separate, from €6,500 (€9,950 oceanfront), on an 80-year lease that extends at the end. Water, septic and electricity are another €6,500, and furniture is on top, so a finished cabin lands around €28,000 plus the land, payable in instalments.
Eco Beach City is run by the same people as SurfRanking, so treat this as our own advert, not a recommendation. It is an off-plan property in Indonesia: take your own legal and financial advice before paying anything.
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