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Cabo Home 73.6

#2054 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Pontevedra · near Vigo

Works almost every day, no off season.

Works all yearIntermediate
Cabo Home, Spain
Photo: Javier Torres Pereira · CC BY-SA 3.0 es · source
Surf score73.6 /100
Surfable days91% of the year
Clean days26% groundswell + friendly wind
Groundswell34% period 11 s+
Typical size1.1 m 3.6 ft median
Water15°C a 4/3 with boots

Best time to surf Cabo Home

The best time to surf Cabo Home is January, March, November. The season runs Mar to Mar. In November the water sits around 15°C, so pack a 4/3 with boots, and the typical wave is 1.7 m. The nearest airport is OPO (114 km) and the nearest town is Vigo (12 km).

MonthSurfableCleanSizeWaterSuit
Jan95%34%1.4 m13°C5/4
Feb100%27%1.8 m12°C5/4
Mar96%48%1.4 m13°C4/3
Apr97%33%1.2 m14°C4/3
May93%7%1.0 m16°C3/2
Jun83%5%0.8 m18°C3/2
Jul72%1%0.7 m18°C3/2
Aug78%2%0.7 m18°C3/2
Sep87%17%0.9 m17°C3/2
Oct94%23%1.3 m15°C4/3
Nov99%57%1.7 m15°C4/3
Dec97%29%1.8 m14°C4/3

What is under Cabo Home

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is already 436 m deep, deep right up to the door, so swell arrives with its energy intact.

Depth 8 km out436 m
Depth 4 km out185 m

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 73.6

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.

Wave quality 34.7%
20.5
Best days 22.4%
12.7
Clean days 18.4%
11.8
Consistency 10.2%
10.2
Season spread 4.1%
4.1
Water comfort 6.1%
1.0
Access 4.1%
3.4

The detail

Faces 215° with 36% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 78% of days. Mean peak period 10.0 s. Days over 3 m: 2%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 2.3 m, with a peak period of 15 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 54%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 42.253, -8.872 (OpenStreetMap).

Live here

5 homes for sale within 30 km of Cabo Home, up to 60,000 euro. Houses and flats you can move into, never plots of land. Cheapest right now €31,000. Checked 2026-09-13. Listings from Fotocasa and the agents themselves; we take no part in the deal.

€31,000Home · 118 m² · 1 roomTui29 km from the spot →€45,000Home · 15 m²Vigo 14 km from the spot →€45,000Home · 66 m² · 2 roomsTui30 km from the spot →€48,000Country house · 70 m²Gondomar19 km from the spot →€50,000Flat · 76 m² · 2 roomsMoaña11 km from the spot →

What it costs to be here

Living here
€1,530/ month
typically €1,350 – €1,720
Rent, one bedroom€805
Groceries€324
Eating out€184
Getting around€108
Phone + internet€113
Renting by the month, cooking most days, local transport.
One month here
€2,990/ month
typically €2,630 – €3,350
Somewhere to stay€1,770
Eating out€632
Car, transfers, fuel€405
Data + extras€194
Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.
49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

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.

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