Club Med 76.8

#1645 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇸🇳 Senegal · Dakar · near Dakar

Works almost every day, no off season.

Best time to surf Club Med

The best time to surf Club Med is January, October, December. The season runs Oct to Oct. In January the water sits around 19°C, so pack a 2 mm shorty, and the typical wave is 1.5 m. The nearest airport is DKR (4 km) and the nearest town is Dakar (6 km).

What is under Club Med

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor sits over 40 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 61 m against 40 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 76.8

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 275° with 78% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 38% of days. Mean peak period 11.6 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.9 m, with a peak period of 14 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 15%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 14.741, -17.528 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Airport and town on the doorstep, so the local estimate is 23% above the country average. Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Senegal (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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