El Portillon 82.4
#789 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Pontevedra · near Vigo
Works almost every day, no off season, real size comes through.
Best time to surf El Portillon
The best time to surf El Portillon is January, February, March. The season runs Oct to Apr. In February the water sits around 12°C, so pack a 5/4 with boots and hood, and the typical wave is 2.7 m. The nearest airport is OPO (105 km) and the nearest town is Vigo (9 km).
| Month | Surfable | Clean | Size | Water | Suit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 95% | 48% | 2.3 m | 13°C | 5/4 |
| Feb | 97% | 56% | 2.7 m | 12°C | 5/4 |
| Mar | 92% | 51% | 2.5 m | 13°C | 4/3 |
| Apr | 97% | 40% | 1.9 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
| May | 100% | 19% | 1.5 m | 16°C | 3/2 |
| Jun | 98% | 11% | 1.4 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Jul | 100% | 7% | 1.4 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Aug | 97% | 8% | 1.3 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Sep | 97% | 32% | 1.4 m | 17°C | 3/2 |
| Oct | 98% | 41% | 1.9 m | 15°C | 4/3 |
| Nov | 93% | 40% | 2.6 m | 15°C | 4/3 |
| Dec | 88% | 45% | 2.6 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
What is under El Portillon
Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is still shallow, 17 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 82.4
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 310° with 33% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 70% of days. Mean peak period 11.0 s. Days over 3 m: 15%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 3.3 m, with a peak period of 13 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 20%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 42.175, -8.816 (OpenStreetMap).
Live here
13 homes for sale within 30 km of El Portillon, 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 roomTui19 km from the spot →
€39,000Home · 157 m²Salceda de Caselas22 km from the spot →
€45,000Home · 15 m²Vigo 11 km from the spot →
€48,000Country house · 70 m²Gondomar9 km from the spot →
€50,000Flat · 76 m² · 2 roomsMoaña13 km from the spot →
€53,000Home · 140 m² · 4 roomsTomiño26 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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