Is Kuna An good for beginners?

Kuna An is rated Beginner: the median wave is 0.5 m and 67% of days are mellow (0.4 to 1.2 m).

How warm is the water at Kuna An?

The yearly mean sea temperature is 28°C, so most of the year you want boardshorts.

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Kuna An 38.6

#4882 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇵🇦 Panama · Kuna Yala · near El Porvenir

Needs the right swell, wind is the enemy here, boardshorts water.

Warm waterBeginner

Photo: diego_cue · CC BY-SA 3.0 · source · photo taken 4.8 km from the spot

Surf score38.6 /100

Surfable days19% of the year

Clean days0% groundswell + friendly wind

Groundswell0% period 11 s+

Typical size0.5 m 1.5 ft median

Water28°C boardshorts

Best time to surf Kuna An

It rarely works. The nearest airport is PTY (80 km) and the nearest town is El Porvenir (10 km).

Month	Surfable	Clean	Size	Water	Suit
Jan	43%	0%	0.6 m	28°C	boardies
Feb	54%	0%	0.6 m	27°C	boardies
Mar	50%	0%	0.6 m	28°C	boardies
Apr	17%	0%	0.4 m	28°C	boardies
May	6%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Jun	2%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Jul	8%	0%	0.4 m	28°C	boardies
Aug	3%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Sep	3%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Oct	11%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Nov	18%	0%	0.4 m	29°C	boardies
Dec	21%	0%	0.5 m	28°C	boardies

What is under Kuna An

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is still shallow, 23 m.

Depth 8 km out23 m

Depth 4 km out20 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 38.6

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%

20.8

Best days 22.4%

0.9

Clean days 18.4%

0.0

Consistency 10.2%

1.5

Season spread 4.1%

0.4

Water comfort 6.1%

6.1

Access 4.1%

3.7

The detail

Faces 340° with 61% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 66% of days. Mean peak period 8.0 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 0.7 m, with a peak period of 12 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 67%. Months that work: 2 of 12. Coordinates 9.589, -78.889 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Living here

€1,070/ month

typically €942 – €1,200

Rent, one bedroom€565

Groceries€225

Eating out€130

Getting around€75

Phone + internet€80

Renting by the month, cooking most days, local transport.

One month here

€2,090/ month

typically €1,840 – €2,340

Somewhere to stay€1,240

Eating out€440

Car, transfers, fuel€285

Data + extras€135

Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.

49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Panama (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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