La machacona 69.9
#2383 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Lugo · near La Coruña
Very consistent, no off season, a mission to reach.
Best time to surf La machacona
The best time to surf La machacona is January, February, December. The season runs Dec to Feb. In February the water sits around 13°C, so pack a 5/4 with boots and hood, and the typical wave is 1.7 m. The nearest airport is OPO (289 km) and the nearest town is La Coruña (94 km).
| Month | Surfable | Clean | Size | Water | Suit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 96% | 50% | 1.4 m | 13°C | 4/3 |
| Feb | 100% | 65% | 1.7 m | 13°C | 5/4 |
| Mar | 94% | 36% | 1.6 m | 13°C | 5/4 |
| Apr | 91% | 24% | 1.0 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
| May | 81% | 21% | 0.9 m | 16°C | 4/3 |
| Jun | 76% | 7% | 0.8 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Jul | 67% | 5% | 0.7 m | 20°C | 2mm |
| Aug | 75% | 6% | 0.8 m | 20°C | 2mm |
| Sep | 83% | 23% | 1.0 m | 20°C | 2mm |
| Oct | 90% | 28% | 1.2 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Nov | 97% | 33% | 1.6 m | 16°C | 4/3 |
| Dec | 92% | 56% | 1.4 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
What is under La machacona
Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor drops to 95 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 144 m against 95 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 69.9
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 55° with 42% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 68% of days. Mean peak period 10.8 s. Days over 3 m: 3%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 2.3 m, with a peak period of 14 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 54%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 43.638, -7.333 (OpenStreetMap).
Live here
26 homes for sale within 30 km of La machacona, up to 60,000 euro. Houses and flats you can move into, never plots of land. Cheapest right now €15,000. Checked 2026-09-13. Listings from Fotocasa and the agents themselves; we take no part in the deal.
€16,000Flat · 180 m²Cervo7 km from the spot →
€27,000Semi-detached · 250 m² · 1 roomViveiro21 km from the spot →
€38,000Flat · 100 m² · 3 roomsViveiro22 km from the spot →
€50,000Semi-detached · 140 m² · 3 roomsFoz10 km from the spot →
€50,000Home · 182 m² · 3 roomsAlfoz12 km from the spot →
€54,000Flat · 89 m²Viveiro21 km from the spot →What it costs to be here
Remote spot, so the local estimate is 15% below 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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