Maconde 88.9

#178 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇲🇺 Mauritius · Rivière Noire · near Curepipe

Works almost every day, no off season, boardshorts water.

Best time to surf Maconde

The best time to surf Maconde is August, October, November. It rarely works. In October the water sits around 24°C, so pack a rash vest or 2 mm, and the typical wave is 1.8 m. The nearest airport is MRU (33 km) and the nearest town is Curepipe (25 km).

What is under Maconde

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is already 253 m deep, deep right up to the door, so swell arrives with its energy intact.

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 88.9

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 205° with 50% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 34% of days. Mean peak period 11.9 s. Days over 3 m: 7%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 2.8 m, with a peak period of 14 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 3%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates -20.496, 57.369 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Mauritius (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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