Montalvo Beach 73.4
#2080 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Pontevedra · near Vigo
Works almost every day, no off season.
Best time to surf Montalvo Beach
The best time to surf Montalvo Beach is January, March, November. The season runs Mar to Mar. In November the water sits around 15°C, so pack a 4/3 with boots, and the typical wave is 1.7 m. The nearest airport is OPO (130 km) and the nearest town is Vigo (22 km).
| Month | Surfable | Clean | Size | Water | Suit |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 95% | 35% | 1.4 m | 13°C | 5/4 |
| Feb | 100% | 29% | 1.8 m | 12°C | 5/4 |
| Mar | 95% | 48% | 1.4 m | 13°C | 4/3 |
| Apr | 95% | 34% | 1.2 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
| May | 92% | 7% | 1.0 m | 16°C | 3/2 |
| Jun | 83% | 6% | 0.8 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Jul | 69% | 1% | 0.7 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Aug | 78% | 2% | 0.7 m | 18°C | 3/2 |
| Sep | 85% | 17% | 0.8 m | 17°C | 3/2 |
| Oct | 93% | 23% | 1.3 m | 15°C | 4/3 |
| Nov | 97% | 57% | 1.7 m | 15°C | 4/3 |
| Dec | 97% | 34% | 1.8 m | 14°C | 4/3 |
What is under Montalvo Beach
Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is still shallow, 13 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 18 m against 13 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 73.4
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 195° with 36% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 80% of days. Mean peak period 10.0 s. Days over 3 m: 2%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 2.3 m, with a peak period of 15 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 54%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 42.398, -8.848 (OpenStreetMap).
Live here
11 homes for sale within 30 km of Montalvo Beach, up to 60,000 euro. Houses and flats you can move into, never plots of land. Cheapest right now €24,900. Checked 2026-09-13. Listings from Fotocasa and the agents themselves; we take no part in the deal.
€24,900Home · 180 m²Pontevedra Capital 18 km from the spot →
€27,000Home · 44 m²Vilagarcía de Arousa21 km from the spot →
€50,000Flat · 76 m² · 2 roomsMoaña16 km from the spot →
€50,000Semi-detached · 134 m²Vilagarcía de Arousa22 km from the spot →
€53,000Country house · 150 m² · 3 roomsVilaboa18 km from the spot →
€58,000Semi-detached · 60 m² · 1 roomPontevedra Capital 13 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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