Mostafa Spot 35.4

#5062 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇱🇧 Lebanon · Mount Lebanon · near Saida

Needs the right swell, wind is the enemy here, gentle enough to learn.

Best time to surf Mostafa Spot

It rarely works. The nearest airport is BEY (19 km) and the nearest town is Saida (12 km).

What is under Mostafa Spot

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is still shallow, 16 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 45 m against 16 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 35.4

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 290° with 42% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 82% of days. Mean peak period 6.2 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.2 m, with a peak period of 8 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 58%. Months that work: 3 of 12. Coordinates 33.666, 35.416 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Airport and town on the doorstep, so the local estimate is 23% above the country average. Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Lebanon (2024, 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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