Outside Rodger's Beach 61.1

#3070 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇦🇼 Aruba · Aruba · near Oranjestad

Works almost every day, wind is the enemy here, no off season.

Best time to surf Outside Rodger's Beach

It rarely works. The nearest airport is AUA (16 km) and the nearest town is Oranjestad (19 km).

What is under Outside Rodger's Beach

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor sits over 54 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 61.1

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 180° with 75% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 0% of days. Mean peak period 6.7 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.8 m, with a peak period of 8 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 27%. Months that work: 12 of 12. Coordinates 12.415, -69.890 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Aruba (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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