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TORRE VALENTINA 29.4

#5348 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇪🇸 Spain · Gerona · near Mataró

Wind is the enemy here, gentle enough to learn.

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TORRE VALENTINA, Spain
Photo: Smartgourmet · CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
Surf score29.4 /100
Surfable days44% of the year
Clean days0% groundswell + friendly wind
Groundswell0% period 11 s+
Typical size0.5 m 1.8 ft median
Water19°C a 2 mm shorty

Best time to surf TORRE VALENTINA

It rarely works. The nearest airport is BCN (104 km) and the nearest town is Mataró (63 km).

MonthSurfableCleanSizeWaterSuit
Jan55%0%0.6 m14°C4/3
Feb48%0%0.6 m13°C4/3
Mar68%0%0.8 m14°C4/3
Apr58%0%0.7 m15°C4/3
May32%0%0.5 m18°C3/2
Jun23%0%0.4 m23°Cvest
Jul10%0%0.4 m26°Cboardies
Aug19%0%0.4 m27°Cboardies
Sep39%0%0.5 m25°Cboardies
Oct54%0%0.6 m22°Cvest
Nov71%0%0.8 m18°C3/2
Dec51%0%0.6 m15°C4/3

What is under TORRE VALENTINA

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor sits over 53 m.

Depth 8 km out53 m
Depth 4 km out42 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 29.4

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.

Wave quality 34.7%
10.1
Best days 22.4%
3.4
Clean days 18.4%
0.0
Consistency 10.2%
4.8
Season spread 4.1%
1.9
Water comfort 6.1%
2.7
Access 4.1%
2.7

The detail

Faces 155° with 39% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 87% of days. Mean peak period 5.2 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 1.1 m, with a peak period of 7 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 61%. Months that work: 6 of 12. Coordinates 41.839, 3.096 (OpenStreetMap).

Live here

27 homes for sale within 30 km of TORRE VALENTINA, up to 60,000 euro. Houses and flats you can move into, never plots of land. Cheapest right now €22,000. Checked 2026-09-13. Listings from Fotocasa and the agents themselves; we take no part in the deal.

€22,000Flat · 71 m² · 1 roomGirona26 km from the spot →€31,400Flat · 68 m²Girona26 km from the spot →€35,000Flat · 78 m² · 2 roomsLloret de Mar25 km from the spot →€44,550Flat · 88 m² · 3 roomsGirona26 km from the spot →€47,000Flat · 58 m² · 2 roomsGirona25 km from the spot →€57,812Flat · 72 m² · 3 roomsGirona28 km from the spot →

What it costs to be here

Living here
€1,210/ month
typically €1,060 – €1,350
Rent, one bedroom€633
Groceries€255
Eating out€144
Getting around€85
Phone + internet€89
Renting by the month, cooking most days, local transport.
One month here
€2,350/ month
typically €2,070 – €2,640
Somewhere to stay€1,390
Eating out€497
Car, transfers, fuel€319
Data + extras€153
Short stays, eating out, a car or transfers.
49% cheaper if you live here instead of visiting

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.

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