Vulcansurf 29.2

#5357 of 5756 surf spots in the world · 🇨🇾 Cyprus · Larnaca · near Larnaka

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

Best time to surf Vulcansurf

It rarely works. The nearest airport is LAK (37 km) and the nearest town is Larnaka (9 km).

What is under Vulcansurf

Eight kilometres out along its swell window the sea floor is still shallow, 24 m. Alongside the bank the survey finds a channel, 50 m against 24 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 29.2

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 165° with 36% open water around it. Friendly morning wind 87% of days. Mean peak period 4.3 s. Days over 3 m: 0%. On its best tenth of days it reaches 0.9 m, with a peak period of 6 s. Mellow days (0.4 to 1.2 m): 46%. Months that work: 1 of 12. Coordinates 34.978, 33.701 (OpenStreetMap).

What it costs to be here

Airport and town on the doorstep, so the local estimate is 15% above the country average. Estimate: World Bank PPP price level for Cyprus (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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