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Best Time to Surf Puerto Escondido

Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca

Puerto Escondido is a surf break in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, and this page shows the time of year when it usually gets the most surf. The figures are three years of offshore wave data, 2022 to 2024, averaged month by month at the nearest offshore point. The peak surf season at Puerto Escondido is May & Sep, when the average offshore swell is at its biggest.

Peak surf season: May & Sep.

Based on the 3-year average offshore wave height, 2022–2024.

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3-year monthly avg · offshore significant wave height · 2022–2024

Peak surf season:MaySep
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Peak monthsThis monthOff-peakTap a bar for details.
Jan: 3.1ft average swell at 10.4 s from the SSW.
Feb: 3.2ft average swell at 10.9 s from the SSW.
Mar: 3.3ft average swell at 10.9 s from the SSW.
Apr: 3.9ft average swell at 10.8 s from the S.
May: 4.9ft average swell at 11 s from the SSW.
Jun: 4.9ft average swell at 9.7 s from the SSW.
Jul: 4.4ft average swell at 10 s from the S.
Aug: 4.6ft average swell at 10 s from the SSW.
Sep: 5.2ft average swell at 9.8 s from the SSW.
Oct: 4.5ft average swell at 10.2 s from the SSW.
Nov: 3.8ft average swell at 10.2 s from the SSW.
Dec: 2.9ft average swell at 10.2 s from the SSW.

Offshore significant wave height (Hs) from Open-Meteo ERA5 reanalysis, 2022–2024, at 16.0°, -97.0°.

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