Langebaan at a glance
- Windiest months
- Nov-JanModel data
- Average wind
- 12 to 13 knots in Nov-Jan, average of all daytime hoursModel data
- Level
- All levels: light mornings, powered afternoons
- Water
- Flat to light chop, deep water · afternoons like clockwork
Model data: weather records from Open-Meteo for this area, not a wind meter on the beach.
Langebaan month by month
| Month | Avg wind | Session days | Air |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 12 kn | 100% | 24°C |
| Feb | 11 kn | 100% | 24°C |
| Mar | 10 kn | 98% | 23°C |
| Apr | 9 kn | 95% | 21°C |
| May | 8 kn | 68% | 18°C |
| Jun | 8 kn | 61% | 16°C |
| Jul | 8 kn | 57% | 15°C |
| Aug | 9 kn | 68% | 16°C |
| Sep | 10 kn | 97% | 17°C |
| Oct | 11 kn | 100% | 21°C |
| Nov | 12 kn | 100% | 23°C |
| Dec | 13 kn | 100% | 23°C |
Model data from Open-Meteo, Jan 2023 to Jul 2026 (about 3.5 years), daytime 9:00 to 18:00. Session days: days with at least 2 hours in a row of 11+ knots (or 16+ knot gusts) between 11:00 and 19:00. Not a wind meter on the beach.
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Each bar: how often it blew between 9:00 and 18:00 in that month, counted over about 3.5 years of weather records for this area. Not a wind meter on the beach: where hills or a gap speed the wind up (Canaries, Tarifa), it often blows more than this shows.
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Kraalbaai
Tested by NP7: we've been here · Flat water, Shallow
A quiet bay on the Langebaan lagoon with flat, waist-deep water far out and a huge sandbank to blast along.
A quiet bay on the Langebaan lagoon with flat, waist-deep water far out and a huge sandbank to blast along.
Kraalbaai is a bay on the Langebaan lagoon, inside the West Coast National Park. The water stays shallow for a long way out, about waist deep, and it is flat. Off the beach there is a huge sandbank, and you can blast along the beach. Nico calls it one of the nicest spots he has been to, if not the nicest. It is completely untouched and you are by yourself out there. On his day it was windy and the wind was pretty steady. Wooden stairs lead from the car park down to the beach, so all your gear goes up and down them. At the end of the day the crew did a downwinder straight across the bay to where they had started: about 50 minutes by car around the lagoon, and by Nico's estimate about 15 minutes on the water.
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