Windsurfing in Sankt Peter-Ording
Schleswig-Holstein, Germany · 1 spot
By NP7 Crew · Updated
North Sea sandbanks: flat tideways at low tide, waves further out
Sankt Peter-Ording at a glance
- Windiest months
- Jan*
- Average wind
- 13 knots in Jan, average of all daytime hours*
- Level
- Beginner to advanced
- Water
- Flat tideways at low tide · waves on the outer sandbanks
* Model data: weather records from Open-Meteo for this destination, not a wind meter on the beach.
1 spot in Sankt Peter-Ording
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Ording beach
Tested by NP7: we've been here · Beginner-Advanced · Flat water, Shallow, Choppy, Small waves (0.5-1 m), Medium waves (1-2 m)
Drive onto the beach and rig on the sand: flat tideways at low tide, waves over the sandbanks at high tide.
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Drive onto the beach and rig on the sand: flat tideways at low tide, waves over the sandbanks at high tide.
The main windsurf beach of Sankt Peter-Ording. You drive over the dyke and park right on the sand (paid, open from mid March, daytime only), with a surf school, hire, toilets and food at the beach. Depending on the tide it can be up to 500 m to the water. Best wind is south-west to north-west, blowing slightly onshore. At low tide the tideways run flat and shallow, good for learning. At high tide waves build in front of the sandbanks, and with a steady westerly the outer banks can hold waves up to 3 m, for experienced riders only. Watch out: the tide current runs north on the rising tide and south on the falling tide. When wind and current go the same way you drift, so check the tide table and don't go out alone. Keep to the marked zones and out of the swimming areas. East wind is offshore. On spring tides with high water in the early afternoon the beach car park can flood. From our own session: a westerly storm here is full power onshore, with shore break and short, messy waves, and the gusts were hard to hold. When the beach floods, the drive-on access closes and you carry your gear about half a kilometre through the flooded beach. Stay upwind of the wooden posts in the water.
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About Sankt Peter-Ording
What holds for every spot here.
Germany's North Sea coast on the Eiderstedt peninsula. A huge beach you can drive onto, tideways that run flat and shallow at low tide, and waves over the sandbanks further out. Everything here turns on the tide.
Sankt Peter-Ording month by month
| Month | Wind | Session days | Air |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jan | 13 kn | 87% | 3° |
| Feb | 12 kn | 79% | 4° |
| Mar | 11 kn | 75% | 7° |
| Apr | 11 kn | 79% | 11° |
| May | 11 kn | 83% | 15° |
| Jun | 11 kn | 86% | 18° |
| Jul | 12 kn | 90% | 19° |
| Aug | 10 kn | 81% | 19° |
| Sep | 11 kn | 78% | 18° |
| Oct | 13 kn | 83% | 13° |
| Nov | 11 kn | 77% | 7° |
| Dec | 13 kn | 80% | 5° |
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg wind | 13 kn | 12 kn | 11 kn | 11 kn | 11 kn | 11 kn | 12 kn | 10 kn | 11 kn | 13 kn | 11 kn | 13 kn |
| Session days | 87% | 79% | 75% | 79% | 83% | 86% | 90% | 81% | 78% | 83% | 77% | 80% |
| Air | 3° | 4° | 7° | 11° | 15° | 18° | 19° | 19° | 18° | 13° | 7° | 5° |
Model data from Open-Meteo, Jan 2023 to Oct 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. Air in °C. 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 Ording beach. 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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