Waitpinga Surf Forecast and Surf Reports
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Waitpinga Surf Guide
Waitpinga in Adelaide is an exposed beach and reef break that has fairly consistent surf and can work at any time of the year. Offshore winds are from the north northeast. Clean groundswells prevail and the best swell direction is from the south southwest. Waves at the beach are both lefts and rights as well as left and right hand reef breaks.. Relatively few surfers here, even on good days. Beware of rocks, rips and sharks.
Waitpinga Spot Info
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Reliability: | Todays Sea Temp*: |
very consistent | 14.2°C*ocean temperature recorded from satellite |
Surfing Waitpinga:
The best conditions reported for surf at Waitpinga occur when a South-southwest swell combines with an offshore wind direction from the North-northeast.
What's the best time of year to surf Waitpinga (for consistent clean waves)?
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Interactive Waitpinga surf break location map. View information about nearby surf breaks, their wave consistency and rating compared to other spots in the region. Current swell conditions from local buoys are shown along with live wind speed and direction from nearby weather stations. Click icons on the map for more detail. The nearest passenger airport to Waitpinga is Adelaide International Airport (ADL) in Australia, which is 77 km (48 miles) away (directly). The second closest airport to Waitpinga is Woomera Airport (UMR), also in Australia, 524 km (325 miles) away.

Monday, 4 July 2022, 12:46 Local Time
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Wind State | cross | cross- on |
cross- on |
cross- on |
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Swell History at Waitpinga
Surf stats for Waitpinga, see the swell variation by month or season on the history page here.
Wind History at Waitpinga
Wind stats for Waitpinga, see the variation in direction and stength by month or season on the history page here.
Waitpinga Reviews:
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The beach itself is a fairly straight looking embayment between Newland Head at the eastern end and Waitpinga/Parsons Point to the west end. It is approx 3.2 km long.
The surf at this beach is breaking on top of regularly moving sand banks and is both hollow and walling. The surf here is most ridden between 1.5 m and 3.5 m. The surf steps up out of deeper water in a peaky dumping section before backing off into a wall as it passes into the rip channels.
My favorite time of year is winter because often there is a big SW storm blowing followed by an offshore wind overnight, which is developing a head of the next SW wind change. What does this mean? It means big lumpy looking swell on new sandbanks at Waitpinga with offshores. Often I would paddle out and surf all day alone picking off 4 to 6 meter lumps with barrels comparable to pipeline in Hawaii. This demonstrates Waitpinga's other potential as a real adrenalin junkies fixer upper. The offshores during winter can be intermittent but the other side of the coin is that I have seen offshores for 2 weeks at a time and that happens often in winter.
A 6'8 to 7'2 is good for this bigger winter stuff. best offshores N, and NE, but will accept NW winds better nearer to Waitpinga /Parsons Point.”
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Wave Buoys Nearest To Waitpinga:
- Closest Wave BuoyCape du Couedic Buoy109 mi
- Second closest Wave BuoyCape Sorell Waverider Buoy569 mi
- Third closest Wave BuoyEden Waverider Buoy659 mi
- Fourth closest Wave BuoyBatemans Bay Waverider Buoy665 mi
- Fifth closest Wave BuoyPort Kembla Waverider Buoy713 mi