Evatra, Madagascar

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Toliara, is 392 km away. Nearest airport: FTU (FTU), 16 km.

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About Evatra

Facing, offshore wind, exposure, level and swell range are estimated. Facts: verified, surf details estimated.

The spot faces SW (210°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (30°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up, because of a steep sea floor. It works in 5–20 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves steeply: 10 m deep about 100 m out (1 in 12). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hollow. The sea is about 23°C in July, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 27°C in February, its warmest (no wetsuit). No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Toliara, is 392 km away. Nearest airport: FTU (FTU), 16 km.

Water about 24°C: no wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast

Evatra does not suit intermediates. This is the forecast for experts, so you can see what it does.

The score for experts, coloured as on the area pages:GoodFairPoorToo bigToo small

Forecast and score for expert surfers at Evatra, each day
Day	Scorefor Expert	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	19, too small	3 ft10 shollow	158kJ	wind from the north-east, 20 knots, offshore	25°C
Mon 19Oct	12, too small	3 ft6 shollow	45kJ	wind from the north-east, 17 knots, offshore	24°C
Tue 20Oct	19, too small	3 ft11 shollow	134kJ	wind from the north-east, 21 knots, offshore	25°C
Wed 21Oct	18, too small	3 ft8 shollow	94kJ	wind from the north-east, 13 knots, offshore	25°C
Thu 22Oct	18, too small	3 ft8 shollow	114kJ	wind from the east, 7 knots	24°C
Fri 23Oct	16, too small	3 ft8 shollow	87kJ	wind from the east-north-east, 6 knots, offshore	25°C
Sat 24Oct	12, poor	7 ft8 smushy	638kJ	wind from the south, 16 knots	22°C
Sun 25Oct	66, good	8 ft9 shollow	956kJ	wind from the east-north-east, 10 knots, offshore	22°C
Mon 26Oct	63, good	7 ft9 shollow	743kJ	wind from the north-east, 18 knots, offshore	24°C
Tue 27Oct	28, too small	4 ft9 shollow	231kJ	wind from the north-east, 12 knots, offshore	25°C
Wed 28Oct	0, poor	–	–	–	–

Day scores here are the conditions out of 80; a trip's score on the results is the same conditions out of 100. The journey never scores. The forecast reaches about 10 days. Energy is the swell's power in kJ per metre of wave, from its height and interval: it grows with the square of each, so a long-period swell hits far harder than a short one the same size. The word under the swell is the wave's shape, our estimate from the sea floor. Wind is in knots: 10 kn is about 19 km/h. The arrow points where the wind blows to; offshore wind, blowing from the land out to sea, is green and says so.

Your trip, day by day

6 nights from Mon 19 Oct, leaving from Chicago, for expert surfers. Change dates

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Wed 21 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Thu 22 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 18 of 80.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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