five spot, Mexico

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Bahía de los Ángeles, is 116 km away.

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

The spot faces SW (223°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (43°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up. It works in 2–9 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves moderately: 10 m deep about 300 m out (1 in 31). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would crumble. The sea is about 15°C in April, its coldest month (4/3 wetsuit and boots), and 21°C in August, its warmest (2 mm shorty). For intermediate surfers the best months are usually October, November and December, with about 3 good days in 7; in March, April and May, about 1. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Bahía de los Ángeles, is 116 km away. Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 20°C: 2 mm shorty. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast and score for expert surfers at five spot, each day
Day	Score for experts	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	13, too small	2 ft13 shollow	126kJ	wind from the east-north-east, 8 knots, offshore	27°C
Mon 19Oct	12, too small	2 ft10 scrumbling	105kJ	wind from the north-east, 3 knots, offshore	26°C
Tue 20Oct	15, too small	3 ft10 scrumbling	146kJ	wind from the east, 3 knots	25°C
Wed 21Oct	14, too small	3 ft11 scrumbling	157kJ	wind from the west, 4 knots	24°C
Thu 22Oct	9, too small	3 ft10 smushy	160kJ	wind from the west-north-west, 7 knots	23°C
Fri 23Oct	10, too small	5 ft7 smushy	189kJ	wind from the north-west, 11 knots	24°C
Sat 24Oct	14, too small	3 ft6 smushy	74kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 3 knots	26°C
Sun 25Oct	8, too small	2 ft6 smushy	30kJ	wind from the south-west, 1 knot	26°C
Mon 26Oct	3, too small	2 ft7 smushy	28kJ	wind from the west-north-west, 6 knots	24°C
Tue 27Oct	5, too small	2 ft5 smushy	22kJ	wind from the north-west, 9 knots	23°C

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.

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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
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 26 of 80.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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