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Ifaty, Madagascar

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Ifaty. Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Ifaty

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

The spot faces SW (243°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (63°). It is exposed to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up. It works in 2–8 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves gently: 10 m deep about 650 m out (1 in 67). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about 24°C in August, its coldest month (no wetsuit), and 30°C in February, its warmest (no wetsuit). For intermediate surfers the best months are usually January, February, March and April, with about 1 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. The town to stay in is Ifaty, 1.9 km away (about 5 min by car).

Water about 26°C: no wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast

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

DayScoreSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct524 ft11 ssoft294kJ31°C
Mon 19Oct373 ft10 ssoft134kJ32°C
Tue 20Oct403 ft10 ssoft192kJ30°C
Wed 21Oct484 ft10 ssoft249kJ32°C
Thu 22Oct494 ft8 smushy168kJ30°C
Fri 23Oct253 ft7 smushy65kJ30°C
Sat 24Oct224 ft6 smushy104kJ29°C
Sun 25Oct09 ft10 ssoft1,452kJ28°C
Mon 26Oct464 ft9 ssoft233kJ30°C
Tue 27Oct183 ft9 smushy127kJ30°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 intermediate surfers. Change dates

  1. Mon 19 Oct
    Travel out

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  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Surf Ifaty

    Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 3 ft at 10 s, wind 5 kn (9 km/h).

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Surf Ifaty

    Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 4 ft at 10 s, wind 2 kn (5 km/h).

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Surf Ifaty

    Best 18:00 to 21:00 local time: 4 ft at 8 s, wind 5 kn (9 km/h).

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Surf Ifaty

    Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 3 ft at 7 s, wind 7 kn (12 km/h).

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Surf Ifaty

    Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 4 ft at 6 s, wind 13 kn (24 km/h).

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

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