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Las Lajas, Panama

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About Las Lajas

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

The spot faces SW (205°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (25°). 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 moderately: 10 m deep about 250 m out (1 in 23). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would crumble. The sea is about 28°C in October, its coldest month (no wetsuit), and 30°C in April, its warmest (no wetsuit). For intermediate surfers the best month is usually June, with about 6 good days in 7; in January, about 0. From the weather of past years. The town to stay in is Las Lajas, 3.9 km away (about 10 min by car).

Water about 28°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 18Oct432 ft13 shollow187kJ28°C
Mon 19Oct443 ft10 shollow139kJ29°C
Tue 20Oct382 ft10 shollow108kJ28°C
Wed 21Oct382 ft10 shollow94kJ28°C
Thu 22Oct312 ft11 shollow130kJ28°C
Fri 23Oct443 ft11 shollow147kJ28°C
Sat 24Oct382 ft10 shollow124kJ28°C
Sun 25Oct302 ft9 shollow76kJ29°C
Mon 26Oct242 ft9 shollow44kJ29°C
Tue 27Oct202 ft9 shollow30kJ28°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.

Your trip, day by day

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

  1. Mon 19 Oct
    Travel out

    No way there we can work out.

  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Surf Las Lajas

    Best 07:00 to 10:00 local time: 2 ft at 10 s, offshore wind.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 2 ft at best.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 2 ft at best.

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Surf Las Lajas

    Best 16:00 to 19:00 local time: 3 ft at 11 s, wind 4 kn (8 km/h).

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Surf Las Lajas

    Best 16:00 to 19:00 local time: 2 ft at 10 s, wind 2 kn (3 km/h).

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    No way there we can work out.

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