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Loran Point - Adak, United States

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Cold Bay, is 980 km away. Nearest airport: ADK (ADK), 14 km.

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About Loran Point - Adak

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

The spot faces N (353°), so it takes swell from the N. The wind blows offshore from the S (173°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up, because of a steep sea floor. It works in 3–10 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves very steeply: 10 m deep about 50 m out (1 in 2). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hard and thick, like a slab. The sea is about 4°C in January, its coldest month (5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves), and 10°C in August, its warmest (4/3 or 5/4, boots and gloves). For intermediate surfers the best months are usually April, June, July and August, with about 1 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Cold Bay, is 980 km away. Nearest airport: ADK (ADK), 14 km.

Water about 8°C: 5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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    No town nearby

    No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Cold Bay, is 980 km away. Nearest airport: ADK (ADK), 14 km.

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Forecast

Loran Point - Adak does not suit beginners. This is the forecast for intermediates, so you can see what it does.

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

Forecast and score for intermediate surfers at Loran Point - Adak, each day
DayScorefor Inter­mediateSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct26, too small3 ft6 shollow47kJwind from the south-west, 10 knots8°C
Mon 19Oct5, too small2 ft5 smushy23kJwind from the west-north-west, 14 knots7°C
Tue 20Oct20, poor3 ft5 shollow42kJwind from the north-west, 8 knots7°C
Wed 21Oct24, too small3 ft5 shollow27kJwind from the north, 8 knots6°C
Thu 22Oct14, too small3 ft5 shollow29kJwind from the south-south-west, 18 knots, offshore10°C
Fri 23Oct7, poor3 ft9 shollow176kJwind from the south-west, 16 knots8°C
Sat 24Oct0, too big6 ft8 sslab400kJwind from the west-south-west, 15 knots8°C
Sun 25Oct37, fair4 ft8 shollow142kJwind from the south, 25 knots, offshore9°C
Mon 26Oct35, too small2 ft9 shollow82kJwind from the south-south-east, 12 knots, offshore9°C
Tue 27Oct40, fair3 ft8 shollow86kJwind from the south-south-east, 19 knots, offshore9°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
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 32 of 80.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 26 of 80.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 33 of 80.

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 28 of 80.

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 0 of 80.

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    No way there we can work out.

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