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Nagahama, Japan

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Amagasaki, is 624 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 8 km.

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About Nagahama

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

The spot faces NW (293°), so it takes swell from the NW. The wind blows offshore from the SE (113°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits beginners and up. It works in 4–15 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves gently: 10 m deep about 600 m out (1 in 61). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about 20°C in February, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 29°C in August, its warmest (no wetsuit). No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Amagasaki, is 624 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 8 km. Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 27°C: no wetsuit. 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, Amagasaki, is 624 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 8 km.

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Forecast

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

Forecast and score for expert surfers at Nagahama, each day
DayScore for expertsSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct17, too small3 ft5 smushy45kJwind from the east-south-east, 11 knots, offshore27°C
Mon 19Oct10, too small2 ft7 smushy55kJwind from the west-south-west, 1 knot27°C
Tue 20Oct12, too small3 ft10 ssoft141kJwind from the south, 3 knots27°C
Wed 21Oct16, too small4 ft11 smushy371kJwind from the west, 7 knots27°C
Thu 22Oct28, poor6 ft11 ssoft777kJwind from the north-east, 13 knots22°C
Fri 23Oct30, too small5 ft11 ssoft578kJwind from the east-north-east, 16 knots, offshore24°C
Sat 24Oct27, too small5 ft8 smushy224kJwind from the south-east, 13 knots, offshore28°C
Sun 25Oct12, too small3 ft7 smushy57kJwind from the east-south-east, 9 knots, offshore26°C
Mon 26Oct11, too small2 ft7 smushy53kJwind from the south-east, 9 knots, offshore26°C
Tue 27Oct4, too small2 ft8 smushy30kJwind from the west-south-west, 4 knots27°C
Wed 28Oct0, 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

  1. Mon 19 Oct
    Travel out

    No way there we can work out.

  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 3 ft at best.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 4 ft at best.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 31 of 80.

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Surf Nagahama

    Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 5 ft at 11 s, offshore wind.

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 5 ft at best.

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    No way there we can work out.

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