Playa Unión, Argentina

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, El Cóndor, is 313 km away. Nearest airport: REL (REL), 22 km.

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About Playa Unión

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

The spot faces SE (114°), so it takes swell from the SE. The wind blows offshore from the NW (294°). It is exposed to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up. It works in 3–10 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves very gently: 10 m deep about 4.3 km out (1 in 435). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about 9°C in August, its coldest month (4/3 or 5/4, boots and gloves), and 18°C in February, its warmest (2 mm shorty). For intermediate surfers the best months are usually February, March, April and May, with about 1 good days in 7; in January and November, about 0. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, El Cóndor, is 313 km away. Nearest airport: REL (REL), 22 km.

Water about 11°C: 4/3 or 5/4, boots and gloves. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, El Cóndor, is 313 km away. Nearest airport: REL (REL), 22 km.
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The score for intermediates, coloured as on the area pages:GoodFairPoorToo bigToo small

Forecast and score for intermediate surfers at Playa Unión, each day
Day	Score for intermediates	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	10, too small	2 ft5 smushy	26kJ	wind from the north, 16 knots	19°C
Mon 19Oct	13, too small	3 ft5 smushy	30kJ	wind from the north, 16 knots	21°C
Tue 20Oct	19, poor	3 ft5 smushy	45kJ	wind from the north-north-east, 15 knots	20°C
Wed 21Oct	14, poor	3 ft6 smushy	71kJ	wind from the south, 14 knots	13°C
Thu 22Oct	10, poor	3 ft6 smushy	61kJ	wind from the south, 16 knots	11°C
Fri 23Oct	19, poor	3 ft5 smushy	49kJ	wind from the south, 12 knots	11°C
Sat 24Oct	13, too small	2 ft6 smushy	24kJ	wind from the south-east, 9 knots	12°C
Sun 25Oct	11, too small	1 ft6 smushy	9kJ	wind from the north-north-west, 7 knots	18°C
Mon 26Oct	7, too small	1 ft4 smushy	4kJ	wind from the west-north-west, 5 knots, offshore	16°C
Tue 27Oct	16, too small	2 ft4 smushy	12kJ	wind from the south-east, 7 knots	12°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

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 27 of 80.
Wed 21 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 18 of 80.
Thu 22 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 12 of 80.
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 23 of 80.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 2 ft at best.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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