Sumba - Wanukaka, Indonesia

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Waingapu, is 90 km away. Nearest airport: BMU (BMU), 159 km.

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

The spot faces SE (155°), so it takes swell from the SE. The wind blows offshore from the NW (335°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up, because of a steep sea floor. It works in 3–13 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves very steeply: 10 m deep about 50 m out (1 in 5). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hard and thick, like a slab. The sea is about 26°C in August, its coldest month (no wetsuit), and 30°C in March, its warmest (no wetsuit). For intermediate surfers the best month is usually November, with about 5 good days in 7; in July, August and September, about 1. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Waingapu, is 90 km away. Nearest airport: BMU (BMU), 159 km.

Water about 28°C: no wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Waingapu, is 90 km away. Nearest airport: BMU (BMU), 159 km.
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Sumba - Wanukaka 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 Sumba - Wanukaka, each day
Day	Scorefor Intermediate	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	31, too small	3 ft11 shollow	179kJ	wind from the south-east, 5 knots	31°C
Mon 19Oct	54, good	4 ft12 shollow	430kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 1 knot	30°C
Tue 20Oct	41, fair	5 ft11 sslab	582kJ	wind from the east-south-east, 0 knots	31°C
Wed 21Oct	56, good	4 ft10 shollow	299kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 3 knots	31°C
Thu 22Oct	44, fair	4 ft8 shollow	169kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 1 knot	30°C
Fri 23Oct	35, poor	5 ft12 sslab	722kJ	wind from the east, 2 knots	30°C
Sat 24Oct	0, too big	7 ft12 sslab	1,168kJ	wind from the east-south-east, 3 knots	30°C
Sun 25Oct	0, too big	7 ft11 sslab	1,112kJ	wind from the east-south-east, 3 knots	30°C
Mon 26Oct	0, too big	7 ft10 shollow	917kJ	wind from the south-east, 2 knots	29°C
Tue 27Oct	41, fair	6 ft10 shollow	532kJ	wind from the east-south-east, 4 knots	30°C
Wed 28Oct	0, 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.

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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
Surf Sumba - Wanukaka
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 5 ft at 11 s, wind 0 kn (1 km/h).
Wed 21 Oct
Surf Sumba - Wanukaka
Best 14:00 to 17:00 local time: 4 ft at 10 s, wind 3 kn (6 km/h).
Thu 22 Oct
Surf Sumba - Wanukaka
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 4 ft at 8 s, wind 1 kn (2 km/h).
Fri 23 Oct
Surf Sumba - Wanukaka
Best 08:00 to 11:00 local time: 5 ft at 12 s, wind 2 kn (3 km/h).
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 0 of 80.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

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