Windmill Bight, Canada

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Harbour Grace, is 178 km away. Nearest airport: YQX (YQX), 83 km.

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About Windmill Bight

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

The spot faces NE (49°), so it takes swell from the NE. The wind blows offshore from the SW (229°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up. It works in 5–18 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves gently: 10 m deep about 800 m out (1 in 81). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about -1°C in March, its coldest month (5/4 or 6/5, hood, boots and gloves), and 14°C in August, its warmest (4/3 wetsuit and boots). No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Harbour Grace, is 178 km away. Nearest airport: YQX (YQX), 83 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 bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Harbour Grace, is 178 km away. Nearest airport: YQX (YQX), 83 km.
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Forecast

Windmill Bight 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 Windmill Bight, each day
Day	Scorefor Intermediate	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	37, fair	4 ft8 smushy	188kJ	wind from the west, 19 knots, offshore	6°C
Mon 19Oct	49, good	5 ft8 smushy	254kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 14 knots, offshore	7°C
Tue 20Oct	26, too small	3 ft9 ssoft	120kJ	wind from the south-west, 11 knots, offshore	9°C
Wed 21Oct	33, too small	5 ft6 smushy	132kJ	wind from the north, 5 knots	4°C
Thu 22Oct	20, too small	3 ft8 smushy	123kJ	wind from the south, 12 knots	6°C
Fri 23Oct	2, too small	2 ft8 smushy	75kJ	wind from the north, 25 knots	5°C
Sat 24Oct	0, too big	8 ft8 smushy	760kJ	wind from the north-east, 12 knots	4°C
Sun 25Oct	37, fair	4 ft8 smushy	148kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 8 knots, offshore	8°C
Mon 26Oct	24, too small	3 ft7 smushy	71kJ	wind from the west, 5 knots, offshore	10°C
Tue 27Oct	11, too small	2 ft7 smushy	44kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 13 knots, offshore	8°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

Mon 19 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Tue 20 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Wed 21 Oct
Surf Windmill Bight
Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 5 ft at 6 s, wind 5 kn (10 km/h).
Thu 22 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 2 ft at best.
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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