french point, Chile

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Lebu, is 771 km away.

Watch this spot We email you when french point is worth the trip.

About french point

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

The spot faces SW (217°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (37°). It is exposed to the open swell. It suits expert surfers. It works in 3–20 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves very steeply: 10 m deep about 50 m out (1 in 1). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hard and thick, like a slab. The sea is about 14°C in September, its coldest month (4/3 wetsuit and boots), and 20°C in February, its warmest (2 mm shorty). For expert surfers the best months are usually March, April, May and June, with about 2 good days in 7. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Lebu, is 771 km away.

Water about 15°C: 4/3 wetsuit and boots. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

Saved: this link opens the same trip

Email it Remind me to book

The link holds the trip itself: nothing about you is kept. Check the forecast again before you book.

Book the trip

Accommodation.
No town nearby
No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Lebu, is 771 km away.
Hire and lessons.
Surf lessons in french point · GetYourGuideAd Board and wetsuit hire in french point · GetYourGuideAd

Everything else for the trip

Where it is

french point on Google Maps · Directions

Surf spot

The map needs JavaScript. Every place on it is listed on this page, and each place's page links to Google Maps.

One finger scrolls the page; two fingers move the map. Pins are our own positions. Map OpenFreeMap, © OpenMapTiles, data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

Forecast

french point does not suit intermediates. This is the forecast for experts, so you can see what it does.

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

Forecast and score for expert surfers at french point, each day
Day	Scorefor Expert	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Sun 18Oct	59, good	7 ft9 sslab	714kJ	wind from the east-north-east, 5 knots, offshore	14°C
Mon 19Oct	69, good	7 ft12 sslab	1,513kJ	wind from the north-east, 18 knots, offshore	15°C
Tue 20Oct	20, poor	7 ft13 sslab	1,590kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 20 knots	15°C
Wed 21Oct	22, poor	6 ft11 sslab	833kJ	wind from the south, 11 knots	13°C
Thu 22Oct	35, poor	6 ft9 sslab	561kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 6 knots	12°C
Fri 23Oct	20, poor	6 ft9 sslab	520kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 12 knots	14°C
Sat 24Oct	13, too small	5 ft9 sslab	336kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 13 knots	14°C
Sun 25Oct	13, too small	4 ft12 smushy	464kJ	wind from the south-south-west, 12 knots	14°C
Mon 26Oct	18, too small	5 ft11 sslab	611kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 13 knots	14°C
Tue 27Oct	42, fair	6 ft10 sslab	555kJ	wind from the south-west, 4 knots	13°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 expert 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 20 of 80.
Wed 21 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 31 of 80.
Thu 22 Oct
Surf french point
Best 15:00 to 18:00 local time: 6 ft at 9 s, wind 6 kn (11 km/h).
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 25 of 80.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 15 of 80.
Sun 25 Oct
Travel home
No way there we can work out.

Book the trip

In the waterAd

Surf lessons · GetYourGuide Board and wetsuit hire · GetYourGuide

Links marked Ad may pay us a small commission if you book. You pay the same price, and it never changes a score.