Lavanono, Madagascar

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Toliara, is 263 km away. Nearest airport: FTU (FTU), 208 km.

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

The spot faces SW (224°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (44°). It is exposed to the open swell. It suits intermediate surfers and up. It works in 2–9 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves steeply: 10 m deep about 150 m out (1 in 14). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hollow. The sea is about 22°C in July, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 27°C in January, its warmest (no wetsuit). For intermediate surfers the best months are usually January, February, March and April, with about 1 good days in 7; in October and November, about 0. From the weather of past years. No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Toliara, is 263 km away. Nearest airport: FTU (FTU), 208 km.

Water about 24°C: no wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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Forecast and score for expert surfers at Lavanono, each day
Day	Score for experts	Swell	Energy	Wind	Temp
Mon 19Oct	19, too small	3 ft10 shollow	200kJ	wind from the south, 2 knots	31°C
Tue 20Oct	27, too small	4 ft10 shollow	309kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 4 knots	31°C
Wed 21Oct	28, too small	5 ft9 shollow	391kJ	wind from the south-west, 5 knots	28°C
Thu 22Oct	30, too small	5 ft8 shollow	302kJ	wind from the west, 4 knots	30°C
Fri 23Oct	13, too small	3 ft7 shollow	94kJ	wind from the south-west, 4 knots	29°C
Sat 24Oct	22, poor	7 ft8 smushy	484kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 13 knots	25°C
Sun 25Oct	32, poor	8 ft10 shollow	979kJ	wind from the east-south-east, 15 knots	25°C
Mon 26Oct	32, too small	6 ft9 shollow	490kJ	wind from the south-south-east, 6 knots	31°C
Tue 27Oct	15, too small	4 ft9 shollow	216kJ	wind from the west-south-west, 7 knots	26°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 Tue 20 Oct, leaving from Chicago, for expert surfers. Change dates

Tue 20 Oct
Travel out
No way there we can work out.
Wed 21 Oct
Surf Lavanono
Best 18:00 to 21:00 local time: 5 ft at 9 s, wind 5 kn (9 km/h).
Thu 22 Oct
Surf Lavanono
Best 09:00 to 12:00 local time: 5 ft at 8 s, wind 4 kn (8 km/h).
Fri 23 Oct
Rest day
Too small: 3 ft at best.
Sat 24 Oct
Rest day
Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 22 of 80.
Sun 25 Oct
Surf Lavanono
Best 18:00 to 21:00 local time: 8 ft at 10 s, wind 15 kn (28 km/h).
Mon 26 Oct
Travel home
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