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Montalvo Beach, Spain

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Playa de montalvo
Montalvo Beach. Photo: Aitor 3187, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Montalvo Beach

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

The spot faces SW (208°), so it takes swell from the SW. The wind blows offshore from the NE (28°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits beginners and up. It works in 4–19 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves gently: 10 m deep about 500 m out (1 in 50). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would spill softly. The sea is about 14°C in January, its coldest month (4/3 wetsuit and boots), and 17°C in June, its warmest (3/2 wetsuit). The town to stay in is Sanxenxo, 3.6 km away (about 10 min by car). Within 5 km we also list 1 surf spot.

Water about 16°C: 3/2 wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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From Chicago: about 17 h 35 door to door, one way. An estimate; the journey never changes the score.

  1. Fly. Chicago O'Hare International Airport (ORD) to VGO, changing at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas Airport (MAD). About 7 flights a week that month.

    See flights ORD → VGO · Skyscanner from about £390 returnAd

  2. Getting there. 45 min from the airport to Montalvo Beach.

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  3. Accommodation.

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  4. Hire and lessons.

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Where it is

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Forecast

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

DayScoreSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct143 ft10 scrumbling113kJ21°C
Mon 19Oct244 ft13 scrumbling420kJ20°C
Tue 20Oct315 ft11 ssoft470kJ16°C
Wed 21Oct507 ft9 ssoft686kJ16°C
Thu 22Oct206 ft9 smushy514kJ16°C
Fri 23Oct5610 ft10 ssoft1,551kJ16°C
Sat 24Oct396 ft9 ssoft546kJ16°C
Sun 25Oct418 ft8 smushy723kJ17°C
Mon 26Oct426 ft8 smushy393kJ18°C
Tue 27Oct456 ft8 smushy429kJ18°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

  1. Mon 19 Oct
    Travel out

    Fly ORD to VGO, changing at MAD, then 45 min by road. About 17h 35 door to door

  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Surf La Lanzada

    Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 5 ft at 11 s, offshore wind.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Surf Foxos

    Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 7 ft at 8 s, offshore wind.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Surf Foxos

    Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 6 ft at 9 s, wind 8 kn (16 km/h).

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Surf Foxos

    Best 14:00 to 17:00 local time: 9 ft at 10 s, wind 4 kn (7 km/h).

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Surf La Lanzada

    Best 11:00 to 14:00 local time: 7 ft at 9 s, wind 4 kn (7 km/h).

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    Fly ORD to VGO, changing at MAD, then 45 min by road. About 17h 35 door to door

The plan picks the best of 4 spots near Sanxenxo each day: Foxos, La Lanzada, Montalvo Beach, Playa Areas - Los Muertos.

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Rough cost

About £905–£1,715 each for 6 nights, 2 people sharing a room. A guide from typical prices, not a quote: check the real prices before you book.

WhatHow we worked it outEach
Flightsreturn ORD to VGO, estimated from distance and season, changing at MAD, full-service airlines, with a hold bag£390–£810
To the UK airportparking or the train, there and back£35–£65
Taxiairport and back, shared£45–£75
Stay6 nights, a mid-range double, shared£185–£310
Food7 days eating out£175–£330
Board and wetsuit5 days, or about £85 to fly your own£75–£125
Total£905–£1,715

Prices from public sources, checked in 2026: where they come from. Lessons, lift-pass deals and insurance are extra.

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