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Sumiyoshi, Japan

No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Amagasaki, is 613 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 9 km.

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About Sumiyoshi

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

The spot faces NW (295°), so it takes swell from the NW. The wind blows offshore from the SE (115°). It is sheltered to the open swell. It suits beginners and up. It works in 5–20 ft of swell. The sea floor shelves steeply: 10 m deep about 150 m out (1 in 15). On a typical 5 ft, 11 s swell the waves here would break hollow. The sea is about 20°C in February, its coldest month (2 mm shorty), and 29°C in August, its warmest (no wetsuit). No town nearby. No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Amagasaki, is 613 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 9 km.

Water about 27°C: no wetsuit. Typical sea temperature for the time of year, not a forecast.

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    No town nearby

    No bookable town within 50 km: the nearest, Amagasaki, is 613 km away. Nearest airport: TNE (TNE), 9 km.

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

Forecast and score for expert surfers at Sumiyoshi, each day
DayScore for expertsSwellEnergyWindTemp
Sun 18Oct15, too small3 ft5 smushy50kJwind from the east-south-east, 9 knots, offshore28°C
Mon 19Oct14, too small3 ft7 shollow70kJwind from the south, 4 knots27°C
Tue 20Oct12, too small2 ft11 shollow115kJwind from the west, 1 knot27°C
Wed 21Oct15, too small4 ft10 shollow224kJwind from the north-west, 4 knots27°C
Thu 22Oct26, too small6 ft11 shollow715kJwind from the north-east, 14 knots22°C
Fri 23Oct23, too small5 ft11 shollow461kJwind from the north-north-east, 1 knot24°C
Sat 24Oct24, too small4 ft7 shollow195kJwind from the south-south-east, 12 knots, offshore28°C
Sun 25Oct12, too small3 ft7 shollow67kJwind from the south-east, 8 knots, offshore26°C
Mon 26Oct10, too small2 ft7 shollow50kJwind from the south-south-east, 5 knots, offshore28°C
Tue 27Oct1, too small2 ft8 shollow30kJwind from the west, 11 knots26°C
Wed 28Oct0, 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.

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

    No way there we can work out.

  2. Tue 20 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 2 ft at best.

  3. Wed 21 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 4 ft at best.

  4. Thu 22 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 28 of 80.

  5. Fri 23 Oct
    Rest day

    Nothing worth paddling out for: the best window scores 34 of 80.

  6. Sat 24 Oct
    Rest day

    Too small: 4 ft at best.

  7. Sun 25 Oct
    Travel home

    No way there we can work out.

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