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Surf Morocco · Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra

Tarfaya

A small, windy desert town on Cape Juby where Fuerteventura shelters the coast from most NW swell, so the town beach is often flat; on the days it breaks, it peels both ways, and the north-facing shore is the place to check first.

The Casa Mar fort in the sea at Tarfaya
"Casa Mar Fortress in Tarfaya 2011" by Bjørn Christian Tørrissen, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Intermediatelevel
Beach break, lefts and rightswave
Not ratedcrowd (weekends)
Nbest swell
SE offshorebest wind
All tides, better on a rising tidetide
Reef and sandbottom

When to go

Season not given by our sources.

Best: not given

Wind and kite

A windy town; no source found describing a kite spot here.

How to get there

the town beach by the old Casa Mar fort on Cape Juby; Laâyoune Hassan I airport (EUN) about 93 km in a straight line

TarfayaTarfayaFoum El OuedPlage BlancheCape BoujdourSidi IfniLegziraMirleft

3 spots in Laâyoune-Sakia El Hamra on Wakha. See it on the whole coast.

Sources, checked 2026-11-15
  1. Surfnerd: Tarfaya

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