Surfing Morocco Surf Spots

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Morocco offers surfers a dazzling array of surf spots. Rocky bottoms alternate with sandy ones, reef breaks with beach breaks. There are many surfing alternatives for all conditions, skills and surf levels. Surfers will find string of first class surf spots down the whole Atlantic coast, from Tangier to Agadir and beyond in the deep south. Join Extreme Sports Cafe in Morocco for your Surf holidays. 

Surfing Morocco - Surf Spots MapMorocco Surf Spots around Agadir - The most famous Morocco surf spots lie just north of Agadir. 
The Agadir area offers a nice choice of waves, very easy for intermediate and beginner surfers and also some secret & more challenging spots. Swells are generated out of the Atlantic Ocean leaning along the Moroccan coastline with incredible regularity and the regions benefits even further due to its geographical make up of points and long sandy beaches. For surfers looking for classic abundant waves Morocco is the surf destination for you.

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Morocco Surf Camp and Surf Lessons near Agadir from Extreme Sports Cafe

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Morocco Surf spots around Agadir.

Surf Spot - Agadir BayMorocco Surf Spots - Agadir Bay
A folding spot when the swell is too big and stormy.

  • Level: Beginners, experienced.
  • Bottom: Sand.
  • Tide: Mid-low.

Surf Spot - Le 11
Left, it can go until 1.5m beyond this it saturates. The takeoff is hollow because the start is from the top of a rock flagstone then unrolls on sand. Surf Spots Morocco - Le 11

  • Level: Intermediate and advanced.
  • Bottom: Rock flagstone and sand.
  • Tide: Mid-low.

Surf Spot - Le 12
Right and left, good for longboard and beginners. Rock bottom but safe wave.  Morocco Surf Spots - Le 12

  • Level: Beginners and intermediate.
  • Bottom: Flat rocks with sand.
  • Tide: Low/mid.

Surf Spot - Banana Beach
Right wave. On the best days the right peak sheltered by the point can offer some good sessions, while on any average day, the long beach break will offer you the opportunity to surf your own waves. Morocco Surf Spots - Banana BeachWell known for soft waves so it is popular among longboarder's and beginners. 

  • Beginners can improve very quickly here because the waves are long and consistent. 
  • Level: All levels.
  • Bottom: Sand with some rock.
  • Tide: Low/mid.

Surf Spot - Spider Morocco Surf Spots - Spider
Right very fast and with power tube section. Starts working at 1.5m swell. 

  • Level: Advanced.
  • Bottom: Flat rocks with sand.
  • Tide: Low/mid.

Surf Spot - Devil's Rock
Beach break right and left, popular with many surfers. An easy wave which can be perfect when the bottom is well in place. Morocco Surf Spots - Devil's RockGoing from 0.5 to 1.50m. Saturated by big swell.

  • Level: Beginners to intermediate.
  • Bottom: Sandy.
  • Tide: Mid.

Surf Spot - Panorama
Panorama is a fast right with excellent shape, located only 500 meters from Taghazout. It is very consistent during winter time, as it requires at least one meter (4ft) groundswell to start working. Panorama Point is a fast and hollow wave. It is usually compared with Anchor point because they are both long, perfect rights. Morocco Surf Spots - Panorama

  • Right point, funny wave good for beginners.
  • Level: All levels.
  • Bottom: Sandy bottom.
  • Tide: Low tide.

Surf Spot - Anchor Point 
The most beautiful and the longest right-sided of our area. It is appreciated by many surfers but it does require quite a reasonable level. A very powerful take off starting from 2m. Waves can go from 1 to 4.5m. Caution! 

  • Fetish place for the local surfers. You must respect locals. Surf Spots Morocco - Anchor Point
  • Jimmy Hendrix named the area in 1967 due to the anchors that had been left there from earlier times.
  • Level: Intermediate to advanced.
  • Bottom: Sandy with rock.
  • Tide: All tides. Low, mid, high.

Surf Spot - Mysteries
Between the several breaks located next to Anchor, this one seems to pick up more swell than the other spots. Entry is from the beach. Mysteries works fine from 2 to 6 feet, the incoming set will materialise to you when the Atlantic Ocean is really pumping. Surf spots Morocco - Mystery

  • Good right, reef break very fast and powerful take off.'s.
  • Level: Intermediate and advanced.
  • Bottom: Flat rocks with sand.
  • Tide: Low and mid. 

Surf Spot - La Source (The Well - English)
A well, a natural fresh water spring which rises through the rocks on the high tide line, shapes this wave, making it work in a 2 to 6 feet range, offering both lefts and rights. Here dolphins are an almost daily sight on their daily fishing outing from Cape Ghir in the North. Surf Spots Morocco - La Source

  • Good right and left, saturated by big swell.
  • Level: Intermediate /advanced.
  • Bottom: Sandy with rock bottom.
  • Tide: Low and middle. 

Surf Spot - Killer Point
This spot is for experienced surfers only since it’s a very fast, hollow and long (runs 150mt) wave. Killer point is one of the best waves in the area. The spot is supposedly named after the killer whales that are sometimes seen there. Morocco Surf Spots - Killer Point

  • Long right, point break,very fast with some barrels section
  • Level: Advanced.
  • Bottom: Flat rocks.
  • Tide: Low. 

Surf Spot - Desert Point 
It's a point break that breaks at low tide like the majority of the points here. It starts working at 4ft and can be up to 500m long. Morocco Surf Spots - Desert Point

  • Right very fast, strong current when she's bigger.
  • Level: All Levels.
  • Bottom: Rock and sand.
  • Tide: Low/middle.

Surf Spot - Dracula
This is a spot for advanced surfers. Dracula has a tricky paddle out and in. Expect long rides with several barrel sections. Vampire teeth shaped rocks give the name to this big swell handler. A fast right hander pushes some punchy often large sets definitely not for the faint hearted. Morocco Surf Spot - Dracula

  • Very strong wave, dangerous rocks, some good barrels sections. Not for beginners.
  • Level:  Advanced.
  • Bottom: 
  • Tide: Low.

Surf Spot - Tamri 
Tamri is a deserted and beautiful beach break that picks up most swell when all the other spots are flat, and with spectacular caves and its own freshwater well. Morocco Surf Spots - Tamri

  • Beach break right and left, an easy wave that can be perfect when the bottom is well in place. 
  • Going from 0.5 to 1.50m. Saturate by large swell.
  • Level: Beginners / intermediate
  • Bottom: Sand.
  • Tide: All tides.

Morocco Surf Camp and Surf Lessons near Agadir from Extreme Sports Cafe

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Who runs our Surfing courses?

Extreme Sports Cafe and it's partners run Surfing courses & experiences in Thailand, MoroccoLanzaroteGran CanariaNorth Spain, Portugal. We are quite confident that we have Europe & Asia covered with a range of exciting, challenging and fun courses or experiences for you to learn to surfing in most parts of the world and will have more surf zones (surfing centers) elsewhere soon...


Where do I take it from here?

You can go on to improve your surfing with more practice and advanced courses allowing you to, take part in competitions worldwide, become an instructor and teach others, join a club and buy your own surfing equipment and go surfing whenever you want. Let us know how we can help...

Surfing books we recommend...

Learn to Surf  By James Maclaren

An introductory guide to the sport of surfing discusses traditional surfing, bodyboarding, and body surfing while offering detailed instructions for the complete beginner.

Conversationally written. No jargon or surf lingo to confuse the beginner. Breaks a potentially difficult and complex subject into easy-to-digest tidbits. Targeted for people who have never so much as picked up a surfboard in their lives, but who are intrigued by this exhilarating sport. Anybody can LEARN TO SURF, let's do it!

Learn to Surf

Surfers's Start-up: Beginner's Guide to Surfing (Start-up Sports) By Doug Werner

This illustrated handbook covers the basics of surfing gear, surfing conditions, safety, surfer etiquette and the history of surfing. Moreover it teaches the novice how to cope: not only with the waves and learning frustrations but with crowds and (gulp!) locals too.

Surfer's Start-up: Beginner's Guide to Surfing (Start-Up Sports)

Fit to Surf: The Surfer's Guide to Strength and Conditioning By Rocky Snyder

Not only is surfing an extremely popular male sport, it is the second fasted growing women's sport, behind golfing, and is destined to become even more popular. Surfing is also an extremely demanding sport, requiring absolute fitness for success. No wonder then, that Rocky Snyder sold thousands of copies of this book in its first, self-published edition with minimal promotion and no bookstore distribution. Fit To Surf is filled with black & white photographs and provides valuable information to the reader about how to create a personal conditioning program specific to surfing. The book is designed to help readers build more surfing strength, enhance endurance, increase balance and coordination, and reduce chances of injury. The book contains sample workouts for the home, gym, and on the water.

Fit to Surf: The Surfer's Guide to Strength and Conditioning

Surfing Fundamentals By Nat Young

128 pages, including 70,000 words of text, 120 black and white photos and sketches, 10 pages of colour. Now in it's fourth printing this book has taught thousands of people to surf. The inside information from four times World Surfing Champion, Nat Young. All the tips from his 43 years of experience, good clean advise for the beginner and the advanced surfer, including how to ride a Shortboard, Longboard, Bodyboard, kneeboard and Wave Ski.

Surfing Fundamentals 

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