Checking the wind…
French Channel coast
Offshore wind. Too dangerous.
Water 11 °C · 4/3 or 5/4 wetsuit
Best chance this week: Thursday 8-18h, up to 31 kn.
Offshore wind. You'll be blown out to sea.
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| AROME | 6 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 14 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 14 | 13 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| ICON | 5 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 11 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 14 | 14 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 19 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 22 | 21 | 21 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| GFS | 8 | 8 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 13 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 13 | 16 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 16 | 18 | 21 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 17 | 20 | 19 | 22 | 24 | 26 | 28 | 28 | 28 | 29 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 28 | 26 | 26 | 24 | 23 | 19 | 19 | 21 | 21 | 28 | 31 | 35 | 24 | 20 | 18 | 20 | 23 | 24 | 23 | 23 | 22 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 29 | 29 | 27 | 27 | 26 | 25 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 24 | 24 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 12 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 15 | 16 | 18 |
| Direction | S | S | S | SSE | SE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | ESE | SE | SE | SE | SSE | SSE | SSE | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | SSW | S | S | SSW | S | SSW | SSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WNW | WNW | W | W | W | W | W | W | W | WNW | W | WSW | WSW | SW | SSW | S | SSE | SSE | SSE | SSE | SE | SE | SE | SSE | SSE | S | S | SSW | SW | SW | SW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | WSW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | WSW | WSW | WSW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SW | SSW | SSW | SSW | S | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | ENE | NE | NE | NE | NNE | NNE | NNE | NNE | NNE | NNE | N | N | N | NNW | NNW | NNW | NNW | NW | NW | WNW | WNW | W | WSW | WSW | WSW | SW | SW | SSW | SSW | SSW | S | S |
| Kite | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | – | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 7m | 7m | 7m | 7m | 7m | 7m | 7m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 9m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | 12m | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Waves | 0.767s | 0.747s | 0.727s | 0.687s | 0.667s | 0.647s | 0.627s | 0.67s | 0.66s | 0.586s | 0.586s | 0.566s | 0.546s | 0.526s | 0.55s | 0.55s | 0.485s | 0.485s | 0.484s | 0.484s | 0.524s | 0.584s | 0.624s | 0.644s | 0.644s | 0.664s | 0.724s | 0.784s | 0.844s | 0.94s | 0.964s | 1.024s | 1.044s | 1.064s | 1.084s | 1.14s | 1.144s | 1.164s | 1.264s | 1.384s | 1.485s | 1.545s | 1.625s | 1.685s | 1.645s | 1.585s | 1.545s | 1.485s | 1.445s | 1.385s | 1.325s | 1.265s | 1.26s | 1.146s | 1.16s | 1.046s | 16s | 0.966s | 0.926s | 0.926s | 0.946s | 0.946s | 0.966s | 0.985s | 15s | 0.985s | 0.965s | 0.945s | 1.15s | 1.265s | 1.425s | 1.545s | 1.645s | 1.765s | 1.825s | 1.866s | 1.926s | 1.926s | 1.96s | 1.96s | 1.866s | 1.86s | 1.766s | 1.826s | 1.886s | 1.946s | 1.96s | 1.846s | 1.86s | 1.86s | 1.826s | 1.826s | 1.786s | 1.766s | 1.726s | 1.746s | 1.786s | 1.86s | 1.726s | 1.626s | 1.546s | 1.56s | 1.486s | 1.446s | 1.466s | 1.485s | 1.55s | 1.485s | 1.485s | 1.465s | 1.425s | 1.385s | 1.346s | 1.426s | 1.56s | 1.586s | 1.526s | 1.466s | 1.46s | 1.386s | 1.366s | 1.346s | 1.326s | 1.286s | 1.266s | 1.26s | 1.126s | 1.066s | 1.226s | 1.386s | 1.546s | 1.76s | 1.866s | 2.026s | 1.986s | 1.946s | 1.96s | 1.846s | 1.766s | 1.76s | 1.666s | 1.626s | 1.586s | 1.546s | 1.486s | 1.446s | 1.46s | 1.346s | 1.36s | 1.266s | 1.246s | 1.26s | 1.187s | 1.147s | 1.127s | 1.17s |
| Current | 0.3 | 0.8 | 1.7 | 1.6 | 1.0 | 0.5 | slack | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.4 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.9 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | slack | 0.5 | 1.5 | 2.1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 1.0 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.5 | slack | 0.8 | 1.6 | 1.6 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.5 | 0.3 | slack | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 1.3 | 1.6 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 0.7 | slack | 0.7 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.6 | 0.3 | slack | 0.8 | 1.4 | 1.1 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.5 | 0.4 | slack | 0.7 | 1.3 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.8 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.8 | 0.6 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 1.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 | 1.0 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.0 | 0.8 | 0.3 | 0.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 0.3 | 0.5 | 1.4 | 1.6 | 1.3 | 1.2 | 0.8 |
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Log your sessions; that is how Windulu gets to know you.
The advice is a tool. You remain responsible for your own safety.
Malo-les-Bains is the seaside resort of Dunkirk, where the préfecture maritime has divided some three and a half kilometres of beach into swimming zones and access channels, with a 450-metre zone at Terminus that is for kitesurfing only. The beach faces north-north-west, so north-west to north is onshore and west-north-west and north-east come in side-on, while a south-westerly is already side-off and south-east to south blows straight off the land. Because the beach is flat, the waterline is a long way out at low tide and the 300-metre strip moves with the water. The Météo-France station stands in the harbour, just over five kilometres away, so the live reading is a useful guide here.
When the summer buoys are in place, kiting is only allowed in the 450 m kite zone between the breakwater at Poste Pavois and the sailing lane at Terminus. Outside that zone, a 5-knot speed limit applies all year within 300 m of the shoreline. Source: préfecture maritime, arrêtés 65/2022 and 41/2018.
The open water at Dunkirk (Malo-les-Bains) faces NNW (342°). The safest wind directions to get on the water here are north, northeast and northwest (onshore or cross-onshore). With the wind from the east, southwest and west, it runs cross to cross-offshore: doable, but mind your position and don't go alone. With the wind from the southeast and south, it blows offshore and is dangerous: you'll be pushed off the beach onto open water (no-go).