When to kitesurf in Dakhla

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Dakhla blows all year, but the full season runs April to September, when the northeast trades are strongest and most regular. Wind usually fills mid-morning and settles through the afternoon. A fully dead day in high season is rare. The lagoon is why you come: about 40 km of shallow, flat, sandy-bottom water. Few places offer freestyle water at this scale. Tide runs the show. At high tide most of the lagoon is rideable; at low tide sandbars appear and the space shrinks. Outside there is Atlantic swell (the Speed Spot and breaks further north). The detail that catches people out: despite the Sahara, the Canary Current keeps the water cold. A 3/2 or 4/3 is standard, and desert nights get properly chilly.

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