SURF ATLAS/ EUROPE
Belharra
🇫🇷 Saint-Jean-de-Luz, France
A deep-water reef off the Basque coast near Saint-Jean-de-Luz that breaks only a few times a year on giant Atlantic swells. Belharra rises from nowhere into a vast, rolling big-wave face — Europe's original tow-in giant, now paddled by the brave.
REGION
Europe
BREAK
Big Wave
LEVEL
Pro
SEASON
Oct–Feb
BEST SWELL
W–NW XXL groundswell
BEST WIND
S–SE offshore
WATCH FOR
Size, open ocean
LIVE REPORT
reading the buoys…
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