Surf seasons

Somewhere is always in season.

The 97 breaks we score alternate hemispheres and swell sources, so every month of the year has a real season somewhere. Pick your month; each page ranks the breaks whose best band covers it, with observed round-trip fares.

Seasons are medians from years of hindcast (methodology), not a forecast. Spot-by-spot detail lives on the spots index.

We watch all twelve months so you do not have to

BarrelFare checks the surf forecast and live airfare together at all 97 breaks, and tells you when a cheap flight lands on a good swell.

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