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Australia
Seventeen spots spread across four regions in Australia, each running on its own sea breeze: Perth and Rockingham's Safety Bay ride the summer 'Fremantle Doctor' into flat water at spots like Point Walter and Safety Bay's Pond, Melbourne works St Kilda and Altona on Port Phillip Bay's southerlies, the Gold Coast pairs the Spit's flat lagoon with the Narrowneck wave break, and remote Exmouth adds reef-protected Ningaloo lagoons alongside whale sharks.
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Summer (roughly November-March) is peak everywhere except Exmouth's August-March window. It suits everyone from city-based freestylers to riders chasing an empty reef break up north.
How we count
- Places
- 6 towns and 6 single spots
- Beginners
- where a spot record says a beginner can ride; the Beginners page also asks for a school there, so it lists fewer
When to go
month by month, from the towns' own wind series
The windiest town in season each month: its share of windy days
Windiest single town in any month: Perth, 89% of days in February, from the Scarborough Beach series.
No place here is in season in May, so those months carry no figure rather than a zero.
How this is modelled
A weather model's cell over this place, not a station on it. Good for comparing places, weaker for one beach.
Which place is yours
Grouped by region, the most spots first
How this list is ordered
The places are in the order of how many spots each place holds. None of them carries a wind score: the atlas scores wind reliability one spot at a time, against a named weather station and the distance to it, and a place that groups several spots has no single station to stand behind one number.For wind by month, see When to go above.
Standalone spots
Single spots with no town of their own
By region
The country's regions, the most spots first
Best for
Pages that pick the places in Australia for one kind of riding
Destinations
All 12 places, by name
Destinations
All 12 places, by name
Every place in the lists above, by name only, in the order the country guide keeps them.
ExmouthGold CoastMelbournePerthLancelin, north of PerthSafety Bay, south of PerthRye BeachInverloch (Andersons Inlet)Shallow InletSilver BeachBar BeachTannum Sands Beach
Visa & entry
Money
SIM & internet
- Telstra - reported best/widest coverage, 99.7% of population, reaches furthest into regional/rural/remote areas (relevant for Exmouth, Lancelin, Safety Bay); described as the only reliable option once outside major cities
- Optus - decent in cities and along some popular routes, weaker outside them
- Vodafone - budget option, reportedly cities only
- Tourist eSIMs from ~AUD 30 (~$20) for 20GB/28 days (2026); Telstra itself supports eSIM activation directly
Regulation
Calendar & costs
Kite bag rules for your airline
Flying into AustraliaType the carrier you are flying: what it charges for a kite bag, and the year of the policy that says so.
Checked so far for Australia:QantasVirgin AustraliaJetstar
Every carrier, with limits and what riders report at the counter →
Where records disagree
- Virgin Australia sporting-equipment/kitesurf-bag policy: a kite-community source (Seabreeze) reports Virgin Australia revoked a prior free sporting-equipment allowance and now charges extra (~$60 cited), while a general baggage-guide source describes sports equipment as simply counting toward the normal checked allowance with excess/oversize fees only if over weight. Verify directly on virginaustralia.com before booking with kite gear.
Still being checked
We have not verified these yet — tell us if you know.
Show the 4 open questions
- What does a kite bag cost on Qantas, on Jetstar and on Virgin Australia domestic routes?
- What do a beer, a meal, a coffee and a month's rent cost in Australia?
- What are Australia's emergency numbers, is the tap water safe, do you need an IDP, and is kiting regulated nationally?
- Which network gets signal at Exmouth, at Lancelin and at Safety Bay?
Not written yet
Nothing has been written about Insurance, Health and Driving for Australia yet, so there is no section for them above. That is a gap in what we hold, not a sign that there is nothing to know.
Last updated September 2026