The atlas

Every kite destination on Earth

812 places across 1505 spots in 104 countries — wind season, water, level and schools, every value sourced and dated.

That 812 is every place the atlas holds. 432 of them have a destination page of their own; the other 380 are held as a single spot and open on a spot page. They lie in 104 countries, 81 of which have a country guide written so far.

The whole atlas, by country

Destination pages432one page each

Single spots380held as one spot, not a destination

Spots1505

Schools1675

812 placesStrongest month first, then by name

Single spotsThe atlas holds these as one spot rather than as a destination, so each one opens on its spot page. They have no modelled season of their own yet, which is why they sit after the ranking.
CapalbioItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
choppybeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season June to September
Capalbio is a real kitesurf spot on the southern Tuscan coast, ridden off the long sandy beach near Chiarone and along the Lago di Burano stretch.
Capo d'OrlandoItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Capo d'Orlando is on the Tyrrhenian north coast of Sicily, in Messina province, and it is really two spots.
Capo MisenoItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to September
Capo Miseno sits at the Bacoli end of the Phlegraean coast west of Naples, and it is a sea spot rather than a school beach.
Capo SpartiventoItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
Capo Spartivento is the exposed cape at the bottom of mainland Calabria, near Brancaleone.
Castellammare di Stabia / Lido Lo ScoglioItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediate
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to October
Lido Lo Scoglio, at Pozzano on the Castellammare di Stabia shore, is a bay with a beach on the Gulf of Naples, and the public record on it is thinner than for a proper kite beach.
Cat Head BayUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season July to September
Cat Head Bay, also spelled Cathead Bay, is a Lake Michigan spot near Northport at the top of the Leelanau Peninsula.
Cayo de AguaVenezuelasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season every month
Cayo de Agua is a boat day out, not a base.
Cayo Santa MaríaCubasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season December to April
Cayo Santa Maria, in the Cayos de Villa Clara section of the Jardines del Rey, is an all-inclusive resort cay at the end of a 48 km causeway, and the kiting happens off the north-coast hotel beaches: Main Beach, which is flat with chop, and the Melia Buenavista beaches, which run from shallow flat to medium waves depending on the section.
Cayos Siete HermanosDominican Republicsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season December to September
Cayos Siete Hermanos is seven coral-sand cays about 10 km north-west of Monte Cristi Bay: Toruru, Muertos, Ratas, Terrero, Monte Grande, Monte Chico and Arenas.
Cesenatico (Valverde)Italysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppywavesbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
Cesenatico is two kite places under one name.
Chalikounas (Corfu)Greecesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to September
Chalikounas is the long sand bar on Corfu's southwest coast that separates the Ionian Sea from Lake Korission, and it gives you two waters on one drive.
ChascomúsArgentinasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonflat waterchoppybeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedbudget
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to May
Laguna de Chascomus is a freshwater lagoon about 120 km south of Buenos Aires on Ruta 2, beside the city of Chascomus in Buenos Aires Province, with a paved road all the way round it, so you drive to whichever shore the wind is coming onto.
Chat 'N' Chill (Stocking Island)Bahamassingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to April
Chat 'N' Chill is the beach bar on Stocking Island across Elizabeth Harbour from George Town, and it is a kite spot on the days the wind goes south.
Cherry BeachCanadasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to November
Cherry Beach is Toronto's downtown kite spot, a strip of sand and pebbles at the foot of Cherry Street on the inner Lake Ontario waterfront, and the point of it is that you can be on the water 5-25 minutes after leaving the office.
Cirò MarinaItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season September to March
Ciro Marina is two launches under one name, and nobody has settled which one riders actually mean: Punta Alice, on the wide beach below the lighthouse, and the Torrenova seafront along the coast.
Coral CoveGrenadasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to June
Coral Cove sits on the southeast side of the Lance aux Epines peninsula in Saint George, Grenada, about 4 km east of Maurice Bishop International Airport.
CortellazzoItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
Cortellazzo is the Piave river mouth at the eastern end of the Jesolo coast, and it is a wave spot rather than a beach cruise.
CrasquiVenezuelasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season January to July
Crasqui is the freeride cay of Los Roques, about 30 minutes by lancha southwest of Gran Roque.
Cypremort Point BeachUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season September to May
Cypremort Point Beach is a man-made state-park beach on Vermilion Bay, and it faces west, which cuts down the number of wind directions that work.
Dąbki (Lake Bukowo)Polandsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedbudget
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
Dąbki is two spots in one, a strip of Western Pomerania with Lake Bukowo on one side and the open Baltic on the other.
Domburg / WestkapelleNetherlandssingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
wavesintermediateadvancedmid-range
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
Domburg and Westkapelle are two exposed Walcheren wave beaches on the Dutch North Sea coast, a few kilometers apart.
DongfangChinasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppywavesintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season July to September
Dongfang is Hainan's west coast in summer.
Drepano (Achaia)Greecesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April, May, June, July, September and October
Drepano is a narrow cape in the Gulf of Corinth, 16 km northeast of Patras and looking across at Nafpaktos, and the spit is the whole reason the spot works: it holds a pocket of flat water on its lee while the water downwind of it turns to chop.
DuncannonIrelandsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season every month
Duncannon is a long south-facing strand at the mouth of Waterford Harbour, on the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, and the water in front of it is flat and shallow.
Dunkerque - Malo-les-BainsFrancesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Malo-les-Bains is the town beach of Dunkerque on the Dunes de Flandre coast, a long strip of North Sea sand facing north with a huge foreshore at low tide, and there is wind in every month.
East BeachUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September, October and November
East Beach is the Gulf-side sand at the east end of Galveston Island, inside R.A.
Edisto Beach Bay PointUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Bay Point, the South End of Edisto Beach, is the southwest tip of the island where the South Edisto River and Big Bay Creek run out into St. Helena Sound.
El CóndorArgentinasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to April
El Condor is the beach at the mouth of the Rio Negro, 30 km from Viedma, and the wind there changes direction more often than most riders expect.
El JadidaMoroccosingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
wavesintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
El Jadida is the urban Atlantic beach of a working town, and as a kite spot it belongs to the riders who live between Casablanca and Safi.
Ellenbogen (Sylt)Germanysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March to November
Ellenbogen is the hook of sand at the very north of Sylt, and the kiting is in Königshafen, the bay on its south/east side, not on the outer north beach.
Elly BayIrelandsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, September and October
Elly Bay is a Blue Flag sandy beach on the Mullet Peninsula near Belmullet, and it is two spots wearing one name.
Emerald Isle (Bogue Banks)USAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March to November
Emerald Isle sits at the western end of Bogue Banks, the Atlantic Ocean on the south side and Bogue Sound on the north.
ExcenevexFrancesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season January to May
Excenevex is the Bise spot on the French shore of Lake Geneva, a sandy beach (the only natural one on this side of the lake) about 36 minutes by car from Geneva Airport.
FalassarnaGreecesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
wavesintermediateadvancedbudget
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to May
Falassarna is a long, exposed west-Crete beach near Platanos and Kissamos: roughly 3 km of coast broken into sandy sections with rocks and dunes between them.
Fiesta IslandUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season August
Enchanted Cove on Fiesta Island is where San Diego teaches kiting: shallow flat water inside Mission Bay, a sandy launch, next to no swell or current.
FiumarettaItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to October
Fiumaretta is the beach at the mouth of the Magra, on the Liguria-Tuscany border.
Floras LakeUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April to October
Floras Lake is fresh water behind the dunes south of Bandon, near Langlois, a lake the Pacific never gets into.
FollonicaItalysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppybeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedmid-range
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March to October
Follonica sits on the Gulf of Follonica, and most of the kiting that gets called Follonica actually happens at Puntone di Scarlino, just south of town.
Fort Desoto ParkUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season October to April
Fort De Soto is a Pinellas County park on Mullet Key, at the mouth of Tampa Bay south of St. Petersburg, with more than seven miles of waterfront and nearly three miles of white sand beach.
Fort StevensUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
wavesintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season May to September
Fort Stevens is the last beach before the Columbia empties into the Pacific, and what happens there is ocean kiting: swell, shore break, cold water, and a beach so long that the standard session is a downwinder rather than a lap.
Genipabu - Barra do RioBrazilsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedmid-range
1 spot0 schoolsIn season July to December
Genipabu - Barra do Rio is the beach at the mouth of the Ceará-Mirim river, north of Natal in Extremoz, about 27 km by road from the airport.
Gilgo BeachUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
wavesintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season April, May, September and October
Gilgo is ocean water on Jones Beach Island, an Atlantic wave beach and no place to learn.
Grande Anse (Trois-Rivières)Guadeloupesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season December to July
Grande Anse at Trois-Rivieres is a black volcanic sand beach on the south coast of Basse-Terre, looking across to Les Saintes and Dominica.
Gun LakeUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Gun Lake is an inland Michigan lake ridden in two seasons: water in summer, snowkite once it freezes.
Hainer See / WakebeachGermanysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Hainer See is a former lignite-mining lake of about 600 ha, roughly 20 minutes by car from Leipzig's city boundary, and Wakebeach on the north shore is the one place on the Leipzig-region lakes where kiting is more or less tolerated; everywhere else it is largely prohibited under Saxon shipping rules, as of 2026.
Half Moon BaySaudi Arabiasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season March, April, May, June, September, October and November
Half Moon Bay is a shallow protected Saudi bay on the Arabian Gulf coast south of Al Khobar, and it is flat.
HamresandenNorwaysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppybeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season October to April
Hamresanden is Kristiansand's longest beach, about 3 km of sand sitting right beside Kristiansand Airport, Kjevik.
Hermanus LagoonSouth Africasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season October to March
Hermanus Lagoon is the Klein River Estuary behind Grotto Beach, and the pairing is the reason to come: flat brackish water on one side of the sand strip, Atlantic waves on the other.
Higbee BeachUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Higbee Beach is a Cape May launch for NW and W wind, which in practice means fall and winter.
HolnisGermanysingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season every month
Holnis is the beach on the east side of the Holnis peninsula, just north of Gluecksburg on the Flensburg Fjord, and it is mostly a flat-water spot: a broad sandy shelf you can stand on for 80-100 m, light chop on a normal day, and a small shore break or a wave off the sandbank only when a strong southeast pushes swell into the fjord.
HondarribiaSpainsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
intermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsNo season recorded
Hondarribia is the sheltered option at the mouth of the Bidasoa, inside Bahia de Txingudi, for days when the open Basque coast is too rough.
Huguenot Memorial ParkUSAsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to May
Huguenot Memorial Park gives you ocean, inlet and a tidal lagoon inside one park gate.
Ideal BeachIndiasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
choppyintermediateadvancedmid-range
1 spot0 schoolsIn season May to September
Ideal Beach is a small, community-listed spot at Pattipulam near Mahabalipuram, on the Bay of Bengal side of Tamil Nadu.
IfatyMadagascarsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season June to September
Ifaty sits north of Toliara on Madagascar's southwest coast, along the Ifaty/Mangily/Ambolomailaka strip.
Îles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands)Canadasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season June to September
Quebec's Iles de la Madeleine, the Magdalen Islands, have 12 marked kite areas on the official wind-sports map, and they are nothing like each other.
Îlet à CaretGuadeloupesingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
beginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season December to April
Îlet à Caret is a sandbank with a few palm trees on it, off the Basse-Terre coast near Sainte-Rose, and you get there by hiring a fishing boat at the small harbour of Mourne-Rouge for about 15 EUR per person (undated).
Ilha de Faro / Ria FormosaPortugalsingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season every month
Praia de Faro sits on the barrier island at the edge of the Ria Formosa lagoon system, near Faro Airport.
Ilot TeniaNew Caledoniasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
lagoonflat waterwavesbeginner-friendlyintermediateadvancedexpensive
1 spot0 schoolsIn season November to March
Ilot Tenia is an uninhabited islet off the Boulouparis and Bouraké coast in Province Sud, and getting there takes half a day: drive out from Nouméa to Bouraké or Port Ouenghi, then a boat taxi.
Inverloch (Andersons Inlet)Australiasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
flat waterchoppybeginner-friendlyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season October to March
Anderson Inlet at Inverloch is a Victorian flat-water spot on a tidal estuary beside the town, where the Tarwin River meets Bass Strait.
Isla de los Gatos (Lago de Atitlán)Guatemalasingle spot
Windy daysnot modelled here
Typical windno range recorded
choppyintermediateadvanced
1 spot0 schoolsIn season October to December
Isla de los Gatos is a rock in Lake Atitlán, between Panajachel and Santiago Atitlán, and the only way in is a boat from one of those two towns.

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