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Anse Cocos

La Digue Group · Anse Cocos, La Digue · La Passe

also known as Anse Coco

Part of Praslin →

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wavesnot for beginnerslow crowds

On this page

The spot
Wind
Forecast
Month by month
Water
Level
The scene
Launch
Schools
Tips
Getting there
Photos
FAQ

Riding essentials

Season

May–Sep

Months riders and schools name

How windy

12-22 knots

Character: trade

Room to launch

access rules on record, below

Water

waves

26.3 °C in summerOpen Indian Ocean beach on La Digue's east coast: clear water, chop, small-to-medium waves

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Intermediate to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

low crowds · busy Jul Aug Sep

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

International Airport (SEZ)

Transfer times under Getting there

When it fills in

There is no fill-in hour to wait for. This is trade wind, not thermal: averaged over the year the modelled wind sits between 10.3 and 10.6 knots at every hour of the day and night, so it is either running or it is not. Plan the session around the pattern and the walk in, not around an afternoon.

Nearbystraight-line distance

Backup spotsWhere riders go when the wind doesn't work here.

Anse Source d’Argent, La Digue
Grand Anse, La Digue
Petite Anse, La Digueno page yet
Côte d’Or, Praslin
Long Island sandbank / Mohana, Mahé areano page yet

The spot

Anse Cocos is a real spot on the exposed east coast of La Digue, and a lightly documented one.

Season and conditions

The season is the May-September southeast trades, which is the same window in which the sea here chops up and turns rough. Reef, granite boulders and current are the flagged hazards, and the water is chop with small-to-medium waves, so read it as an intermediate-to-expert wave session rather than a serviced kite beach.

Access

Access is part of the commitment: no road reaches the sand, the closest facilities are back at Grand Anse, and you walk in on the Grand Anse-Petite Anse trail or come down from Anse Fourmis in the north. Carrying a kite, a board and enough water over that trail changes how long you want to stay.

Rescue and safety

Kiters are rare, but hikers and swimmers gather at the natural pools once the morning is over, and open-bay swimming turns dangerous in swell or current. No live wind station covers the beach and no rescue is documented, so a bad landing is one you sort out yourself, on rocks.

The wind

locals call it Southeast trade winds / southeast monsoon

Direction

cross-onSE

Direction to shore

cross-on

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

Nobody has reported the sizes riders actually use here. Indicative for a 75-85 kg rider, worked out from the modelled wind rather than from sessions on this sand: a 9 m is the workhorse from June to September, when the trade wind averages 13-15 knots and July passes 18 knots about a quarter of the hours; carry a 12 m for May and for the soft days inside the season, and a 7 m for the hardest July and August days.Winter seasonThe October-March northwest season is too light here to be worth a small kite.

Character

trade

When it fills in: see above ↑

Thermal or synoptic

synoptic

Average strength

Typical strength

12-22 knots is the figure given for the May-September southeast trades across the inner islands. Modelled hourly wind at this beach averages 13 knots in June, 15 in July, 15 in August and 14 in September, with 12 knots or more in roughly 82% of July and August hours. The October-March northwest season is a different animal on an east-facing coast: 7-10 knots as a monthly average, and 12 knots or more in under a third of the hours even at its best in February. The season figure quoted for this spot is the June-September mean, not a year-round one, and it is reanalysis rather than a beach anemometer.

Steady enough once the southeast trades are established, though the beach is exposed and the sea state can turn rough. No live station covers Anse Cocos itself.

The southeast trades set in during May, are established by June, peak around July-August with strong wind and rough seas, and stay the relevant regime for exposed southeast beaches into September. May-September is the season here, on SE wind.

The other half of the year is the northwest monsoon, and on this east-facing bay it is weak: modelled monthly averages of 7-10 knots from November to March, with April the deadest month of the twelve at around 6 knots.

April and November are the two months not to book.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

Jan62
Feb78
Mar42
Apr36
May, riders' month74
Jun, riders' month94
Jul, riders' month99
Aug, riders' month100
Sep, riders' month99
Oct82
Nov47
Dec67

per cent of the month at force 4 or more

Ringed months are the ones riders and schools name: May, Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep.

13 ktJan29°
14 ktFeb29°
11 ktMar30°
10 ktApr31°
13 ktMay30°
16 ktJun29°
19 ktJul27°
19 ktAug27°
18 ktSep28°
13 ktOct29°
11 ktNov30°
13 ktDec29°

avg knots per month · water °C below · season highlighted

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (2022-2024), not a ground station: reliable for trade and synoptic winds, understates thermal sea breezes and valley winds.

Every figure, month by monthForce 4+ · Knots · Wind from · Air · Water

Month	Force 4+	Knots	Wind from	Air	Water
Jan	62%	12.7 kt	NW	27 °C	29 °C
Feb	78%	13.7 kt	NNW	27.7 °C	29.4 °C
Mar	42%	10.6 kt	N	27.8 °C	30.3 °C
Apr	36%	10 kt	ESE	27.8 °C	30.9 °C
May	74%	13.2 kt	SSE	27.9 °C	29.9 °C
Jun	94%	16.3 kt	SSE	26.9 °C	28.6 °C
Jul	99%	18.9 kt	SSE	25.6 °C	26.9 °C
Aug	100%	18.5 kt	SE	25.8 °C	26.9 °C
Sep	99%	17.5 kt	SE	26.4 °C	28.2 °C
Oct	82%	13.3 kt	SE	26.8 °C	28.5 °C
Nov	47%	10.8 kt	WSW	27.2 °C	29.5 °C
Dec	67%	13.4 kt	W	26.8 °C	28.7 °C

How this is modelledmodelled · 2022-2024

A weather model's cell over this place, not a station on it. Good for comparing places, weaker for one beach.

The typical daily max and the direction are columns of the table above, month by month. Highlighted months are the riding season from the spot record.

ERA5 reanalysis grid point (modelled) · Open-Meteo historical weather API — ECMWF ERA5/ERA5-Land reanalysis, not a ground station · 2022-2024

The water

Type

waves

Standing depth

Shallow water and natural pools are reported at low tide, but a safe standing-depth riding area across the bay is unconfirmed.

Tides

Shallow at low tide, with waves that get high during trade-wind periods. The best tide window is unconfirmed.

Temperature

26.3 °C summer · 28.8 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 27–31 °C

Wetsuit

Shorts or a rash vest, every season. Mahe-area water stays warm year-round.

Currents

Strong currents and dangerous open-bay swimming are flagged whenever swell or current is running.

Conditions

Open Indian Ocean beach on La Digue's east coast: clear water, chop, small-to-medium waves. The natural rock pools at the north end are used for swimming and are not documented as a riding area. Reef, boulders and current rule the bay out as a teaching lagoon.

Exposure peaks during the southeast trade-wind season.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

not for beginners here

Intermediate at minimum, because of the reef, the rocks and the current; intermediate to expert is the honest range. With a remote walk-in launch, an exposed sea state and no documented rescue, nobody should be learning here.

The scene

What riders come here for

wave ridingscenic freeride for experienced riderswingfoilwindsurf

Remote beach with few people on it most days, though by 2026 the natural-pool end fills with hikers and day visitors once the morning is over. Kite traffic stays low.

Launch and rules

three ways on to the water, and what each one asks of you

With a school or a boat

1 school names this spot

See who they are

On your own

Room to launch: ok

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

2 spots nearby

All 2 spots within 40 km are under Nearby

Rescue

Nothing. No lifeguard post, no rescue boat, no club, and no road a vehicle could reach you by. The nearest people are whoever is walking the Grand Anse trail or sitting at the natural pools, and they are at the north end of the bay.

Self-rescue and a swim or drift back to the sand is the whole plan, and the sand has rocks in it. Whether anything on La Digue or Praslin would come out for a kiter drifting offshore is unconfirmed.

Launch

Walk-in sand launch, reached from Grand Anse via Petite Anse or from the Anse Fourmis and Anse Caiman trails to the north. The beach runs around 450 m by 20 m, backed by trees and granite boulders, with the closest facilities back at Grand Anse.

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: No Anse Cocos-specific kite zoning or permit rule was found. Seychelles Beach Control Act powers allow authorities to set aside beach/inshore-water areas for bathing and other watersports, and prohibit surfboards/watersports in reserved bathing areas; the same regulations require prior written police consent for beach activities likely to endanger, obstruct, inconvenience or annoy other beach users.

Access rules drift faster than anything else we hold — check locally, and propose an edit if this has changed.

Schools that ride here

Rider tips

Line up a forecast and a local kite contact before you carry gear in; no station and no rescue setup covers this beach.
Do not read the natural pools as a rideable lagoon. They are for swimming and snorkelling.
Pack water, sun cover and shoes you can walk the trail in: the hike from Grand Anse takes about 30-40 minutes and nothing on the sand is reliable.
Go early, before the hikers reach the pool end, and leave the north end of the bay to them.
Stay conservative on a strong southeast trade day. The season that brings the wind brings the rough sea and the current with it.
Anse Source d'Argent, on the far side of the island, is the La Digue beach with a real kite operation behind it; Anse Cocos has none. Talk to someone there before you commit a day to carrying gear over the trail.
Do not plan a trip around the northwest season here. November to March averages 7-10 knots on this coast and April drops to about 6.

Getting there

Airport

Seychelles International Airport (SEZ) on Mahé; Praslin Island Airport (PRI) is the nearest domestic airport listed for La Digue-area travel.

Route

International arrival is on Mahé, then ferry to La Digue via Praslin or domestic flight Mahé-Praslin plus the Praslin-La Digue ferry. On La Digue, travel is mainly by bike or on foot; Anse Cocos itself is reached on foot from Grand Anse via Petite Anse, or by the northern path from Anse Fourmis/Anse Caiman.

Transfer

Mahé-La Digue ferry about 90-105 minutes depending on the stopover; Praslin-La Digue ferry about 15-20 minutes; Grand Anse to Anse Cocos on foot about 30-40 minutes.

Cost level

High. Ferry fares run about EUR68-75 one way Mahé-La Digue (2026) and about EUR15-20 Praslin-La Digue (2026), before gear logistics and accommodation.

Staying

Most La Digue accommodation is in small hotels, guesthouses and cottages around the west coast, La Passe and Anse Réunion; Anse Cocos has no reliable facilities on the beach.

No-wind days

hike Grand Anse-Petite Anse-Anse Cocos · natural-pool swimming/snorkelling at Anse Cocos when conditions are safe · Anse Source d’Argent · cycling around La Digue · Veuve Nature Reserve · boat trips/diving/snorkelling from La Digue harbour

Photos

FAQ

When is the best time to kite at Anse Cocos?

The southeast trade-wind season from May to September is best, peaking around July-August.

Is Anse Cocos suitable for beginners?

No, reef, rocks and currents mean an intermediate to advanced level is needed, along with a remote walk-in launch.

What is the wind like?

Southeast trades run 10-20 knots from May to September, versus a lighter 8-12 knots during the October-March northwest trades.

How do you get there?

There is no road to the beach; it is reached on foot from Grand Anse via Petite Anse, about a 30-40 minute walk.

What are the main hazards?

Reef, rocks, granite boulders and strong currents are all reported, with rough seas during the southeast trade season.

The bigger pictureEverything about Praslin

Last updated: August 2026