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Bagasbas Beach

Daet, Camarines Norte

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

Riding essentials

Season

Nov–Mar

Months riders and schools name

How windy

18-25 knots

Character: mixed

Room to launch

huge

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

30 °C in summerPacific-facing sandy beach with chop, small to medium waves, and shallow sections

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Dec Jan Feb

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

Naga Airport (WNP)

Transfer times under Getting there

When it fills in

The Amihan is a monsoon flow, not a thermal, so there is no daily switch-on. In the December-February core it can blow steadily through the day and overnight, and a bad day is a lull rather than a late start. Overcast, rainy Amihan spells make it gusty and patchy at any hour. No local hour-by-hour pattern is documented.

Bagasbas Beach has no other spot on this map within 40 km of it, and none other in Daet, Camarines Norte. straight-line distance

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

Pandawan Lagoonno page yet
Mercedes Bayno page yet
Camsur Watersports Complexno page yet
Cagbalete Island, Mauban, Quezonno page yet

The spot

Bagasbas is a Pacific-facing beach at Daet, Camarines Norte, and it works on the Amihan: roughly November to mid-March, when NE to ENE wind commonly runs 18-25 kt and lines up side-onshore over a sandy bottom.

Riding and launch

The riding is mixed rather than flat, with shallow sections, chop and small to medium waves, and on a bigger day the shallow water is where the beach break lands. The sand is long and launch room is never the constraint, but weekends put swimmers, surfers and onlookers on the same stretch, and fishermen work drag nets off the beach.

Safety

Currents are the warning that comes up most often, and this is open ocean with nothing to break the drift.

Facilities and schools

There is food, accommodation and basic beach-town infrastructure along Bagasbas. What there may not be is a kite school: Mike's Kites is reportedly no longer operating, so check school and rescue status before you count on either.

When to go

Take December or January if you only get one week; skip it if you want somebody watching the water.

The wind

locals call it Amihan / northeast monsoon

Direction

cross-on

Direction to shore

cross-on

Dominant direction

NE to ENE in the main season; SW is reported as a lighter summer direction around nearby islands.

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

9-12 m covers the season for a 75-85 kg rider: a 9 m for the normal 18-25 knot Amihan days, a 12 m for the 10-15 knot edges, and a 7 m in reserve for the 30 knot days. What local riders actually reach for most in December-February is not documented.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

18-25 knots November to March. Measured monthly averages for Daet are lower, about 15 knots in December, the windiest month, down to about 9 knots in May, because they include nights and calm spells.

Typical strength

18-25 knots through the northeast monsoon, with the full spread running 10-30 knots. Lulls to 10-12 knots happen inside the season. June to August brings a lighter 10-15 knot southwesterly that is usually ridden off nearby islands by boat rather than at the main beach.

Generally consistent in the Amihan season, but cool, overcast, rainy Amihan weather can make the wind gusty and inconsistent at times.

November to mid-March, with December, January and February the reliable core. December is the windiest month by measured average and the month with the most days of wind, January next. Easterly wind dominates from September through May and swings southerly in the summer months.

Around 208 days of wind a year are counted here. Amihan weather is cool, overcast and often rainy, which can leave the wind gusty and inconsistent even in the good months.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

15 ktJan27°
13 ktFeb27°
12 ktMar27°
10 ktApr28°
9 ktMay29°
9 ktJun30°
9 ktJul29°
10 ktAug29°
9 ktSep29°
11 ktOct29°
13 ktNov28°
15 ktDec27°

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

Modelled monthly averages. Highlighted: the months riders and schools name (Dec, Jan, Feb, Nov, Mar).

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Bagasbas Beach is the coastal barangay of Daet, same town), not a ground station: reliable for trade and synoptic winds, understates thermal sea breezes and valley winds.

Every figure, month by monthKnots · Wind from · Air · Water

Month	Knots	Wind from	Air	Water
Jan	14.6 kt	E	25.6 °C	26.7 °C
Feb	13.4 kt	E	26.1 °C	26.7 °C
Mar	12 kt	E	26.7 °C	27.2 °C
Apr	10 kt	E	27.8 °C	28.3 °C
May	8.6 kt	S	28.3 °C	29.4 °C
Jun	8.6 kt	S	28.3 °C	30 °C
Jul	9.4 kt	S	27.8 °C	29.4 °C
Aug	10 kt	SW	27.8 °C	28.9 °C
Sep	9 kt	W	27.2 °C	28.9 °C
Oct	10.5 kt	E	27.2 °C	28.9 °C
Nov	13.2 kt	E	27.2 °C	27.8 °C
Dec	15.1 kt	E	26.1 °C	27.2 °C

How this is modelledmodelled · 30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Bagasbas Beach is the coastal barangay of Daet, same town

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.

WeatherSpark modeled climatology at Daet, Camarines Norte (Bagasbas Beach's own town) · WeatherSpark (NASA MERRA-2 reanalysis, 30-yr modeled 'typical year') · 30-year modeled climatology (reanalysis); Bagasbas Beach is the coastal barangay of Daet, same town

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

Sandy bottom that shelves gently, so shallow water runs a long way out and the spot is rideable at low tide.It is not a lagoon: the shallow zone is also where the beach break lands, so on a 3-6 ft day the standing-depth water is shorebreak.Which section is used for lessons, and at which tide it is really waist-deep, is not documented.

Tides

Two highs and two lows a day, read off the Daet station 4 km away, in Philippine time (UTC+8). Low tide is the water commonly named as best for kiting; for surfing, all tides work. The bottom is sand throughout, so the tide changes the shape of the wave rather than exposing anything hard.

Temperature

30 °C summer · 27 °C winter

Modelled monthly average: 27–30 °C

Wetsuit

Boardshorts or rash vest; water temperature was 29.3 °C on 27 Aug 2026, and Daet's coolest monthly average water temperature is near 80 F/27 °C in January.

Currents

Currents are the hazard most consistently listed here, and they are described as strong. This is an open Pacific beach with no headland or reef to break the drift, and no rescue boat sits on it, so know where you would come ashore before you go out.

Conditions

Pacific-facing sandy beach with chop, small to medium waves, and shallow sections. Strong wind and waves break over sand rather than reef during Amihan. Regular surf runs 3-6 ft, with bigger days up to about 8 ft.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Shallow water, chop and small waves make this a beginner spot on paper, and intermediates and advanced riders get plenty out of it too. The open-ocean waves and the current mean a beginner should be with an instructor and pick the tide and the wave size rather than treat the whole beach as a protected lagoon.

The scene

What riders come here for

wavesfreestyleflat waterfreeridebeginner lessons in suitable conditionssurf/kite combo trips

Who it suitsbeginner

Small kite crowd on a beach that is also the local surf, swim and restaurant strip. Weekends bring locals, swimmers and surfers onto the sand while the kite spot itself stays thin.

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: huge

Read the access rules

Somewhere else

No neighbour on record

No other spot in the atlas sits within reach of this one.

Rescue

No public lifeguard and no organised kite rescue. Rescue turns up once among the beach's listed facilities and is absent everywhere else, and nothing names an operator or a boat.

With the local kite school reportedly closed, assume nobody is coming for you. The Bagasbas Surfers Club and the other surf operators on the beach are the practical first contact.

Launch

About 2 km of open sandy beach with grass behind it, wide enough that launch and landing space is never the constraint. Daet town is a short ride away, Bagasbas itself a short walk. Weekends put swimmers, surfers and onlookers on the same sand, and fishermen work drag nets off the beach, so pick your corridor before you pump.

Hazards riders report 16 reported

Wind

Possible gusty or inconsistent Amihan wind during overcast rainy periods
Gusty or inconsistent Amihan wind during cool, overcast, rainy spells

Crowds and zones

Swimmers
Curious bystanders crowding gear/riders, especially on weekends
Swimmers and surfers, especially on weekends
Fishermen using drag nets or fishing nets off the beach
Bystanders crowding riders and gear
Swimmers and surfers, especially at weekends
Fishermen working drag nets and fishing nets off the beach
Curious bystanders crowding gear and riders, especially at weekends

Waves and currents

Currents
Wave and shorebreak conditions on bigger surf days
Strong currents on an open ocean beach with no rescue boat
Wave and shorebreak conditions on bigger surf days; regular surf runs 3-6 ft with days up to about 8 ft

Other

Fisher nets
No documented rescue cover and a local kite school reportedly no longer operating

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: no kitesurf permit, fee, zoning or seasonal restriction is documented. The beach is free to access and nothing is posted for it; the only stated local caution is that fishermen use drag nets offshore and those stretches should be avoided.

The standing caveat holds: local rules change, and some Philippine spots require a special permit or membership of a local kite organisation, so ask on the beach before the first session. No beach ordinance from the Municipality of Daet or barangay Bagasbas is on record.

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

Check in with local kiters or the surf operators on the beach before riding, because school and rescue status is not consistently reported.
Decide where you would come ashore before you launch. Currents are the recurring warning here and there is no rescue boat.
Treat Bagasbas as a wave beach unless a local instructor points you at a shallow teaching section with the right tide and surf size.
Look for drag nets and fishing gear before launching and on downwind runs, and keep an eye on your kit, because bystanders gather around gear on busy days.
Take December or January if you only get one week: December is the windiest month on record here, January next.
Pack spares, a repair kit and a bigger kite as backup; there is no shop you can count on, and season days cluster at 18-25 kt with lulls to 10-12 kt.

Getting there

Airport

Naga Airport (WNP) is the nearer airport; Manila Ninoy Aquino (MNL) is the long-haul alternative. The Daet airstrip is reportedly not in service for this route.

Route

Fly to Naga (WNP) and continue overland to Daet, about 2-3 hours, or take the direct Manila-Daet bus, roughly 8 hours with Superlines, DLTBCo or PhilTranco. From Daet a tricycle covers the last 15-20 minutes to Bagasbas. The local Daet airport is not in service for this route.

Transfer

Naga to Daet overland is about 120-180 minutes. Daet town to Bagasbas is 15-20 minutes by tricycle. Manila to Daet by bus is about 8 hours.

Cost level

low to medium; Manila-Daet bus options in 2025 ran around PHP 600-2000 depending on comfort, and a Daet-Bagasbas tricycle was PHP 30 in 2013.

Staying

Restaurants, bars and rooms sit along the Bagasbas beachfront, mostly budget. A 2013 example put an air-con double at PHP 800 in 2013; nothing more recent is confirmed.

No-wind days

Surfing at Bagasbas, restaurants and local nightlife on the beachfront and in Daet, paramotoring in the windless season from March to May, Calaguas Islands trips, First Rizal Monument/Bantayog, and other Camarines Norte beaches such as Baybay Beach.

Photos

FAQ

Is Bagasbas Beach suitable for beginners?

It's listed as beginner through advanced, but it's an open-ocean wave beach rather than a protected lagoon, so beginners should use local instruction and suitable tide/wave conditions.

What is the wind like?

NE to ENE Amihan wind typically runs 18-25 knots, cross-onshore, with 10-12 knot lulls and days up to 30 knots reported.

When is the best time to visit?

November to mid-March is the kitesurf season, with December, January and February the strongest and most reliable months.

Are there rules?

No kitesurf-specific permit, fee, or zoning was found as of 2026, though local rules can change and should be checked before riding.

What are the hazards?

Currents, fishermen's drag nets, curious bystanders on weekends, and shorebreak or wave conditions on bigger surf days.

The bigger pictureEverything about Daet, Camarines Norte

Last updated: August 2026