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Jupiter Kite Beach

Miami · Palm Beach County · Jupiter, Florida

also known as Juno Kite Beach, Juno Beach Access #33, Beach Access #33, Shower 33

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not for beginnersmedium crowds

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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

Sep–May

Months riders and schools name

How windy

15-20 kt

Character: mixed

Room to launch

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

29 °C in summerOpen Atlantic: shore pound, chop, wind swell

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Intermediate to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Dec Jan Feb Mar

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

25 min

Beach International Airport (PBI)

When it fills in

The spring and summer sea breeze fills in through the middle of the day, so it is a late-morning to afternoon spot in that pattern and it fades in the evening. Cold-front wind is synoptic: it arrives with the front at any hour and can hold overnight. Between November and March the forecast matters more than the clock.

Nearbystraight-line distance

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

St. Petersburg / Fort Desotono page yet
Corners around shower/access #21no page yet
Shower 56, Jupiterno page yet
Carlin Parkno page yet
Jupiter Inlet / South Jettyno page yet
Coral Cove Parkno page yet

The spot

Jupiter Kite Beach is Beach Access #33 on A1A, a short way north of Juno Beach Pier, and it is open Atlantic: deep water within a few metres of the sand, shorebreak, real chop and wind swell. Winter cold fronts bring the waves, the spring and summer southeast sea breeze brings the foil days, and September through May is the window, with December to April the dependable part of it.

Skill requirements

Nobody learns here. The bottom drops away immediately, the shorebreak stands up on front swell, and every fall is a swimming fall, so a first lesson belongs on protected water somewhere else.

Access and crowd

Parking is on the street and it is about a hundred yards down the numbered stairs, with other crossovers within an easy walk when #33 fills up. The beach sits inside the town dog corridor and is busy with swimmers and sunbathers, so launch and land clear of them or the goodwill goes.

Rescue and wind

One rule outranks all the etiquette: anything with west in it is offshore here and is not ridden, because there is no rescue and the next land is a long way downwind.

The wind

locals call it cold fronts and southeast sea breeze

Direction

cross-onSE

Direction to shore

Cross-on. Southeast and northeast are the two good directions and both arrive side-on to a beach that faces east; north and south run closer to side-shore and are also ridden. Anything with west in it is offshore and is not ridden here at all.

Dominant direction

SE, with N, NE, S and SE commonly kited; avoid winds with west in them

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

A 12 m covers the ordinary in-season afternoon. On the 20-25 kt end of a winter cold front a 75-85 kg rider is usually on 9 m, and on 7 m when it overdelivers; the 10-17 kt spring southeast sea breeze wants 12-14 m, and the roughly 8 kt midsummer thermal is foil weather rather than twin-tip weather.Local wave riders often go smaller than a visitor expects. No shop publishes a size-by-weight table for this beach.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

15-20 kt through the September-May season. The working range runs from roughly 8 kt summer thermals to 25 kt on a winter front.

Typical strength

15-20 kt on a normal in-season day. Winter cold fronts and the accompanying sea breeze give 10-25 kt, the spring southeast sea breeze 10-17 kt, and midsummer often only about 8 kt.

Winter into spring is the reliable part: northerly cold fronts bring the strength and the waves, southeast thermal days bring the light stuff. Summer is thin and hard to forecast. Autumn depends on what the tropics are doing that week.

September to May is the windy half and summer is the quiet one. November to March runs on cold fronts and sea breeze at 10-25 kts with thigh-to-head-high waves. April to June is southeast sea breeze at 10-17 kts, smaller surf, plenty of foil days. June and July drop to a hot afternoon breeze at about foil strength, and August to October is a coin toss between nothing and a tropical system.

Best season

December to late April is the stretch people plan around, with the southeast thermal often building through the afternoon.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

riding season from the spot record · no wind series here is trusted enough to name a season

No month-by-month share of windy days is held for this spot. The months riders and schools name are Nov, Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar, Sep, Oct, Apr, May.

About these figuresno series

Nothing usable has been measured or modelled for this place. The months come from what riders say, or from nothing at all.

Highlighted months are the riding season from the spot record.

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

The bottom drops away fast. Within a few metres of the shorebreak you are out of your depth, and it stays deep for miles offshore, so there is no standing-depth shelf to stand up on and sort out a tangle. Walk foil gear at least 20 m out before riding.Every fall here is a swimming fall.

Tides

Semidiurnal Atlantic tide, two highs and two lows a day, with a mean range of roughly 0.8 m at the nearest open-coast gauge. The launch is not tide-gated and no local tide window is published for Access #33.Sandbars sit close in and the rip currents that run between them shift with the water level, so the picture at the shoreline is not the same at 08:00 and 14:00.

Temperature

29 °C summer · 23 °C winter

Wetsuit

Boardshorts or rash vest in summer; a 3/2 is more than enough for winter cold-front sessions. A 2 mm top or shorty may be useful at dawn/dusk or in wind during the February minimum.

Currents

Rips run between the near-shore sandbars and move with the water level. North of Access #33 the inlet adds its own current, plus boat traffic and fishermen.

Conditions

Open Atlantic: shore pound, chop, wind swell. Flat sections are the exception, between sets or at low water. Water at the Jupiter Inlet south jetty peaks at 28–30 °C in early August and bottoms at 22–24 °C in early February.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

not for beginners here

Rated black to double-black, hydrofoil included, and that is about right: intermediate and advanced water. A beginner can be here on a soft day with an instructor, but the depth off the sand, the shorebreak, the rips and the loose dogs make it a poor place to teach yourself.

The scene

What riders come here for

wavesfoilfreeridestraplessbig air

An active local scene, friendly to visitors who launch politely. #33 is where people gather; Shower 56 up the road is quieter and more local. Windy weekends put kiters and beach users on the same sand.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

3 schools name 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

There is no kite rescue here and no boat that will come for you.

Nearest rescue coverage

The nearest guarded water is Juno Beach Park, where Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue covers about 300 ft of frontage inside a park open sunrise to sunset; Beach Access #33 sits outside that box, so a swim in is a swim in.

Emergency contacts

Ocean Rescue headquarters answers on 561-694-7480 and the county beach-conditions line on 561-624-0065, but an emergency in the water goes to 911.

Self-rescue plan

Plan every session on the assumption that you self-rescue, and treat any wind with west in it as a session with no exit.

Launch

Sandy Atlantic beach at A1A Beach Access #33, a little north of Juno Beach Pier. From street parking on A1A it is roughly a hundred yards down numbered stairs to a sand ramp wide enough to lay out a kite.Several other numbered crossovers sit within an easy walk, so riders spread out when #33 fills up. Look at the shorebreak from the top of the stairs before you commit to carrying a kite down.

Hazards riders report 20 reported

Wind

Onshore east wind can push less experienced riders back onto the beach
Westerly and other offshore-component winds are discouraged because recovery is poor if wind drops or a squall hits
Tropical storms or severe-weather squalls in late summer and fall
Westerly and other offshore-component winds, where a dropped kite means an open-ocean swim with no rescue
Tropical storms and severe-weather squalls from August through October

Crowds and zones

Busy public beach with swimmers, sunbathers, lifeguards and off-leash dogs in the Jupiter Dog Beach zone
Deep water immediately off the sand, with no standing-depth zone to recover in

Waves and currents

Shorebreak that is small on a quiet day and stands up steeply on cold-front swell
Large shore pound and steep shorebreak, especially during cold fronts
Rip currents and strong ocean currents between sandbars
Currents, boats, fishermen and bull-shark migration concerns near Jupiter Inlet north of Access #33
Large shore pound and steep shorebreak, worst during winter cold-front swell
Rip currents and strong longshore currents running between the near-shore sandbars
Onshore east wind pushing less experienced riders back into the shorebreak
Currents, boat traffic, fishermen and bull sharks near Jupiter Inlet north of Access #33

Protected areas and rules

Busy public beach with swimmers, sunbathers, lifeguard chairs and off-leash dogs in the #26-#57 dog corridor

Other

occasional strong tropical systems in fall
Deep water close to shore and limited standing-depth recovery
Potential dangerous marine life flagged by Palm Beach County beach warning system
Dangerous marine life flagged purple by the county beach warning system, including Portuguese man-of-war

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: no permit, waiver or certification is required to kite at Beach Access #33, and no kite-specific zoning map or seasonal closure exists for it.

Behavior rules

2026: access rests entirely on behaviour — launch and land clear of swimmers, sunbathers and lifeguard chairs, no jumping on the beach, and ride well offshore rather than working the inside.

Beach flag system

2026: the guarded stretches of Jupiter's beaches are covered by Palm Beach County Ocean Rescue, which flies a five-flag system — green low hazard, yellow medium, red high hazard with swimming for experienced ocean swimmers only, double red water closed to the public, purple dangerous marine life; the absence of a flag is not a statement that the water is safe.

2026: at Juno Beach, surfing in the guarded area is only allowed when the orange-and-white checkered surfing flag is flying.

Dogs and parking

2026: dogs are permitted on 2.5 miles of town beach from marker #26 at Marcinski Road north to marker #57 at the Carlin Park line, which puts #33 inside the dog corridor; dogs are not allowed on county beaches.

2026: town-run crossovers are #23, #25-31, #37, #39-41, #45-53 and #65, with free parking at the six beach parks and between crossovers #27 and #28, plus street parking on A1A.

2026: questions about local restrictions go to the Town of Jupiter on 561-746-5134.

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

Use Beach Access #33 as the meeting point, then walk to a neighbouring crossover if the launch is packed.
Check the forecast for Juno Kitebeach and Jupiter Inlet before driving, and remember that the wind at the top of the stairs is the only reading that counts.
On foil gear, walk at least 20 m out before you start. The beach gets deep fast, but the shore zone is full of people.
Wait for a clean gap between the sets before leaving or coming back in when a northerly cold-front swell is running.
Do not launch or land near swimmers, sunbathers or dogs. #33 sits inside a 2.5-mile dog corridor.
Stay south of the inlet. North of it there is current, boat traffic, working fishermen and a bull-shark reputation.
Treat any west component as a no-go: no rescue, and a long way downwind to the next land.
Read the flag at the nearest guarded stand before you rig. Purple means dangerous marine life, double red means the water is closed.
Bring your own food and water. The #33 area has a shower and a set of stairs and little else.
Loggerhead Marinelife Center is the standard no-wind afternoon.

Getting there

Airport

Palm Beach International Airport (PBI); Fort Lauderdale (FLL) and Miami (MIA) are farther alternatives

Route

A car is the only practical option.Palm Beach International is about 25 minutes south, Fort Lauderdale about an hour and Miami about ninety minutes.Once you are in Jupiter almost everything sits within ten minutes of everything else.Drive east to A1A and park on the street near crossover #33; free lots exist at the six beach parks and between crossovers #27 and #28.

Transfer

25 min

Cost level

Medium to high; Jupiter has waterfront hotels and luxury resorts, and December-April is peak visitor season with higher accommodation rates.

Staying

Jupiter has small hotels, waterfront places, luxury resorts and rentals. Staying near the beach saves hauling gear around, though you still end up parking on A1A for the launch itself.

No-wind days

Paddleboarding, kayaking the Loxahatchee River, Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, Loggerhead Marinelife Center, beaches, surfing, fishing, hiking and biking trails.

Photos

FAQ

When is the best time to kite Jupiter Kite Beach?

September through May is the windiest period, with November through March bringing cold fronts plus sea breeze around 10-25 knots and thigh-to-head-high waves.

Is Jupiter Kite Beach suitable for beginners?

No, local guidance rates it best for intermediate and advanced riders because of deep water close to shore, shorebreak and currents; beginners should use a local school or a protected shallow-water lesson site nearby.

What is the wind like?

Wind is mostly SE sea breeze in spring and summer and stronger winter cold fronts, with directions from N, NE, S and SE commonly ridden; winds with a west component are discouraged as offshore.

Are there rules to know?

As of 2026, no certification or waiver is required at Jupiter Kite Beach, but riders should stay well offshore and respect swimmers, lifeguards and the adjacent Jupiter Dog Beach.

What hazards should riders know about?

Shore pound and steep shorebreak during cold fronts, rip currents between sandbars, and currents and occasional bull-shark migration near Jupiter Inlet are the main hazards.

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Last updated: August 2026