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Sinyang Beach

Jeju Island · Goseong-ri / Seongsan

also known as Sinyang Seopjikoji Beach, 신양섭지해수욕장, 신양해수욕장

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On this page

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

Riding essentials

Season

Sep–May

Months riders and schools name

How windy

12-15 kt

Character: mixed

Room to launch

access rules on record, below

Water

mixed

27.4 °C in summerThe beach is a crescent/half-moon bay inside the Seopjikoji headland with small waves and fine sand

Hazards

Reported by riders

Level

Beginner to advanced

With a caveat: see Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

Crowds

medium crowds · busy Mar Apr Sep Oct

Schools

named at this spot

From the airport

Jeju International Airport (CJU)

Transfer times under Getting there

On the clock

08:00 · 09:00 · 10:00 · 12:00 · 16:00 · 17:00

Synoptic rather than thermal: a front can blow through the night and the best days are not tied to an hour. The average day still builds - flat from midnight to 08:00, rising from 09:00-10:00, strongest between 12:00 and 16:00, easing after 17:00 - but the swing from dawn to mid-afternoon is only about 1.5 kt, so the forecast decides the session, not the clock.

The marks are the clock times the record names, laid on a 24-hour day. The bar between the first and the last covers those hours; it is not a promise of wind.

Nearbystraight-line distance

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

Jungmun Beach
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The spot

Sinyang Seopji is the kite and windsurf beach on the east side of Jeju, tucked inside the Seopjikoji headland near Seongsan. The riding is a shallow, sandy, crescent bay of about 1 m average depth, flatter than the exposed Jeju beaches, with small waves inside the arc.

Spot-hopping and wind

Jeju is a spot-hopping island and Sinyang is the southeast favourite rather than the answer to every day: schools pick the beach each morning off the wind direction and the tide, and a northwest forecast sends everyone to the other side of the island.

Seasonal patterns and conditions

Spring and fall carry the most windy days. Summer is warmer and often lighter, which means big kites or a foil, while winter blows harder and colder and asks more of you. The bay teaches well, and riding it independently means checking the tide, the swimmers and the current beach zones before you rig. When strong wind or a typhoon swell puts waves outside the bay, this stops being flat-water cruising.

The wind

locals call it Jeju seasonal synoptic wind; summer sea-breeze/monsoon pattern and colder winter northerlies are described locally, but no formal named local wind is on record.

Direction

onshore

Direction to shore

The bay sits inside the Seopjikoji headland and opens east, so east and east-northeast arrive onshore and land smoothest inside the arc. South blows cross-shore along the beach and is the direction the bay is most often taught in.Northwest, which supplies close to half of the windy winter hours, comes over the land and off the beach; that is the day riders leave for the north-facing beaches on the other side of the island.

Dominant direction

Northwest is the single commonest windy direction across spring, autumn and winter - about 44% of windy daytime hours in winter - but it is the offshore one here. The directions the bay actually works in are east and east-northeast, roughly one windy hour in six through autumn, and south to south-southwest, which is what summer delivers.

Kite sizes

567891011121314151617

metres · typical quiver highlighted

The quiver, in words

For a 75-85 kg rider, 12-15 m covers the ordinary 12-15 kt April-November day and a 17 m or a foil handles hot, light July and August. 7-9 m is the winter and strong-spring answer - 7-8 m was enough in a 12 m/s south-southwesterly here one April.

Character

mixed

When it fills in: see above ↑

Average strength

9-13 kt as a monthly average. Practical summer riding usually means 12-15 kt and a bigger kite than the average suggests.

Typical strength

12-15 kt through the warmer April-November season and often over 20 kt in winter, against monthly averages of 9-13 kt.

Often rideable but changeable; choosing the right beach for the day's wind and tide matters. Spring and fall are the highest-chance windy periods, summer is usually lighter and foil-friendly, and winter can be strong and cold.

Spring and fall carry the highest chance of a windy day, and the kite and wing season usually closes in November before the winter camps start.

An older account splits the year differently: an April to November summer season with hot, light July and August, and a November to April winter season with stronger wind and cold water and air.

263 windy days a year is the figure that circulates for this beach, counted on a 4 Bft threshold, which is a generous bar.

Forecast

Live forecast

Windguru Windfinder Windy

Month by month

15 ktJan
14 ktFeb
13 ktMar
11 ktApr
10 ktMay
9 ktJun
10 ktJul
10 ktAug
11 ktSep
12 ktOct
13 ktNov
14 ktDec

avg knots per month · season highlighted

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

Modelled from weather reanalysis on a 10–25 km grid (1980-2016), 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

Month	Knots	Wind from	Air
Jan	15 kt	N	5.6 °C
Feb	14.4 kt	N	6.1 °C
Mar	13.1 kt	N	8.9 °C
Apr	11.3 kt	N	13.3 °C
May	9.6 kt	S	17.2 °C
Jun	9 kt	E	21.1 °C
Jul	9.7 kt	S	25.6 °C
Aug	10 kt	S	26.7 °C
Sep	11.1 kt	N	22.8 °C
Oct	11.9 kt	N	17.8 °C
Nov	12.9 kt	N	12.8 °C
Dec	14.4 kt	N	7.8 °C

How this is modelledmodelled · 1980-2016

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

A station this far away — often inland or at an airport — can understate accelerated local wind. 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.

Jeju International Airport (Weather Spark model) · weatherspark.com (MERRA-2 reanalysis) · 1980-2016

The water

Type

mixed

Standing depth

About 1 m average depth over a gentle 5-degree slope with a sandy bottom, so you can stand a long way out; that, and the near-absence of rock, is why beginner lessons run here. The tide still moves it, and how much water sits in the bay is the first thing a school checks before setting a lesson time.

Tides

The lesson beach and the lesson hour in East Jeju, Sinyang included, are chosen off the tide and the wind. Jeju beaches can look like different places at low and high water.

Temperature

27.4 °C summer · 14.1 °C winter

Wetsuit

No wetsuit is usually needed in June-September. A long summer suit in May and October, and in a severe winter a full suit with gloves and a neoprene hood. 5 mm was the call on colder spring days in 2024.

Conditions

The beach is a crescent/half-moon bay inside the Seopjikoji headland with small waves and fine sand. Sinyang is sheltered from wind swell inside the bay, with waves outside during strong winds or typhoon swell. Windsurfing occurs nearby, and the beach has small waves suitable for families.

Seasonal seaweed or Sargassum is reported on the beach at times.

Your level

BeginnerIntermediateAdvanced

The shallow sandy bay and its official 1 m average depth carry beginner lessons when the wind, the tide and the beach zones line up.

Local schools sell beginner courses here, and lesson operators name Sinyang among the East Jeju beaches they teach on.

Strong winter wind, typhoon swell outside the bay and Jeju's rock and obstacles are why an independent rider should still ask locally first.

The scene

What riders come here for

intermediatefreerideflat waterbeginner lessonslight-wind foilingwing foilingbump and jump in stronger wind

Who it suitsbeginner

An established east-Jeju windsurf and kite beach rather than a mass-tourism one. It is quieter and less built up than the big Jeju beaches. Expect general beach users through the summer swimming season and more kiters in the spring and autumn windy spells.

Launch and rules

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

With a school or a boat

4 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

No kite rescue boat. Sinyang Seopji is one of Jeju's 12 designated beaches, so during the opening period it gets a 119 team leader plus waterside safety staff working two shifts of four a day, private lifeguards and coast guard coastal patrols; Jeju put 455 safety staff across its beaches, ports and rivers for June to September 2026.

The village describes rescue staff and a safety system as part of its marine-leisure setup, which is unconfirmed outside the beach season. There is no live weather station on the beach - the nearest is Seongsan, 7.6 km away.

Emergencies go to 119.

Launch

Sandy crescent about 300 m long and 80 m wide inside the Seopjikoji headland, with the setup area on the sand - kites are pumped and launched on the beach and walked straight in. Space is wide and the ground is nearly clear of rock; the one obstacle that matters is the cafe building in the middle of the beach, which is where kites get caught.Parking and facilitiesParking is at the breakwater end, which is roomy, or by the toilets, which holds about eight cars. A kite shop and guesthouse operate on the beach, and it has long been a windsurfing base, including the Korean Windsurfing Association training centre.

Hazards riders report 11 reported

Wind

Winter wind is strong and cold, and a severe winter here wants full neoprene.
Northwest wind is offshore at this bay and it is the commonest winter direction, so the windiest months are often the wrong ones for Sinyang.

Crowds and zones

Summer beach operation means swimmers and designated beach-management zones may be present during opening hours.

Bottom

Seasonal seaweed/Sargassum has been reported at Sinyang and can affect beach cleanliness.

Waves and currents

Typhoon swell periods create waves outside the bay
Strong winds or typhoon swell can produce waves outside the bay.
Exact lesson/riding window is tide- and wind-dependent, and local schools may move to another East Jeju beach.
Jeju beaches carry rocks and obstacles and behave differently at low and high tide; check the Sinyang launch with locals before rigging on your own.

Other

Confirm permit/local kite-club requirements before rigging
The cafe building in the middle of the beach is the one thing kites snag on here; keep the setup area clear of it.
Shared water with windsurfers, who have used this bay far longer than kiters have.

Rules & access

1 min read

2026: Jeju's 12 designated beaches, Sinyang Seopji among them, ran 24 June to 6 September - 75 days - normally 10:00-19:00; Sinyang was not on the night-extension list. Swimming is confined to the marked safety line and coast guard material for Jeju bars water-leisure activity inside the swimming boundary and within 10 m outside it during the opening period, with fines up to 1,000,000 KRW.

Facilities and zones

Parasol hire was held at 20,000 KRW and a platform at 30,000 KRW. No kite-specific permit, club-membership rule or posted Sinyang kite/windsurf zone appears in official municipal notices; check Seogwipo beach notices and the on-beach school before launching.

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

Message a local school before an independent session; they announce the day's beach each morning by wind direction and tide.
South wind is the teaching wind here: cross-shore, sheltered by the headland, and the reason schools choose Sinyang on a southerly.
A northwest forecast means the wrong side of the island: the north wind belongs to Hamdeok, Gimnyeong or Geumneung, not to Sinyang.
Bring or rent big for the warm season: 12-17 m, with July-August hot and often light.
Pack proper neoprene for winter, and 5 mm for the cold spring days.
Park at the breakwater end if you are carrying gear; the car park by the toilets holds about eight cars and fills.

Getting there

Airport

Jeju International Airport (CJU)

Route

Drive or taxi from Jeju City/Airport toward Seongsan and Seopjikoji; public buses run from Jeju City toward Goseong/Seongsan but a car is strongly preferred for kiters because local schools chase the best beach by wind direction and tide.

Transfer

About 50-90 minutes by car/bus depending on start point and traffic; Jeju International Airport is 41.2 km from the spot by one measure, 40.8 km by another, and about 5 minutes from Seongsan.

Cost level

medium

Staying

Stay near Seongsan, Goseong-ri or Sinyang for the east-side spots; Jeju Kite Lab says it runs a guesthouse right at Sinyang Beach, and older local-school advice says many kiters stay near Hamdeok or Seongsan for easier access to southeast spots.

No-wind days

Seopjikoji, Seongsan Ilchulbong, Udo Island ferry, Aqua Planet Jeju, Bunker de Lumieres, SUP/eFoil/wing-foil or other Jeju coastal sightseeing depending on conditions.

FAQ

Is Sinyang Beach good for beginners?

Yes, the shallow crescent-shaped bay averages about 1 meter deep and is used by local schools for beginner lessons when wind, tide and zoning line up.

When is the best time to kite at Sinyang Beach?

Spring and fall have the highest chance of consistently windy days, while summer is usually lighter and better suited to foiling, and the season generally winds down by November.

What is the wind like at Sinyang Beach?

Monthly average wind runs about 9-13 knots, with typical riding conditions of 12-15 knots in the warmer season and often over 20 knots in winter.

Are there kite schools at Sinyang Beach?

Yes, Jeju Kite Lab operates directly on the beach with IKO-certified lessons, rental and a guesthouse, and other East Jeju schools also use Sinyang depending on conditions.

Are there rules to check before kiting at Sinyang Beach?

Jeju's designated beaches, including Sinyang, run an official bathing season from around June 24 to September 6, but no kite-specific permit or zone ordinance was confirmed, so check local notices first.

The bigger pictureEverything about Jeju Island

Last updated: August 2026