Barbados, Soup Bowl in May
Reef, no tide. What an average May looks like here, from five years of weather history.
- Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
- Model mean, kn
- 11.9
- Model gust, kn
- 24.6
- Direction
- E
- Waves, m
- 1.2
- Surf days
- 31
- Water °C
- 29
- Air °C
- 29
- Sunny days
- 4
- Rain days
- 18
- Wetsuit
- no wetsuit
May is the best month here: 31 surf days against 30 in an average month. Best for waves: Jan, Mar and May.
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Season
Best for waves: Jan, Mar and May
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Surf days
Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
Model mean, kn
12.0
12.5
11.8
11.2
11.9
12.6
11.7
9.5
7.7
9.4
10.6
10.9
Model gust, kn
24.7
25.8
24.5
23.4
24.6
26.0
24.6
20.9
17.6
20.4
22.5
23.2
Direction
ENE
ENE
ENE
E
E
E
E
ENE
ENE
E
E
ENE
Waves, m
1.3
1.3
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.2
1.0
0.8
0.8
1.0
1.1
1.3
Surf days
31
28
31
30
31
30
31
31
30
31
30
31
Water °C
27
27
28
28
29
29
29
30
30
30
29
28
Air °C
27
27
27
28
29
29
29
29
29
29
29
28
Sunny days
13
15
9
5
4
4
7
8
7
6
6
10
Rain days
20
18
19
16
18
23
26
26
21
21
20
19
Model rows: daytime (09:00 to 18:00) means; a windy day has 2 hours or more at the sport's minimum; a surf day 2 daylight hours of waves of 0.5 m or more; sunny: daytime cloud 30 % or less; rain: 1 mm or more.
From weather models 2021 to 2025. At spots with thermal wind or sea breeze the model reads several knots low; the bars show the shape of the year, riders know the numbers.
Source: Open-Meteo historical weather and marine archive (CC BY 4.0), weather 2021 to 2025, waves and water 2021 to 2025.