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Witsand · South Africa

Witsand in January

River, with a tide. What an average January looks like here, from five years of weather history.

Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
Model mean, kn
12.5
Model gust, kn
25.6
Windy days (model, twintip 14 kn)
22
Direction
ESE
Air °C
23
Sunny days
13
Rain days
8

By the model, January is the windiest month here: 12.5 kn mean against 10.3 kn over the year. Best for wind: Oct, Dec and Jan.

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Season

Best for wind: Oct, Dec and Jan

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Wind, shape of the year
Model: weather history 2021 to 2025
Model mean, kn
12.5
11.5
10.8
9.1
7.6
8.1
8.1
9.1
10.5
12.2
12.2
12.3
Model gust, kn
25.6
23.8
22.2
18.9
16.2
16.6
16.8
19.0
21.6
24.7
24.9
25.0
Windy days (model, twintip 14 kn)
22
17
18
11
8
10
9
12
15
21
18
20
Direction
ESE
ESE
ESE
ESE
WSW
W
W
W
ESE
ESE
ESE
ESE
Air °C
23
23
22
19
18
17
15
16
17
19
21
22
Sunny days
13
11
10
10
12
11
12
13
10
9
8
10
Rain days
8
7
9
7
6
8
7
6
6
8
5
9

Wind bar: the month's model mean wind between 09:00 and 18:00 against the windiest month here (full bar). 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.