Langebaan
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Measured live: Wind2Speed
This is where the live wind measurement from the “Cape Sports Center” station at Wind2Speed appears: direction, average and gusts, straight off the anemometer.
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Detailed forecast (Windguru)
Windguru's forecast for Langebaan.
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Model: GFS 13 km · Windguru spot “Langebaan”, 1.3 km away
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This is where the Windguru forecast table appears: 24 columns of wind, gusts, direction and swell for the days ahead.
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Conditions
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- NOWSWSSWSSSESE
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- Kite
- Windsurf
About the spot
Caribbean-blue water, and one of the prettiest places to ride in the Western Cape. Mostly flat over sand, no shorebreak, and in a southerly it's clean side-shore across the whole bay. Further towards Mykonos you pick up some chop once the wind gets up.
Hazards
The lagoon is inside the West Coast National Park and parts of it are closed — read the signs before exploring it on the water. The tide matters more: large areas in the south dry out at low water and can't be ridden then. The current runs hard on both the incoming and the outgoing tide. At the main spots off Main Beach you can get out at any water level.
Launch & parking
Public parking runs the length of the bay — from Mykonos past Langebaan Main Beach down to Shark Bay.
Wind source
ECMWF via Open-Meteo · Forecast
Cape correction: The ECMWF model runs on a 9 km grid and cannot resolve the Cape’s thermal wind — so in wind from southerly to westerly directions (SE to W) it reads low. Only then do we show the model value times 1.35 (mean) and times 1.40 (gusts). In every other direction, such as the north-westerly frontal winds, we apply no correction — the model resolves those. The factors are our estimate from local knowledge (as of 17 September 2026), not a measurement; they will be replaced once the comparison with measured values is in. Above a 40 kn model mean we apply no correction.
Measured live: Wind2Speed. There is a real anemometer at the spot — the Wind2Speed station “Cape Sports Center”. These values are measured, and for right now they are the better answer than any forecast, ours included. We embed the display and do not read the numbers out, so our assessment above stays a forecast. Thanks to Wind2Speed for letting us show their stations here. wind2speed.africa
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