Melkbos
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Windguru's forecast for Melkbos.
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Model: GFS 13 km · Windguru spot “Melkbos Beach”, 1.9 km away
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Conditions
- Works best in
- NOWSWSSWSSSESENW
- Surf
- · offshore at ENE–ESE · from 1 m swell
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About the spot
Melkbos is where you go when it's too much elsewhere: too strong in Big Bay or at Sunset Beach and people move up here. It works the other way round too — there's often still a wave here when it's flat further south. Not a freeride spot: you come to Melkbos to ride waves.
Hazards
Plenty of shorebreak, and the water deepens slowly. The waves can get seriously big, and there's current. There's room, and you won't usually be out there alone.
Launch & parking
There's a large public car park.
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 1.15 (mean) and times 1.25 (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.
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