2 CENTERS · SANTA MARIA BAY + PONTA LEME
ION Club SalTHE BAY OPERATOR
International chain · Sal branch
The international chain's Sal kitesurf operation: a center on the Santa Maria bay itself — next to the Oasis Atlantico, a five-minute walk from the Hotel Morabeza — plus a second, wind-focused base at Ponta Leme, fifteen minutes' walk east, where cross-offshore wind grooms flat water near the shore.
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SEASON 2026 · CHECKED BY THE AGENT
Centers
Santa Maria bay · Ponta Leme (15 min walk east)
Bay center
Best location in the bay, next to Oasis Atlantico
Ponta Leme
Cross-offshore, flat near shore, chop outside
Season
NE trades November → May15-25 KTS
Downwinders
Murdeira → Ponta Preta tours for advanced riders
7-day wind forecast for Sal
HOME SPOT: SANTA MARIA BAY
Santa Maria Bay · Sal STATIC · OPEN-METEO · SYNCED 19.10
TODAY
19.10
10KTS · GUST 19
NE · 12m+
LIGHT TUE
20.10
9KTS · GUST 17
NE · 12m+
LIGHT WED
21.10
12KTS · GUST 22
ENE · 12m
OK THU
22.10
15KTS · GUST 24
NE · 12m
OK FRI
23.10
16KTS · GUST 27
NE · 10m
GO SAT
24.10
18KTS · GUST 30
NNE · 10m
GO SUN
25.10
14KTS · GUST 23
NNE · 12m
OK GO 16–24 kts · OK 12–15 · STRONG 25+ · LIGHT <12 — Open-Meteo data, cached & rewritten nightly by the agent as static HTML.
The Kitesurf Camp verdict The structured, multilingual chain option of Santa Maria: two bases, a downwinder program to the island's famous west coast, and the reliability of a network that runs centers from Mauritius to Dakhla. Autonomous riders get the most from it.
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