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Morocco300+ WINDY DAYS A YEAR

The desert lagoon

A 40-kilometre flat lagoon between the Sahara and the Atlantic: Dakhla runs on trade winds 300+ days a year, with kite camps and hotels sitting directly on the water. Essaouira and its bay come next.

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Dakhla

A 40 km Sahara lagoon with standing depth up to 300 m out, camps on the sand and trade winds almost every day of the season.

Windy days
300+/YEAR
Wind avg
15–25 KTS
Level
ALL
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Essaouira

The 3 km bay of Morocco's wind city: kite zone at the south end by the historic centers, steady trades April to October, 3/2 wetsuit even in summer.

Season
APR-OCT · PEAK JUN-AUG
Wind
16–35 KTS BY MONTH
Water
17-20°C
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7-day wind forecast

REFERENCE SPOT: DAKHLA · UPDATED DAILY
Dakhla Lagoon · Dakhla STATIC · OPEN-METEO · SYNCED 20.07
TODAY
20.07
25KTS · GUST 32
NNE · 7m
STRONG
TUE
21.07
24KTS · GUST 30
NNE · 7m
GO
WED
22.07
26KTS · GUST 33
NNE · 7m
STRONG
THU
23.07
25KTS · GUST 31
NNE · 7m
STRONG
FRI
24.07
29KTS · GUST 36
NNE · 6m
STRONG
SAT
25.07
27KTS · GUST 36
NNE · 7m
STRONG
SUN
26.07
25KTS · GUST 33
NNE · 7m
STRONG
GO 16–24 kts · OK 12–15 · STRONG 25+ · LIGHT <12 — Open-Meteo data, cached & rewritten nightly by the agent as static HTML.

Country spec sheet

CHECKED NIGHTLY BY THE AGENT
Wind days
300+ per year at DakhlaRELIABLE TRADES
Water temp
17-23°CWETSUIT ADVISED
Flight
~3-4h direct from France & Spain
Best window
April → SeptemberPEAK JUN-AUG
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