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USAPAMLICO SOUND FLATS

America's kite island

America's kite mecca is a sandbar in the Atlantic: Cape Hatteras, where the Pamlico Sound serves waist-deep flat water the size of a small sea, the ocean waits two minutes across the road, and the resorts in Waves and Rodanthe put the school on the property and the launch at the door.

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Cape Hatteras

Waist-deep Pamlico Sound flats, the dead-flat REAL Slick, ocean waves across NC-12 — with resorts on the launch in Waves and Rodanthe.

Season
MAR-NOV · JUN-JUL PEAK
Water
WAIST-DEEP FLATS
Waves
2 MIN
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7-day wind forecast

REFERENCE SPOT: CAPE HATTERAS · UPDATED DAILY
Pamlico Sound at Waves (REAL Slick) · Cape Hatteras STATIC · OPEN-METEO · SYNCED 20.07
TODAY
20.07
34KTS · GUST 40
SW · 6m
STRONG
TUE
21.07
29KTS · GUST 38
SSW · 6m
STRONG
WED
22.07
29KTS · GUST 37
SSW · 6m
STRONG
THU
23.07
28KTS · GUST 35
N · 6m
STRONG
FRI
24.07
20KTS · GUST 21
NE · 9m
GO
SAT
25.07
23KTS · GUST 24
NNE · 9m
GO
SUN
26.07
19KTS · GUST 22
N · 10m
GO
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
SW thermals + NE systems, ≥20 rideable days/month claimedJUN-JUL MOST CONSISTENT
Season
March → November prime, locals ride year-round
Water
Waist-deep sound flats + ocean waves across NC-12
Access
Fly Norfolk (ORF) or Raleigh (RDU), drive NC-12
Watch out
Hurricane season Aug-Sep, NC-12 storm closures
Time zone
UTC-5 · 6h behind CET
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