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Characteristics
  Oahu is, with the other Hawaiian Islands the home of surfing. Beyond this, it is also the home to some of the worlds best and most famous surf spots. The North shore is packed with familiar names, Pipeline and Backdoor, Off the Wall, Log Cabins, Sunset and Waimea Bay. When the big winter swells come in, the worlds best surfers head here. The south of the island is also a surfers dream with many many class breaks. Unfortunately, due to its image and consequent popularity, Oahu is one of the most crowded and 'localised' places to surf. Show a bad attitude, and you may not even want to get back into the water.
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  Surf Spot Photo GPS Quality Direction Type Frequency Level
1 Ala Moana Bowls 19  right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
2 Ala Moana Courts   right and left reef-coral all surfers
3 Aligator Rock right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
4 Baby Makapuu left reef-rocky all surfers
5 Backdoor 11  right reef-coral experienced surfers
6 Barber's Point - Coast Guard Jetty right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
7 Bellows right and left sand-bar beginners wave
8 Bomboras left reef-coral experienced surfers
9 Canoe's right and left reef-coral all surfers
10 China walls 18  left point-break pros or kamikaze only...
11 Chuns Reef right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
12 Cliffs right and left reef-coral all surfers
13 Concessions right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
14 Cromwells right and left reef-rocky all surfers
15 Daves Backyard   right and left reef-rocky all surfers
16 Dune Circle   right and left beach-break all surfers
17 Ehukai 12  right and left sand-bar all surfers
18 First hole   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
19 Flies (incinerators) right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
20 Fort Hase's   right and left reef-coral all surfers
21 Goat Island right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
22 Graters   right reef-coral experienced surfers
23 Graveyards left reef-coral experienced surfers
24 Green Lanterns right experienced surfers
25 Haleiwa right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
26 Himalayas right and left reef-coral pros or kamikaze only...
27 In Betweens right and left reef-rocky all surfers
28 Irmas right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
29 Jockos Point   left point-break pros or kamikaze only...
30 Kabanas   right and left beach-break all surfers
31 Kaisers 22  right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
32 Kalama right and left beach-break all surfers
33 Kewalo's right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
34 kualoa point   right and left point-break all surfers
35 Lahilahi Point left point-break experienced surfers
36 Laniakea right and left reef-rocky all surfers
37 Lanikai Reef right and left reef-coral all surfers
38 Leftovers left reef-rocky experienced surfers
39 Log Cabins   right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
40 Lots   right and left reef-rocky all surfers
41 Magic Island reef-coral experienced surfers
42 Makaha right reef-coral experienced surfers
43 Makapuu 16  right and left experienced surfers
44 Makapuu Beach right and left beach-break all surfers
45 Malaekahana7   right and left beach-break experienced surfers
46 Mokuleia right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
47 Nanakuli Blackrocks   left experienced surfers
48 Nanakuli tracks right and left reef-coral all surfers
49 North Beach Pyramid Rock 40  right and left reef-coral all surfers
50 Off the Wall right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
51 Oils   right and left reef-rocky
52 Oneula right and left reef-rocky all surfers
53 Our house   right and left reef-coral all surfers
54 Outer Log Cabins right reef-rocky pros or kamikaze only...
55 Paradise   right and left Don't know all surfers
56 Parthenos Cliffs right reef-coral experienced surfers
57 Pipeline 60  left reef-coral pros or kamikaze only...
58 Point Panic right reef-coral all surfers
59 Point Panics right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
60 Pounders right and left beach-break experienced surfers
61 Power Plant reef-rocky
62 Puaena Point right and left reef-coral all surfers
63 Pupukea right beach-break all surfers
64 Pyramid Rock   right and left beach-break experienced surfers
65 Queens 10  right and left reef-coral all surfers
66 Radicals   right reef-coral experienced surfers
67 Radz   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
68 Ranches right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
69 Rec. Center - Pokai Bay right reef-rocky all surfers
70 Reef Runway   right and left reef-rocky all surfers
71 Rice Bowls experienced surfers
72 Ripps Reef   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
73 Rockpiles right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
74 Rocky lefts 16  right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
75 Sand Island right and left reef-rocky all surfers
76 Sandy Beach 43  right and left beach-break experienced surfers
77 Secrets   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
78 Seventh Hole   left reef-coral experienced surfers
79 Shallows   right and left point-break experienced surfers
80 Shorebreaks   right and left beach-break all surfers
81 Stables   right reef-coral experienced surfers
82 Sunset beach right reef-rocky experienced surfers
83 Tankers   right reef-coral experienced surfers
84 Three's right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
85 Tongg's   right and left reef-coral all surfers
86 Tumbo Land left reef-coral all surfers
87 Turtle Bay right reef-coral experienced surfers
88 Turtles   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
89 Turtles reef   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
90 Uppers   right and left reef-rocky experienced surfers
91 Velzy Land right reef-rocky experienced surfers
92 Waimea Bay 28  right point-break pros or kamikaze only...
93 Walls 10  right reef-coral experienced surfers
94 Wench   right and left reef-coral experienced surfers
95 White Plains Beach 13  right and left reef-coral all surfers
96 Yokohama Bay 30  right and left beach-break experienced surfers
97 Zombies   left reef-coral experienced surfers


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Surfing Season
Jan/Feb Mar/Apr May/Jun Jul/Aug Sep/Oct Nov/Dec
Best Surfing Season
Best season

Regular Swell

Occasional Swell

Flat

Occasional Swell

Best season
Typical Swell Size
2.5m-3m / 8ft-10ft

2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft

1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

< 1m / 3ft

1m-1.5m / 3ft-5ft

2m-2.5m / 6ft-8ft
Surf Equipment Shorty Shorty Boardshorts Boardshorts Boardshorts Boardshorts
Water temp. 24°C
75°F
24°C
75°F
25°C
77°F
26°C
79°F
27°C
81°F
25°C
77°F
Air temp. 24°C
75°F
25°C
77°F
26°C
79°F
26°C
79°F
28°C
82°F
26°C
79°F
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Laniakea, United States of America
By wavesliding1, 2009-11-12 09:00:00

It was a lot of fun today. The swell was slowly dropping so it was a little inconsistent.When the bombers came though, it was well worth the wait. A lot of the good ones were going all the way across. It was big enough to keep most of the kooks off o
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Three's, United States of America
By scRobby, 2009-06-20 00:00:00
Great Summer
The summer of 09, What to say? I have to say the summer of 09 was the best summer I have ever had. So many swells in the 2 1/2 months I was there. Most of the time there was light wind and wave of at least 3 feet (local scale). Some days were 5 feet
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Rec. Center - Pokai Bay, United States of America
By Pathfinder, 2009-03-26 21:50:10

Overall not a bad day - It was just a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be and I was getting a little frustrated at trying to fight with all the SUP's out there that were catching all the waves...
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Daves Backyard, United States of America
By Pathfinder, 2009-02-07 08:00:00
Day before the pro bowl
Today was a great day. I spent more time taking pictures of Dave, Shawn and Raymon than I did surfing. I caught a couple of good ones, but I got some real good shots today too. Overall, great day. The waves were big enough, fast enough and ple
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Daves Backyard, United States of America
By Pathfinder, 2009-02-06 02:00:00
Quick paddle into the water
I caught one really good wave at the beginning of the session. I probably rode that thing for 150 to 200 yards or so. The waves were kind of bumpy and blown out though. I think if we had a little offshore breeze instead of the onshore one it would
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Last Surf Trips
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Trip: south shore ohau
By olasmaster, From 2008-04-17 to 2008-04-21
South Swell on the way....  Hoping to surf kaisers, tennis courts, ala moana, and more! Gonna check the kokua festival, jack johnson...dave mathews.. 
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Trip: Spring break at Nimitz Beach
By waterman_75, From 2008-03-26 to 2008-03-29
Just getting back from Palau and it is time for Spring Break with the boys...  We rented a beach Cabin at the coast guard station for three days of sun, surf, and sand.  There was a great south swell on the first day that bumped things up t
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comment by Michael Birrer , 2009-08-03 13:20:18

car pooling in Oahu
thanks for the encouraging words Quinn. It is nice to think that Oahu is not a Surfers Paradise Lost like so many other places I have seen. Sure I have even been to Sunset and I did not find it too bad. I did not try Pipe though. Anyways, surfing crew I am thinking of returning once again to Rainbow Country and am looking for any people looking to carpool with me from Waikiki to the North Shore and other surfing spots. Maybe in December and definitely for 2 months. Tourists and locals are welcome in my car especially chicks as long as you throw in for rental and gas hahahahaha mbirrer@hotmail.com
thanks
Mike

comment by benn martenson , 2009-03-01 19:00:44

moving to oahu!
my fiance and I are moving to oahu in august. Can anyone give me advice on long term rentals other then craigslist? Greatly appreciated.

comment by Quinn Haber, 2008-09-08 05:56:18

Damn from NZ
Damn,you is one phantasmagoric banana! I've been to Christchurch, NZ - talk about overcrowding! Yikes! FOr your info, swell has been pumping here on Oahu for the past few days and viola! The island has been transmogrified into a kindly Paradise just like that brah!! It's true, my friend. There's plenty of waves to go around, people are cool in the water and yeah, there are a ton of great spots in oahu. In fact, the island is ringed with fabulous, world-class surf spots. Of course Oahu is a famous surfing arena - duh! Surfing was invented here! (NOT Peru, and NOT Africa - sorry Surfer's Journal. Sensationalist contrivances may sell your mags but lack real proof.) Surfing was born in Hawaii and will end here when the rest of the world chokes in pollution and political insanity.

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