Spot guide
Ouakam is an SW-facing reef break in Dakar, Senegal. It picks up swell from SSE to WNW and WNW to NNW. Offshore wind here blows from the NE: light winds or NE breezes usually mean the cleanest surf, while SW onshores chop it up.
- Break
- Reef
- Faces
- SW (230°)
- Best swell
- W to NNW (270°–340°), 11 s or longer
- Best wind
- N to E offshore, or glassy
- Best surf height
- 3–8 ft at the beach
- Swell window
- SSE to WNW (163° to 285°); WNW to NNW (288° to 345.5°)
- Offshore wind
- NE
- Tide
- Model estimate
- Wave buoy
- None within 250 km
- Cams
- None yet