SURFBOOKING FORECAST

Your beach's sea, read at each lesson's level

The regional forecast says one metre. Your beach, with the headland in front of it, has half. And the lesson was sold on the metre.

Proprietary calculation, beach by beach, across all of Portugal. Coast facing, swell, exposure, headland shadow and tide, read at each lesson's level and said in plain words.

The decision this replaces
The national coaching syllabus asks a Level I surf coach to use high-resolution forecast models with spectral information to decide which beach is the right one. That is the decision, and it is the one this layer makes for every beach, every day.
Level I Coach Training Reference · Surfing · Portuguese Surf Federation, published by IPDJ. SurfBooking is not endorsed by, nor affiliated with, either body.

A diagram, drawn for this page. The working screen lives inside SurfBooking OS, with your own school's data in it.

Per spot Calculation, never per region
Headland shadow Read from terrain elevation
Per level Same sea, different reading

In production since April 2026, in the hands of surf schools.

HOW IT WORKS

Six steps.

01.

Per spot, never per region

Official sources cross-referenced, then our own calculation on top: coast facing, exposure, the headland shadow read from terrain elevation, and the tide gate. The regional forecast says one metre; your beach may have half.

02.

Read at each lesson's level

The same sea, three readings: beginner, intermediate and advanced, with kids apart. For each level it says whether it is ideal, fine, too small or too heavy, and which tide phase that level prefers.

03.

Wave height in plain words

“0.8 m · waist high”. Nobody books a lesson in metres; the scale runs from flat to double overhead and is the same on the site, in the app and in the school's panel.

04.

The best window of the day, over the bars

Hour-by-hour bars from 7 to 20, the hours lessons happen. Wind and gusts above, the tide below on the same clock, and the best window drawn on top. One “now” line runs through all three drawings.

05.

The sea at your lesson's hour

On every lesson page, the forecast for the booked hour, judged for that lesson's level, refreshed daily. In the panel, the school sees lessons at risk before students reach the beach.

06.

Accuracy measured, not promised

We store every hour's forecast and compare it with what the sea actually did. The percentage only shows once there are enough measurements to back it.

We only take commission when the student came from us. Your own channel and your walk-ins: zero SurfBooking commission.

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