Spot report

🇨🇦Nitinat Lake, British Columbia

updated 04:15 local · open-meteo

🪁 Kitesurf💨 Windsurf· tidal lake · base: Lake Cowichan

A brackish Vancouver Island lake with a mid-morning-to-sunset thermal that locals claim is the most consistent 20+ kn wind in North America, with a lakeside campground run by the Ditidaht Nation.

Heads up · Logging roads, no cell service, rocky barnacle launch

Season · suits intermediates

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Source ↗
Wind
8 km/h
gusts 17 · from W
Waves
1.4 m
9 s period · sea 12.7 °C
Road
dry
dry — 13 °C
Daylight
07:38 → 18:31
13 °C air · 0.2 mm · UV 0

What's rideable right now

Wind

Water

Mountain

River

🌊

Surf

FIRING

1.4 m @ 9 s — it's on

Best windows this week

  • Sat 7am–6pmFIRING

    2.2 m @ 10 s — it's on · 12 h

  • Sun 7am–6pmFIRING

    2.1 m @ 11 s — it's on · 12 h

  • Fri 7am–6pmFIRING

    1.7 m @ 10 s — it's on · 12 h

This week

Today

10 km/h · 1.6 m

12–16 °C · 10 mm

🌊Surf

Thu

14 km/h · 1.3 m

13–22 °C

🌊Surf

Fri

11 km/h · 1.7 m

13–21 °C · 6 mm

🌊Surf

Sat

13 km/h · 2.2 m

7–15 °C · 4 mm

🌊Surf

Sun

8 km/h · 2.1 m

6–16 °C

🌊Surf

Mon

8 km/h · 1.7 m

8–17 °C

🌊Surf

Tue

7 km/h · 1.4 m

7–18 °C

🌊Surf

bars: daily max wind · wave · best sport each day

Pack list

  • Water 12.7 °C → 5/4, boots, gloves and a hood
  • UV 0 — low → no sun worries today
  • 13 °C → light layer you can stash
  • Daylight 07:38–18:31 → golden hour from 17:31

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