Kite with Jája

Kitesurfing in Saldanha

1 kite spot or kite centre is mapped around Saldanha (South Africa) in OpenStreetMap. The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Cape Town International Airport (CPT), 110 km in a straight line.

Show on the map -33.1044, 18.0350

Wind across the year

Windier months: November-February. The prevailing wind blows from the south-west (218°).

Values by month
relative to the windiest month
January100
February93
March85
April74
May69
June74
July74
August76
September78
October85
November94
December96

Monthly mean wind at 10 m from the NASA POWER model (MERRA-2, grid of about 50 km, 2001-2025 climatology), shown relative to the windiest month. It shows the pattern across the year, not the wind on the beach: local thermal wind is often stronger.

Mapped in OpenStreetMap

  • Kite Basecamp

    Kite centre or school · OSM

Nearest airports

  • Cape Town International Airport (CPT), Cape Town: 110 km in a straight line

About Saldanha: Wikipedia · Wikidata

Other places nearby

Sources: OpenStreetMap (ODbL), Wikidata (CC0), NASA POWER, OurAirports. Data downloaded 16 October 2026.