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Supertubos surf forecast
Peniche's heavy, hollow beach break, a world tour stop since 2009, read by Kiwi four times a day. Free, hour by hour, in plain words: the hour worth paddling out for, and the days to leave it to the experts.
When to paddle out at Supertubos
Today and tomorrow hour by hour from 05:00 to 21:00, then every 3 hours for two more days, rated 1 to 5 stars. Green-outlined rows are each day's best window.
15:00–17:00 · offshore
Today 31 Oct
Go 15-17, clean overhead, offshore N (experts).
Kiwi's best shot: 15:00–17:00
Every hour, 05–21
Tide and daylight
- High
- 05:53 3.5 m
- Low
- 12:19 1.3 m
- High
- 18:36 3.1 m
- Sunrise
- 07:02
- Sunset
- 17:38
Tomorrow 1 Nov
Go 09-12, clean chest-shoulder, offshore N (experts).
Best window: 09:00–12:00
Every hour, 05–21
Tide and daylight
- Low
- 00:36 1.5 m
- High
- 07:02 3.3 m
- Low
- 13:38 1.4 m
- High
- 19:56 3.0 m
- Sunrise
- 07:04
- Sunset
- 17:36
Monday 2 Nov
Too small here today, skip.
Every 3 hours
Tide and daylight
- Low
- 01:57 1.7 m
- High
- 08:24 3.2 m
- Low
- 15:05 1.5 m
- High
- 21:25 3.0 m
- Sunrise
- 07:06
- Sunset
- 17:35
Tuesday 3 Nov
Too small here today, skip.
Every 3 hours
Tide and daylight
- Low
- 03:25 1.7 m
- High
- 09:47 3.3 m
- Low
- 16:24 1.4 m
- High
- 22:37 3.1 m
- Sunrise
- 07:07
- Sunset
- 17:34
Forecast point: Supertubos, Peniche (39.346° N, 9.363° W). Waves = estimated breaking height at the beach. Data: Open-Meteo wave and weather models (CC BY 4.0), corrected on buoys. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information (DOI 10.48670/moi-00043). Surf at your own risk.
A north wind is offshore here. Supertubos faces south-west, so the north and north-east wind grooms it; one local guide calls it the way to escape the summer nortada. A south or south-west wind blows it out: that is the day to check the Baleal side.
Supertubos and the Peniche peninsula
Peniche was once an island, and the peninsula now has two coasts that want opposite winds. Supertubos is on the south one, about 2 km from the town centre: a beach break with A-frame peaks that break left and right, fast and hollow, in shallow water close to the shore. A local surf-history site says it was known as Praia do Medão Grande before surfers named it.
Molhe Leste
RightWhen Supertubos is too bigA right that forms off the harbour's east jetty, at the north end of Supertubos beach. The regional tourism board says it needs a big swell, has long tube sections and holds up to about 3 m, and that on big days you paddle out beside the jetty. One guide sends you here when Supertubos is too big, and in March 2024 the world tour ran a day here when Supertubos would not work.
Supertubos
Kiwi forecasts itExpertsBarrelsThe main event: peaks that run both ways, with the left the best known, over a shallow sandbank right by the shore. Rides are short and intense, up to about 150 m. The banks move with the swells and seasons (one local source says a rock shelf underneath helps hold them), so the quality changes from one season to the next.
Its nickname, the European or Portuguese Pipeline, is widely used, the World Surf League included.
Consolação
Reef and pointRights and leftsThe next beach south is a different wave: mostly reef and point rather than a sandbank. The regional tourism board describes a long right over a rock shelf and a left by the fort that needs a big swell. Guides disagree on its best tide.
Baleal and Lagide (north side)
Southerly windsBeginners in the bayAcross the peninsula, the north coast mostly wants the opposite wind, from the south to the east. Surftotal rates the Baleal bay beaches (Prainha, Cantinho da Baía, Baleal) for all levels, and that is where most schools teach; and Lagide is a left over a flat rock reef for experienced surfers. When a south or south-west wind blows Supertubos out, this is the side to check.
What Supertubos needs to fire
These are the exact rules behind Kiwi's rating for this spot. Every hour of the forecast is scored on all four, then turned into a rating of 1 to 5 stars.
Swell
West to south-west, 11 s or longer
The forecast point faces south-west (the line in the dial). Swell from 215° to 285° comes straight in. Every guide names west; some add south, others say long-period north-west swells work too, and one says northerly swells arrive smaller because the peninsula blocks them. One guide puts the best period at about 10 to 16 seconds.
Wind
Offshore from the north-northeast
Wind from about 355° to 65° blows offshore; guides span north to east, with north-east named most often. Under 6 km/h Kiwi calls it glassy. Light shades on the dial are cross-offshore: still fine.
Tide
Mid
Kiwi's rating prefers mid tide, the middle ground of the guides: the council's surf map says mid to low, others say mid to high, and some say any tide, depending on how the banks sit.
Size
Best at 1.4 to 3 metres
Kiwi counts it from about 0.9 metres. Between 1.4 and 3 metres is ideal, and over 4 metres Kiwi says stay out. Guides agree it holds 3 to 4 metres, and one says it only shows its real character from head high.
Kiwi's shortcut: a long-period west to south-west swell, a north or north-east wind and mid tide. If the green-outlined rows show up in the table above and you are not an expert, watch from the sand or head for Baleal.
The best months to surf Supertubos
We replayed Kiwi's rating on every day from January 2025 to October 2026 and counted how often Supertubos' best window reached 4 or 5 stars.
Mar · Apr · MaySpring leads
21% of spring days reached 4 or 5 stars at the best window and 40% had 3 stars or more, with April the strongest month (23%).
Sep · Oct · NovClose behind
14% of autumn days made 4+ stars and 25% had 3 or more. Most guides name autumn and winter as the season, and one says the banks are usually at their best in early autumn.
Dec · Jan · FebBig and heavy
The typical size at the day's best window was 3.3 m, and 14% of winter days made 4+ stars. Surf-forecast.com's statistics name February the best month; on the big days this is a wave for experts only.
Jun · Jul · AugMostly small
July is close to flat (3% of days with 3 stars or more), and the typical size at the best window across summer was 0.8 m. Surf-forecast.com calls summer mostly flat here.
Before you go
Captaincy rules
The Peniche captaincy's edict 712/2024 allows surfing only from sunrise until 30 minutes before sunset, and bans it while IPMA has an orange sea warning out (recognised pros, high-performance athletes and licensed lessons or club sessions are exempt from that ban). Walking on the harbour jetties is banned under the same warning.
A separate edict (5/2025) bans staying on beaches and wave-exposed shoreline under any yellow, orange or red weather warning. It does not name surfing, but it covers being on the beach.
Hazards and lifeguards
Steep, late take-offs, closeouts, a shallow and compacted sand bottom and broken boards on big days; rip currents run between the sandbars. The line-up is crowded and competitive, and one guide rates the localism 4 out of 5.
Lifeguards are on duty only in the bathing season, 1 June to 15 September; we found no cover outside it. Emergencies: 112.
Learning? Go to Baleal
Beginner lessons in Peniche happen almost always on the Baleal side, at schools such as Baleal Surf Camp, Peniche Surf Camp, Naturexperience, Special Surf 78.
Two schools list Supertubos among their spots: Escola de Surf de Peniche, Peniche On Surf. In the bathing season, lessons must stay out of the marked bathing zones, and all year a coach may take at most six students into the water.
Getting there without a car
- Rápida Azul express bus from Lisboa Campo Grande to Peniche bus station: about 80 minutes, 27 trips each way on weekdays and 6 at weekends, €10.30 single.
- Rede Expressos coaches also run from Sete Rios, about hourly (1h10 to 1h35), and FlixBus serves Peniche too.
- From the bus station, Peniche's town bus CHORA stops at 'Praia Supertubos (Estádio)' 3 minutes later; on foot it is about 2 km as the crow flies.
Driving and parking
About 100 km and 1h15 from Lisbon: north on the A8, exit 14 onto the IP6 for Peniche. The A8 tolls to Bombarral add up to €5.65 for a car in 2026 (our sum of the official table). One guide says to allow 1h30 to 2h on summer weekends.
The car park is 30 m from the sand, and the council lists no parking charge. In contest weeks the council asks visitors to take the CHORA bus instead.
A world tour stop since 2009
The world's best have surfed Supertubos every year since 2009, except 2020 and 2021. Winners include Kelly Slater (2010), John John Florence (2016), Gabriel Medina (2017) and Italo Ferreira (2018 and 2019). From 2022 to 2025 the event ran in March; in 2026 it moved to October, and on 23 October Molly Picklum and Griffin Colapinto won, Colapinto becoming the first surfer to win here three times.
Supertubos also hosts the final stage of Portugal's national championship, the Liga MEO Surf: in 2026 the Bom Petisco Peniche Pro runs from 30 October to 1 November. As of 30 October 2026, no 2027 world tour calendar had been published.
Crowds
Good days are packed, sometimes dangerously so. WannaSurf users say a few surfers on weekdays and many at weekends. One guide says contest week brings huge crowds and scarce rooms, and suggests coming a couple of weeks before or after.
Water and wetsuit
About 14 to 15 °C in late winter and about 17 to 19 °C from late summer into October. An IPMA meteorologist explains that the summer north wind brings cold water up at the coast, so hot summer days can still mean 14 to 15 °C. A 4/3 mm suit with boots for late winter, a 3/2 or a long-sleeve shorty in August.
The water is clean: Supertubos holds a 2026 Blue Flag and Quercus's 'Qualidade de Ouro', and APA rated it excellent every year from 2011 to 2020.
Webcams
KiwiSurf has no camera of its own yet. MEO Beachcam runs public cams at Supertubos, Molhe Leste, Consolação, Lagide and Baleal. Surftotal's Supertubos cam showed as temporarily unavailable when we checked.
Tide tables in UTC
The captaincy's official Peniche tide table prints times in UTC: add an hour in Portuguese summer time, or you will be an hour off. Kiwi's table above is already in local time. In October 2026 spring tides ran from about 3.4 m down to 0.4 m.
Where the numbers come from
The method
Kiwi starts from Open-Meteo's wave models (at Supertubos: ECMWF WAM, Météo-France, NOAA's GFS wave model and Open-Meteo's own best-match blend, read in open water off Peniche) and corrects them with a model trained on past forecasts against Instituto Hidrográfico buoys, before anything else happens.
Then each hour at Supertubos is scored on the four rules above (swell, wind, tide, size) and calibrated so that 4 stars here mean the same as 4 stars at Ericeira or Caparica.
What we can prove
Measured on 30 days the model never trained on (29 September to 28 October 2026) at the offshore buoys. Not every week is better: in the last 7 days of that test, with big October swells, waves were 6% worse.
Kiwi has no buoy at Supertubos, so the size at the beach is our model's estimate, not a measurement. See the full accuracy test.
Supertubos surf questions
What is the surf like at Supertubos today?
Kiwi's 07:56 run gives Supertubos 5/5 stars today: Go 15-17, clean overhead, offshore N (experts). Waves 1.6–2.2 m, 13 s swell from the WNW, wind offshore N 14 km/h, tide mid rising. The table above has today and tomorrow hour by hour from 05:00 to 21:00 and the two days after every 3 hours.
Is Supertubos good for beginners?
No. On a real swell it is a wave for advanced and expert surfers: steep take-offs, closeouts, a shallow sandbank and rips. A couple of guides say small, clean days can suit intermediates. Beginners learn on the Baleal side, where most Peniche schools teach.
Why is Supertubos called the European Pipeline?
Because of its hollow, fast barrels breaking in shallow water close to the shore. The nickname, European or Portuguese Pipeline, is used widely, the World Surf League included; we found no source on who first used it.
When is the best time to surf Supertubos?
Most guides name autumn and winter, roughly October to March. In Kiwi's replay of 2025 and 2026 the best season was spring, closely followed by autumn, counting 4- and 5-star days, while winter was often big and heavy and summer mostly small.
What wind and tide work best at Supertubos?
A north to north-east wind is offshore, which makes Supertubos a way to escape the summer nortada, as one local guide puts it. On the tide, guides disagree; Kiwi's rating leans to mid tide, and guides add that it depends on how the banks sit.
Is there a webcam at Supertubos?
Not from KiwiSurf yet. MEO Beachcam runs a public Supertubos cam, plus cams at Molhe Leste, Consolação, Lagide and Baleal. A cam shows you now; Kiwi tells you which hour to go.
When is the WSL contest at Supertubos?
Supertubos has been a world tour stop every year since 2009, except 2020 and 2021. The 2026 MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal had a 16 to 25 October waiting period, with finals on 23 October. The 2027 calendar had not been published at the end of October 2026.
Who won the 2026 Rip Curl Pro Portugal?
Molly Picklum and Griffin Colapinto, on 23 October 2026. Colapinto beat Gabriel Medina in the final and became the first surfer to win the Portugal event three times (2022, 2024 and 2026); Picklum beat Caitlin Simmers.
How do I get to Supertubos from Lisbon?
By car, about 100 km and 1h15 on the A8 and the IP6. By bus, the Rápida Azul express runs from Campo Grande to Peniche in about 80 minutes; from the bus station take the town bus CHORA to 'Praia Supertubos (Estádio)', or walk (about 2 km as the crow flies).
Where can I surf in Peniche when Supertubos is not working?
When a south or south-west wind blows it out, check the Baleal side: the north coast mostly wants southerly to easterly winds. When it is too big, one guide suggests Molhe Leste at the north end of the beach.
What is the water temperature at Supertubos?
About 14 to 15 °C in late winter and about 17 to 19 °C from late summer into October. An IPMA meteorologist explains that the summer north wind can bring cold water up to the coast, so it can be 14 to 15 °C on a hot day.
Are there lifeguards at Supertubos?
Only in the bathing season, from 1 June to 15 September. Outside those dates we found no lifeguard cover, so surf with others and know the rips. Emergencies: 112.
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