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Eastern CapeSupertubesBruce's Beauties
Garden RouteVictoria Bay
Cape TownMuizenbergLlandudnoLong BeachDungeons
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Live in Lisbon · Coming to South Africa

Howzit, South Africa.
Your 06:00 surf call is coming.

Tell Kiwi the waves you like, when you can surf and how far you'll drive. You'll get the sessions that suit you every morning at 06:00, from J-Bay to Dungeons to Durban. Live in Lisbon today, South Africa is next. No app needed.

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Sample
🔔 Your sessionSupertubes 8/10
You told Kiwi
  • 🌊 4-6ft, head high and up
  • ⏰ Dawn, weekends
  • 🚗 Up to 1 hour from Gqeberha
Hour by hour, Long Beach
How's @Muizenberg at 5pm?
@ Break

Ten breaks on Kiwi's list for South Africa

SupertubesBruce's BeautiesVictoria BayMuizenbergLlandudnoLong BeachDungeonsElands BayNew PierCave Rock

“Not just now. Not now now. 06:00, sharp.

Tell me the waves you like and I'll tell you when they come through, bru.”

KiwiForecaster, KiwiSurf

Meet Kiwi,
your 06:00 surf call.

Your whole coast in one message

At 06:00 Kiwi posts the best break first, then the rest of your coast: best window, wave face in feet, period, swell direction, wind in km/h, tide, and one plain line on who it's for.

KiwiSurf · Cape TownTelegram · daily at 06:00
Sample

🌊 Cape Town surf · sample

🏆 Long Beach, Kommetjie Best today
Rating8/10
Window07-10
Size4-5ft
Windoffshore SE 15 km/h

Then the rest of the coast:

  1. 2Llandudnobest 07-097/10
  2. 3Muizenbergbest 08-104/10
  3. 4Dungeonstoo small for Dungeons1/10
Kiwi says
Go 07-10, clean and head high, offshore SE (intermediate and up).
Swell
13 s from SW (235°), tide low rising
Light
05:49 to 19:12 · air 19°C

Sample message with South African breaks, to show the format. Not a forecast: forecasts for South Africa start when Kiwi launches there.

Hour by hour, 1 to 5 kiwis

All your breaks on one grid. Every daylight hour gets 1 to 5 kiwis, and a frame marks each break's best window, so you can see the tide turn before you drive.

Ask in plain words

“How's Muizenberg at 5pm?” Kiwi answers from the same forecast data. Add it to your crew's group chat and say “kiwi” for a roll call.

Sample
How's Muizies at 5pm?
Kiwi1 kiwi at 17:00: small and onshore in the south-easter, its best was 08-10. Keen for a wave this afternoon? Long Beach is 3 kiwis from 15:00 to 17:00, offshore and lekker.
Shot, Kiwi. Long Beach it is 🤙

Where Kiwi posts

Telegram live in LisbonWhatsApp later

Go deeper when
the swell turns serious.

Four days, four wave models, one chart

The pro view lays out offshore swell with the spread of four wave models, surf at the break, period and direction, wind and gusts, and the tide, hour by hour for four days.

4 daysHour by hourfor every break
4 modelsWave forecastscorrected on buoys
10 breaksOwn rules eachswell window, wind, tide
KiwiSurf pro chart for Ericeira Coxos, Portugal: swell, surf, period, wind and tide over four days

The real pro chart for Ericeira Coxos, Portugal, on 29 Oct 2026. Charts for South African breaks will look the same, in feet and km/h.

Tell Kiwi how you surf

Your level, days, time of day, wave size and type, where you start and how far you'll drive, then your favourite breaks from photos. Alerts fire only for sessions that suit you on every count, up to 3 days ahead, one a day at most.

How big do you like it? Tap all that fit.

Your coast on one map

Swell and wind over the sea, with every break's rating on the coastline. Ask for any hour of the day.

KiwiSurf swell and wind map of the Lisbon coast at 09:00

Lisbon's real map at 09:00. Your coast's map comes with the launch.

How Kiwi keeps score

“Kiwi's numbers are proven in Lisbon, on 30 days the model never trained on.

For South Africa we'll publish ours only after the same test on local data.”

Our ruleNo borrowed numbers from another coast

A forecast that
keeps score.

Every forecast checked against the buoys

In Lisbon, every morning at 09:30 Kiwi scores the day before against wave buoys and airport weather stations, and keeps a rolling 7, 30 and 60-day record. South Africa gets the same scoreboard, checked against the nearest public wave buoys, and we'll say where there aren't any.

Scoreboard · South AfricaOpens after 30 scored days
Wave height error—after launch
Wind speed error—after launch
Wave period error—after launch
Days scored0after launch

Day 0 of 30

Mean absolute error against raw Open-Meteo, the same test as in Lisbon. Until Kiwi has 30 scored days here, this board stays empty, and when the numbers come in we'll show the bad weeks too.

Learns from your 👍 and 👎

Surfed today? Reply with the break and a thumb. One vote per break per day. After 50 votes Kiwi re-fits how much wind, period, direction and tide count, and a human approves before anything changes.

How a spot's rating is weighed in Lisbon today
Wind45%
Period25%
Direction15%
Tide15%
J-Bay 👍Muizies 👎re-fit at 50 votes

Retrains every Sunday, keeps the winner

A challenger model trains on the newest buoy data each week. It goes live only if it is at least 2% better overall and never more than 5% worse at any buoy.

Kiwi's log › The plan for South Africa
Train the correction on past forecasts against local data
Score 30 days it never trained on, then publish the result here

Then

AEvery Sunday retrain on the newest week of data

Ten breaks, from J-Bay
to Durban

Jeffreys Bay, Eastern Cape

Supertubes

One of the best right-hand point breaks on earth: long, fast walls and barrels down the aloe-lined point. Fires on a big south-west groundswell with a westerly.

Level
Advanced
Best
Winter, SW swell, W wind
Watch for
Rocky entry, crowds when it's on
Cape St Francis, Eastern Cape

Bruce's Beauties

The long right made famous by The Endless Summer. It only breaks on a big, long-period swell, then peels for ages.

Level
Advanced
Best
Rare: big swell, SW wind
Watch for
Rocks, often flat
Garden Route, Western Cape

Victoria Bay

A small cove below the cliffs with a consistent right-hand point that breaks along the rocks.

Level
Intermediate and up
Best
S-SW swell, N-NW wind
Watch for
Rocks along the point, crowds
False Bay, Cape Town

Muizenberg

Gentle, rolling waves in front of the famous painted beach huts, where a big part of the country learned to surf.

Level
Beginners and up
Best
SW swell, NW wind
Watch for
Crowds, bluebottles in summer
Atlantic Seaboard, Cape Town

Llandudno

A heavy beach break between giant granite boulders, with icy Atlantic water and some of the best sunsets in the city.

Level
Advanced
Best
SW-W swell, SE wind
Watch for
Heavy shorebreak, very cold water
Kommetjie, Cape Town

Long Beach

A consistent beach break on the Atlantic side, offshore in the south-easter and often the peninsula's best bet.

Level
Intermediate and up
Best
SW-W swell, SE wind
Watch for
Cold water, rips
Hout Bay, Cape Town

Dungeons

The country's big-wave arena below the Sentinel: a giant right over an outer reef, for the brave only.

Level
Big-wave experts
Best
Winter, huge W-SW swell, light N wind
Watch for
Huge sets, cold water, boat access
West Coast, Western Cape

Elands Bay

A long left point up the Cape West Coast that peels for hundreds of metres in a south-easter.

Level
Intermediate and up
Best
SW-W swell, SE wind
Watch for
Kelp, cold water, long drive
Durban, KwaZulu-Natal

New Pier

Durban's best-known wave: punchy rights and lefts along the pier in warm Indian Ocean water.

Level
Intermediate and up
Best
S to E swell, W-SW wind
Watch for
Pier pilings, crowds
Bluff, Durban

Cave Rock

A heavy right-hand reef barrel on the Bluff, Durban's answer to Hawaii.

Level
Experts
Best
S-SW swell, NW-W wind
Watch for
Shallow reef, heavy lip

Kiwi's coming to South Africa.Be first in the water when it lands.

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How Kiwi will make the call

4 modelsOpen-Meteo × local buoys

Four wave models, corrected on buoys

Open-Meteo's four wave models, bias-corrected by a model trained on past forecasts against local buoys: the method that runs in Lisbon today.
10 breaksOwn rules each

Rules for every break

Each break gets its own swell window, offshore wind, ideal size and tide from public surf guides, then a rating from 1 to 10.
3 daysAlerts ahead

Pinged before the good days

Kiwi looks 3 days ahead and messages you when a session fits your waves, your time of day and your breaks. One alert a day at most.

Frequently asked questions

Don't see your question? Get in touch

Is KiwiSurf live in South Africa?

Not yet. Today Kiwi forecasts ten spots around Lisbon, Portugal. South Africa is next on the list: join the waitlist and we'll email you once, when your coast opens.

Which breaks will it cover?

We're starting with Supertubes and Bruce's Beauties in the Eastern Cape; Victoria Bay on the Garden Route; Muizenberg, Llandudno, Long Beach and Dungeons in Cape Town; Elands Bay on the West Coast; and New Pier and Cave Rock in Durban. Tell us your coast on the waitlist so we know where to add more.

When does the forecast arrive?

Every day at 06:00 SAST. Not just now: 06:00. Each message ends with the best break for each of the next three days.

Feet or metres?

Wave faces in feet, the way everyone talks about it in the water. Wind in km/h, temperatures in °C.

How does the 1 to 5 kiwi rating work?

Each break gets a score from 1 to 10 for size, wind, period, swell direction and tide. In the graphics that score becomes 1 to 5 kiwis: 1 kiwi is poor, 5 kiwis is firing.

How accurate will it be?

We don't know yet, and we won't guess. In Lisbon the forecast is scored every morning against buoys, on days the model never trained on. South Africa gets the same test, and we'll publish the numbers only after 30 scored days, bad weeks included.

How does Kiwi know what I like?

You tell it once, in a few taps: your level, which days and times you can surf, the wave size and type you like, where you start and how far you'll drive, and your favourite breaks, picked from photos. Kiwi then alerts you only for sessions that suit you, up to 3 days ahead, one alert a day at most.

Do I need to install an app?

No. Kiwi lives in Telegram. WhatsApp comes later.

What will it cost?

At launch, paid plans may include a 7-day free trial for new subscribers, and you'll see the price before you pay anything. Joining the waitlist is free.

Where will the data come from?

Open-Meteo wave and weather models (CC BY 4.0), corrected against public buoys where they exist, plus airport weather reports (METAR). Surf at your own risk.

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