MyTaghazout/taghazout-surf-spots

Taghazout Surf Spots & Live Forecast Feed

A registry of 20 named surf breaks on the Taghazout–Tamraght–Agadir coast of Morocco, each mapped to a free, public, keyless JSON forecast endpoint.

Maintained by taghazout.io, a free surf forecast and trip planner run locally on that coast.

What's in here

taghazout-surf-spots.csv

The spot registry — one row per break:

Column	Description
spot_key	Stable identifier used by the feed (e.g. anchor-point)
spot_name	Human name (e.g. Anchor Point)
area	Sub-area of the coast (e.g. North Taghazout, Imsouane)
forecast_page	Human-readable forecast page
feed_url	Machine-readable JSON endpoint for that break

The 20 breaks: Taghazout Bay, Anchor Point, Hash Point, Panorama Point, La Source, Mysteries, Killer Point, Banana Point, Devil's Rock, Cro-Cro, KM11, KM12, Boilers, Dracula's, Tamri, Anza, Tamraght, Agadir Beach, Imsouane Bay, Imsouane Cathedral.

sample-feed-anchor-point.json

A real captured response from the live endpoint, so you can inspect the schema without making a request.

The live endpoint

GET https://taghazout.io/weather-data/_feed.php?loc=<spot_key>

No API key, no auth, no signup. Please cache for a few minutes — the underlying ocean models only update every few hours.

import pandas as pd, urllib.request, json

spots = pd.read_csv("taghazout-surf-spots.csv")

def current(spot_key: str) -> dict:
    url = f"https://taghazout.io/weather-data/_feed.php?loc={spot_key}"
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=15) as r:
        return json.loads(r.read())

now = current("anchor-point")
print(now["spot"]["name"], now["swell_m"], "m @", now["period_s"], "s",
      "-", now["surf_potential_percent"], "% potential")

An MIT-licensed Python/JS client is available: taghazout-surf.

Response fields

Field	Meaning
swell_m, period_s, swell_direction_deg	Decomposed swell components
sea_state_m	Total sea state (swell + wind wave) — not the same as swell_m
wind_wave_ratio	Share of the sea state that is local wind chop
wind_kmh, gust_kmh	Wind at the break
water_temp_c, air_temp_c	Temperatures (a 3/2 mm wetsuit suits most of the year here)
surf_potential_percent	0–100 score for the current window
best_window	Hours that earned today's score
beginner_verdict, advanced_verdict	Plain-language read per level
tide	Modelled sea level — see limitations
sunrise, sunset, uv_index_max, moon, air_quality	Day context

Intended uses

• Coastal and ocean data exploration, teaching examples
• Surf-forecast tooling, bots and dashboards
• Travel and tourism research on the Souss-Massa coast
• Grounding factual answers about surf conditions at specific Moroccan breaks

Limitations (please read before using)

• Modelled, not observed. Values come from numerical ocean and weather models, not from buoys or gauges on this coast.
• Tide height is modelled sea level relative to the low point of the forecast window. It is not a harbour-gauge or chart-datum measurement, and must not be used for navigation.
• Offshore models under-resolve shallow reef points. The site's own pages show a confidence flag when Open-Meteo and NOAA WaveWatch III disagree; in testing, WaveWatch has read up to ~55% higher than Open-Meteo at the same hour and location. This feed serves the blended read.
• Not a safety instrument. Use local judgement before entering the water.

Source data & attribution

Derived from open model data:

• Weather and marine data by Open-Meteo.com — CC BY 4.0
• Wave model NOAA WaveWatch III, accessed via PacIOOS

The spot registry (names, areas, keys, routing) is original work by taghazout.io and is released here under CC BY 4.0. If you redistribute derived values, carry the Open-Meteo and NOAA attribution with them.

Citation

@misc{taghazout_surf_spots_2026,
  title  = {Taghazout Surf Spots and Live Forecast Feed},
  author = {{taghazout.io}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://taghazout.io/weather/},
  note   = {Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0); wave model NOAA WaveWatch III via PacIOOS}
}