Messanges & Moliets · France
Surfing Messanges
A beach break in Messanges & Moliets, France, for beginner and intermediate surfers.
Messanges has two surf beaches, the Plage Sud and the Plage Nord, both with big campsites behind the dune.
In summer the campsites fill up and so does the water. In winter it's calm, and you can have a peak to yourself. The peaks come and go with the sandbanks, and they don't handle a big swell or a west wind. There's a large car park behind the dune. Use the marked paths to cross it.
It suits beginners and improvers in summer, when the waves are usually small, and more experienced surfers in autumn on a clean swell. Surf schools run lessons from the campsites, and Vieux-Boucau, a few minutes south, has the shops and restaurants.
When to surf
Messanges
Messanges is at its best from year-round. Conditions it likes: W-NW swell, E wind, all tides.
October to March: Prime
Biggest, most powerful groundswell, quieter off-season
April to June: Good
Reliable swell, milder crowds
July to August: Quiet
Smaller swell, packed beaches and high prices
The year across Landes (Hossegor)
Waves near Messanges
Getting there
Where to stay: Moliets has a small resort centre by the main beach and a golf course. Messanges is mostly large campsites behind the dune, busy in summer and very quiet the rest of the year.
Transport, costs, where to stay and the rest of the waves in the area are in the Messanges & Moliets guide.
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