The report · Horseshoe Bay · Kite · January · 6 pages
Southampton Parish, Bermuda
Horseshoe Bay
81% of January days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
Hour-by-hour & month-by-month wind
Rideable-day share by month, all three sports
Share of days with three or more daylight hours over each sport's threshold, counted from the record at 12 kt, Windsurf 13 kt and Wing 12 kt.
Blue fill scales with the share. Selected month outlined. Threshold per row: Kite 12 kt · Windsurf 13 kt · Wing 12 kt.
Where the wind sits, January
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 3% of daylight hours under 4 kt and 1% at 32 kt and over.
When in the day, January
Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
January's own records
The month's own figures from ten Januaries in the record, 2017 to 2026. Not the year's average.
What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.
Full stays, schools & kit
Stays
Lessons
Kit
Price band $ to $$$ only where sourced; none shown means none held. Contact details and brands stocked join this table when the operator directory is connected.
Per-launch tide notes
The spot guide says middle to high tide is best, for longer rides and more space.
No tide advice for riders. Bermuda Attractions, a visitor guide, says shallow reefs come out of the water at low tide here.
Tide data not yet available for this spot. The record holds wind, air and waves, not tide. Until a tide source is connected, the tables above stay empty rather than estimated. What the guide says about tide is on the next page, in words.
Shore break, rips & the park rules
Every hazard on the spot page, repeated here in full. Read this before you get wet.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Cliffs close off both ends of the bay, and the wind that works here blows onshore, towards the beach. The shore break is sometimes large, and it gets choppy on the outside. The spot guide rates middle to high tide best, for longer rides and more space. Keep clear of the rocks at either end when launching and landing.
The U.S. Consulate General in Bermuda warns that rip tides can be dangerous, particularly on South Shore beaches; Go To Bermuda says they show as sandy, churned-up water and that anyone caught in one should swim parallel to the shore. Graykite calls it the busiest beach on the island; the spot guide warns of swimmers in the warmer months, crowds when a cruise ship is in and surfers when the surf is up. Go To Bermuda says lifeguard cover is seasonal, usually May to October, 10am to 6pm, subject to staff availability; in December 2025 the Government said six RNLI lifeguards had been hired, as a temporary measure, to cover the beach all year. Do not assume a lifeguard is on duty. Horseshoe Bay lies within South Shore Park, a protected area under the Bermuda National Parks Act 1986: read the notices at the beach.
Getting there, packing & best months
Derived from the 17 to 19 kt mean over the season’s rideable hours in the record, November to April, not from a fitted quiver. Fronts can blow much harder.
Best months, Kite. Record.
Sources, and their limits
Where each section of this report comes from. Record is measured. Modelled is computed by a formula because no measurement exists yet; it looks like data and is not. Written is WindChaser's editorial copy, compiled from the sources below.
The record
Hourly wind, 2017 to 2026, from ECMWF IFS HRES via Open-Meteo: a 9 km grid, read at the cell 2.4 km from the spot. It knows the wind over the cell, not the gust on the sand in front of you, and it knows the bearing, not the coastline: "side-onshore" is a rider's reading of the bearing. Each month is counted over nine to ten years.
What we could not source for Horseshoe Bay
Crowds by month as a count. A water quality reading for the winter months. Tide information. A station check on the wind record, and a record of wind direction. Surveyed launch coordinates. A licensed photograph of riding at Horseshoe Bay. Where any of these is missing above, the section says so rather than filling itself.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 29 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by Ekem, CC BY-SA 3.0. Report generated 22 Oct 2026 from record version 2026.10; a report and its spot page are rendered from the same data and cannot disagree.