The report · Lee-on-the-Solent · Kite · April · 6 pages
Hampshire, United Kingdom
Lee-on-the-Solent
64% of April 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, April
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 7% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, April
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.
April's own records
The month's own figures from four Aprils in the record, 2022 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.
Launch notes and the club slipway
Tidal. The club says its slipway gives access at all states of the tide. Hours per tide state unknown until tide data arrives.
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.
Browndown Ranges, shingle & club racing
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.
The beach is shingle, with a strip of grass in front of it. The sailing club has its own slipway at the Signal Station, at the end of Marine Parade East, and says it has access at all states of the tide. It is a members’ club: nothing read says whether visitors may launch from the slipway.
The Browndown Ranges start at the shore by the junction of Queens Road and Marine Parade East, where the club’s Signal Station stands, and the range’s sea area runs south-east along the shore and out into the Solent. While red flags fly to signal firing, no person may enter or remain in the land area or the sea area, or bring a vessel into them. The flags fly at half mast half an hour before firing and at full mast during firing, with red lights at night. The club races from March to November. The Solent is tidal: the club publishes ADMIRALTY tide predictions for Lee. In an emergency call 999 and ask for the Coastguard.
Getting there, packing & best months
Not derived: no source names Lee-on-the-Solent as a kite launch. The record’s mean over rideable hours is 16 to 20 kt through the year.
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, 2022 to 2026, from Météo-France AROME France HD via Open-Meteo: a 1.5 km grid, read at the cell 0.5 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 three to four years.
What we could not source for Lee-on-the-Solent
A wind direction range written for Lee itself rather than by reference to Hill Head. Whether visitors may launch from the sailing club. How often the Browndown Ranges fire. Gosport Borough Council beach rules, and a bathing water classification (both services refused every request). The water state at Lee itself, and a water temperature. Crowds by month and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. A windsurf or wing school or hire, and a stay confirmed on its own site (the nearest guest house’s own site did not load). Tide windows. A station check on the wind record. A licensed photograph.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 27 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by Tim Glover, CC BY-SA 2.0. 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.