The report · Soma Bay · Kite · September · 6 pages
Red Sea, Egypt
Soma Bay
99% of September 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, September
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 1% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, September
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.
September's own records
The month's own figures from ten Septembers 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.
Stays, centres & 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 notes
No tide information found for this launch.
No tide information found for this launch.
No tide information found for this launch.
No tide information found for this launch.
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.
Shallows, coral & centre zones
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 CDWS protocol requires centres to advise riders on the locations of reefs and rocks to avoid, and lists damaging or breaking reefs or marine life as a violation. No source read maps the reefs in the bay: ask your centre before you ride, and never stand on coral.
At KBC the water along the shore is so shallow that nobody can kite or wing there at first; training and riding start a little further out in deeper water, with boats in support. The wind blows side-offshore, and at Tornado Surf offshore from the north-west in the morning, so ride where a centre has a rescue boat on the water. The 7 Bft KiteHouse runs a boat to a spot at Tobia Island for riders at VDWS level 5 or IKO 3L and above.
Getting there, packing & best months
Derived from the mean of about 17 kt over the season’s rideable hours in the record, June to October, not from a fitted quiver. A coarse 9 km record, not yet checked against a station or an independent model: treat it as a guide.
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 4.0 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 Soma Bay
Crowds by month: no count exists for Soma Bay yet. Whether the bay lies inside a marine protected area, and any Red Sea Governorate rule for wind sports. A windsurf centre confirmed in full (Surfmotion, the Robinson Club centre). Surveyed launch coordinates for the four centres. The resort hotels read on their own pages for the Stays tab. A water quality classification, a measured water temperature and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. Tide tables and per-launch tide windows. A station check on the wind record. Guide photographs. 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, 27 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by dronepicr, CC BY 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.