The report · Spanish Point · Kite · May · 6 pages

WindChaserSpot report

Pembroke Parish, Bermuda

Spanish Point

KiteMay

56% of May days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.

May sits outside the best months here. This report carries the record for May as it is, and no direction or session norm, because there is none to quote. Section 02 shows the year-by-year spread; section 06 shows which months to come instead.

01Hour-by-hour & month-by-month windrecord only02The month's own records03Full stays, schools & kit04Per-launch tide notesno data05The launch, the islands & the park rules06Getting there, packing & best months07Sources, and their limits
Guide
Compiled by WindChaser
29 Sep 2026Record
2017 to 2026, hourly
Open-Meteo, ECMWF IFS HRES 9 kmNormals
2017 to 2026
Ten Mays
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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.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDecKite828075715650403550667578Windsurf777671655042313046626975Wing828075715650403550667578

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, May

Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.

4–7
8–11
12–15
16–19
20–23
24–27
28–31

Not drawn: 7% of daylight hours under 4 kt.

When in the day, May

Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour.

8am
9
10
11
12pm
1pm
2
3
4
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6pm

Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.

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May's own records

The month's own figures from ten Mays in the record, 2017 to 2026. Not the year's average.

Rideable days17 of 31Ten Mays in the record
Wind, rideable hours16 ktMean over daylight hours at 12 kt+
Air21.6°CMaximum
Hours over 12 kt6.4 a dayDaylight, all days averaged
BeforeApril71%21 rideable days in 30
Your monthMay56%17 rideable days in 31
AfterJune50%15 rideable days in 30

What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.

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Full stays, schools & kit

Stays

Lemon and GingerApartment · 0.9 km from the parkHoliday apartment with a garden on Hill Crescent in Spanish Point, about 0.9 km from Spanish Point Park in a straight line. Beach towels and chairs provided.
Windsong Guest ApartmentsApartments · Pembroke · 1.4 km from the parkGuest apartments in a garden on the crest of a hill in Pembroke, near Admiralty House Park and within walking distance of Hamilton, about 1.4 km east of Spanish Point Park in a straight line.
Royal Palms HotelHotel · Pembroke · 2.0 km from the parkBoutique hotel in gardens on Rosemont Avenue, on the edge of Hamilton, about 2 km south-east of Spanish Point Park in a straight line.

Lessons

U Sail BermudaSchool · Windsurf · WingFamily-run centre on Harrington Sound and Castle Harbour offering RYA courses. Windsurf courses, and wingsurf and wing foil first flights.
Island WindsSchool · Kite · WindsurfPrivate and semi-private kite lessons, and windsurf lessons.

Kit

U Sail BermudaRental · WindsurfBeginner and advanced windsurf kit hire on Harrington Sound and Castle Harbour. Its foiling hire is dinghies.
Island WindsRental · KiteComplete kite rental for intermediate and advanced riders after a skills check, at Somerset Long Bay or Elbow Beach.

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.

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Per-launch tide notes

Spanish Point Park
Low—Mid—High—

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.

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The launch, the islands & 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.

National park rulesSpanish Point Park is a protected area under the Bermuda National Parks Act 1986. The park regulations count windsurf boards and surfboards as vessels. No one may use a vessel where a notice closes the area to vessels, use one in a way likely to endanger other people, or store one in the park except where a notice allows it. Sport is allowed only where a notice permits it. Read the notices at the park before you ride.
Spanish Point Islands nature reserveThe Bermuda National Parks Act 1986 lists the Spanish Point Islands as a Class A nature reserve, an area managed to protect special or fragile natural features with limited public access. The park itself is listed without its islands. The Act does not name which islands the listing covers, so treat the islets off the point as part of the reserve.
A rocky launchBoth rigging areas are full of flagpoles or trees, with plenty of sharp rocks. The local spot guide calls the kite launch extremely challenging and treacherous, depending on the wind direction, and says it is best done from a boat. Its rule for launching and landing: if in doubt, do not go out.
Moored boatsThe little bay between the park and the boat club is full of moored boats. Keep lines, kites and boards clear of them when launching and landing.
Winter fronts and hurricane seasonWinter fronts often bring gales or strong winds. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November. Check the Bermuda Weather Service forecast before every session.
Flagpoles, trees and sharp rocks

The spot guide says riders rig on grass, by the Spanish Point Boat Club (a private members’ club) or in the park across the little bay of moored boats. Both are full of flagpoles or trees, with plenty of sharp rocks. The local spot guide calls the kite launch extremely challenging and treacherous, depending on the wind direction, and best done from a boat. Its rule for launching and landing: if in doubt, do not go out.

Moored boats, the islands and the park rules

The little bay between the park and the boat club is full of moored boats: keep lines, kites and boards clear of them. Out front it is mostly chop; behind Cobbler’s Island the water is completely flat. The Bermuda National Parks Act 1986 lists Spanish Point Park (without islands) as a protected area and the Spanish Point Islands as a Class A nature reserve with limited public access, without naming the islands. Read the notices at the park.

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Getting there, packing & best months

Nearest airportL.F. Wade (BDA)About 20 km by road (OSRM routing). The speed limit is 32 km/h (Go To Bermuda), so allow 40 minutes or more.
SeasonNovember to AprilThe months the record shows the most rideable days, from any direction. January is the pick. The spot works in SW to NNE.
Getting aroundBus, taxi or scooterNo conventional car hire; visitors can rent electric cars. Route 4 runs from Hamilton to Spanish Point. Plenty of parking at the park.
What to pack
LaunchGrass. Grass rigging among flagpoles or trees, and plenty of sharp rocks. Treacherous for kites.WaterChop or flat. Mostly chop out front. Completely flat behind Cobbler’s Island.Wetsuit18 to 20°C. Sea temperature December to March, Bermuda Weather Service mean for 1949 to 1992. Bring a full wetsuit.ParkingPlenty. At the park, which has toilets. The boat club has a bar.KitBring your own. No rental at the point. U Sail hires windsurf kit on Harrington Sound.
Kite sizes for May

May has no session mean to size from, so no sizes are given.

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Best months, Kite. Record.

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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.

§WhatSourceLimit
01Kite month sharesRecordCounted at 12 kt for three daylight hours from ecmwf_ifs (ECMWF IFS HRES) at 9 km, cell 1.5 km from the spot, January 2017 to September 2026, 9 to 10 years a month, calibrated by month and hour against ECCC HRDPS Continental 2.5 km over April 2023 to September 2026 (out of sample within 1.0 point at 12 kt). No station correction. Wind from every direction is counted, including the NE to S sector the spot guide leaves out.
01Windsurf and Wing month sharesRecordCounted at 13 kt (Windsurf) and 12 kt (Wing) from the same series, by the same rule as the Kite share.
01Direction, strength, when it blowsWrittenDirection from the Bermuda Kitesurfing spot guide. Strength read from the record. Prevailing wind and winter fronts from the Bermuda Weather Service.
02The month’s recordsRecordNine to ten years a month. The calibration against the 2.5 km model is not a check on the spot; no station check: the nearest station, the airport, is about 14 km away.
03Stays, schools and kitWrittenSchools and rental confirmed on their own sites and the Go To Bermuda directory; none operates at the point. One stay, Lemon and Ginger, confirmed on its own site and its Google listing on 29 September 2026. Listing photos are Google Maps photos, credited on the spot page.
04Tide windowsMissingNo tide source in the pipeline. The section renders its empty state.
05Hazards, the launch and the park rulesWrittenPark and nature reserve listings from the Bermuda National Parks Act 1986, rules from the Regulations 1988. The launch and the moored boats from the spot guide, not surveyed.
06Airports, access, packing, kite sizesWrittenRoad distance from OSRM routing; time from the 32 km/h speed limit, not a timed drive. Sea temperature from the Bermuda Weather Service climatology, an island-wide mean for 1949 to 1992. Sizes derived from the session mean.
MapsMissingNo drawn maps for this spot. No surveyed coordinates for the launch.

The record

Hourly wind, 2017 to 2026, from ECMWF IFS HRES via Open-Meteo: a 9 km grid, read at the cell 1.5 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 nine to ten years.

What we could not source for Spanish Point

Crowds by month. A water quality reading. Tide information. A station check on the wind record, and a record of wind direction. Surveyed launch coordinates. An open-licence photograph of Spanish Point: the page shows Google Maps photos. 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 Daniel Ghinn, Google Maps. 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.

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