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Measured, and partial. The roster is production’s (60 breaks, 9 hubs) and every number is one the project measured — the roster and the 33-year ocean statistics read from Supabase on 5 Nov 2026, the scores read from production’s ranked score view on 5 Nov 2026 (plus 2 breaks production has not scored, computed here from the same archive by its method). What is not held is shown as an absence, never a guess. Photos are of the real places, each credited; places near the breaks are from OpenStreetMap.

Data & photo licences

Every source, every retrieval date.

Retrieval dates in this build
Climatology coverage
Not available
Places and break DNA checked
5 Nov 2026 From 33 yrs· 5 Nov 2026
Live forecast last fetched
No live fetch in this build

Places near the breaks read from OpenStreetMap on 5 Nov 2026. Sights within 20 km of the breaks and their Wikipedia text read on 4 Nov 2026. Every photograph of a real place is credited below, as its licence asks.

Photographs of the places · Wikimedia Commons

Found automatically from each place’s own OpenStreetMap or Wikidata link, else from licensed Commons photos geotagged near it (`npm run photos`). Served as Wikimedia’s own resized copies; nothing else is changed.

  • Photography · Unsplash

    Hero and card photography where the licence allows it. Credited per photo.

    Unsplash License

  • Photography · Pexels

    Used where Unsplash has no honest match for the place.

    Pexels License

  • Photography · Wikimedia Commons

    Author and licence printed with the photo. Used only for real places: breaks and hubs, and the stays, sights and shops a photo is of.

    CC BY / CC BY-SA

  • Owned photography

    The founder’s own frames. No attribution needed; still listed so the set is complete.

    Wowcean

  • Places near the breaks · OpenStreetMap

    The named stays, surf shops and schools, viewpoints and places to eat near each break, and the sights within reach, with their position and the address, hours, phone and website mappers hold. Not rated, priced or ranked by us; distances are straight lines we compute.

    • © OpenStreetMap contributors
    • https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright
    ODbL 1.0

  • Sights within reach · Wikipedia and Wikidata

    The opening lines of each sight’s English Wikipedia article on the hub page, shortened, with language glosses in brackets removed and a link to the article. Wikidata (CC0) links each mapped place to its article; a link is used only when the article’s name and position are the mapped place’s.

    • Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
    CC BY-SA 4.0 (text) · CC0 (Wikidata)

  • Swell and wind · Copernicus Marine

    33 years of wave hindcast behind every consistency, swell and season figure. Monthly summaries per ocean cell.

    • Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information
    • Dataset GLOBAL_MULTIYEAR_WAV_001_032 (cmems_mod_glo_wav_my_0.2deg_PT3H-i) · 0.2° grid · 3-hourly · 1993 – May 2026 in this build
    Copernicus Marine licence

  • Reanalysis · ERA5

    10 m u/v wind climatology read against coast aspect, per break. 0.25° grid.

    • Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information
    CC-BY 4.0 · since 2 July 2025

  • Cross-check · NOAA WAVEWATCH III

    A second hindcast the Copernicus figures are checked against before a hub is admitted.

    Public domain

  • Live forecast · Open-Meteo

    The “now” and seven-day figures in this beta. Non-commercial tier — swapped for ECMWF Open Data or NOAA GFS-Wave before launch.

    Non-commercial · beta only

  • Places · OpenStreetMap

    Break locations, walk times and the count of breaks within reach of a stay.

    • © OpenStreetMap contributors
    ODbL

  • Break DNA · local surf guides

    Takeoff zones, hazards, tides and the words under each break. Commissioned, attributed and dated per break.

    Commissioned

  • Break facts · published references

    Direction, wave type, bottom, level, hazards, tide and wind on a break page, where a named person checked the sentence on the page and confirmed it. The source and the person are printed under each.

    Quoted facts, linked to the source

  • Water temperature · NOAA OISST v2.1

    Sea temperature by month at each hub’s ocean cell: the middle 80% of days, 1993–2025. Read 3 Nov 2026.

    • NOAA OISST v2.1, NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
    • https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/optimum-interpolation-sst
    Public domain (U.S. Government work)

  • Weather on land · NASA POWER

    Daytime highs, night lows and the wetter and drier months at each hub, 1993–2025, from a ~50 km reanalysis. Read 3 Nov 2026.

    • These data were obtained from the NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) POWER Project funded through the NASA Earth Science/Applied Science Program.
    Free to use without restriction; attribution requested

  • Airports · OurAirports

    The nearest airports with scheduled flights, by straight line from each hub. Read 3 Nov 2026.

    • https://ourairports.com/data/
    Public domain

Nothing on this list is a partner endorsement. Where a licence requires a line of text, it is printed above exactly as the licence asks.