Surfline Alternative for Surf Travel

For the question Surfline was not built to answer: where should I go?

40 spots featured

Quick Answer

If you want to check your local break, a traditional surf forecast is enough. If you want to decide which country, region, or airport to fly to, you need a travel-first forecast tool. Strike Mission is a Surfline alternative for that travel decision: it compares spot-specific conditions across destinations and adds logistics context.

Local Forecasts Versus Travel Decisions

Most surf forecast products are organized around a single break. That works when you already know where you will surf. Traveling surfers have a different problem: they need to compare many possible breaks, each with different swell windows, wind tolerance, hazards, difficulty, and access.

The best destination this week might not be the most famous destination. It is the one whose actual forecast fits the spot.

What Makes Strike Mission Different

Strike Mission scores each spot against its own ideal conditions. A south swell can be excellent for one reef and useless for another. A long-period swell can turn a mellow point into a perfect wall, or make a shallow reef too serious for an intermediate surfer. The Strike Score accounts for those local rules.

It also includes travel context: nearest airport, drive time, boat access, hazards, and destination notes. That helps answer the full trip question instead of only the wave-height question.

When To Use Both

Use local forecast tools for cams, local reports, and day-to-day surf checks. Use Strike Mission when money, flights, and PTO are on the line and you need to decide where to go.

Australia(18 spots)

Snapper Rocks

Gold Coast, Australia

Point

Snapper Rocks is the starting point of Australia's legendary Superbank—an artificial sand formation that can create rideable waves stretching over 2 kilometers to Kirra. The...

23°CVery CrowdedAdvancedOOL · 15minSeason: Feb-Oct

Bells Beach

Victoria, Australia

Point

Bells Beach is Australian surfing's spiritual home—a powerful right-hand point break carved into the dramatic sandstone cliffs of Victoria's Great Ocean Road. Home to the world's...

14°CBusyAdvancedMEL · 90minSeason: Mar-Oct

Margaret River

Western Australia, Australia

Reef

Margaret River is Western Australia's undisputed wave capital—a stretch of rugged coastline where powerful Indian Ocean swells meet a minefield of world-class reef breaks. The...

18°CBusyExpertPER · 180minSeason: Apr-Oct

Kirra

Gold Coast, Australia

Point

Kirra is Australian surfing's most storied barrel—a right-hand sand-bottom point that has produced some of the country's most iconic waves when the sand aligns correctly. As the...

23°CVery CrowdedAdvancedOOL · 20minSeason: Mar, Apr, May, Sep, Oct, Nov

Burleigh Heads

Gold Coast, Australia

Point

Burleigh Heads is the Gold Coast's most intense wave—a powerful right-hand point that breaks over a boulder-strewn headland, producing thick barrels and high-performance walls....

22°CVery CrowdedAdvancedOOL · 25minSeason: May-Aug

Noosa First Point

Sunshine Coast, Australia

Point

Noosa First Point is Australia's longboarding mecca—a sequence of five points that produce some of the longest, most perfect right-hand peelers in the country when the rare NE...

24°CVery CrowdedIntermediateMCY · 25minSeason: Jan, Feb, Mar, Nov, Dec

Lennox Head

Northern NSW, Australia

Point

Lennox Head is one of Australia's most revered points—a long, bending right-hander that peels along a basalt boulder headland in northern NSW. When clean SE swells combine with SW...

21°CVery CrowdedAdvancedBNK · 20minSeason: May-Aug

The Pass

Byron Bay, Australia

Point

The Pass is Byron Bay's crown jewel—a long, winding right-hand point that embodies the region's laid-back surf culture. The wave is forgiving and fun, wrapping around the headland...

23°CVery CrowdedBeginnerBNK · 45minSeason: Feb-May

Angourie Point

Northern NSW, Australia

Point

Angourie Point is a historic right-hand point break that helped birth Australian shortboard surfing in the 1960s. The wave breaks over a basalt reef into a deep channel, producing...

21°CBusyAdvancedGFN · 15minSeason: Mar-Oct

North Narrabeen

Sydney, Australia

Beach

North Narrabeen is Sydney's premier beach break—a long stretch of sand where lagoon run-off creates ever-shifting sandbanks that produce world-class lefts on their day. The...

20°CVery CrowdedIntermediateSYD · 35minSeason: Mar-May

The Box

Margaret River, Australia

Slab

The Box is one of the most feared waves on Earth—a mutant right-hand slab that produces square-shaped barrels of terrifying intensity over a barely submerged reef shelf. When...

18°CModerateExpertPER · 200minSeason: Apr-Sep

North Point

Margaret River, Australia

Reef

North Point is Margaret River's big wave venue—a long, powerful right-hander that handles massive swells when other spots close out. The wave breaks over a shallow reef shelf,...

17°CModerateExpertPER · 195minSeason: May-Sep

Strickland Bay

Rottnest Island, Australia

Reef

Strickland Bay is Rottnest Island's premier wave—a quality left-hander that breaks along a limestone reef shelf off Western Australia's quokka-inhabited island paradise. The wave...

19°CBusyAdvancedPERSeason: May-Aug

Shipstern Bluff

Tasmania, Australia

Slab

Shipstern Bluff is one of the most terrifying waves on the planet—a Tasmanian slab famous for its mutant "steps" that form mid-face as the wave throws over a shallow reef ledge....

12°CUncrowdedExpertHBASeason: Jun-Aug

Crescent Head

Mid North Coast NSW, Australia

Point

Crescent Head is the quintessential Australian point break—a long, walling right that peels along a rocky headland for 400+ meters on its day. The wave is forgiving and...

21°CVery CrowdedIntermediatePQQ · 30minSeason: Feb-Nov

Shark Island

Cronulla, Australia

Slab

Shark Island is Sydney's most punishing wave—a right-hand slab that breaks over an almost-dry rock shelf, producing thick, heavy barrels of cartoonish proportions. The wave is...

19°CModerateExpertSYD · 35minSeason: Mar-Aug

Ours

Cape Solander, Australia

Slab

Ours (Cape Fear) is Sydney's most notorious wave—a heavy right-hand slab that breaks over shallow rock in front of dramatic sea cliffs in Bra Boys territory. Made famous by the...

18°CModerateExpertSYD · 40minSeason: Mar-Aug

Cactus

Nullarbor, Australia

Reef

Cactus is Australia's most remote quality surf zone—a collection of breaks at the edge of the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia, where the Southern Ocean delivers raw power to an...

17°CUncrowdedAdvancedADL · 720minSeason: Apr-Sep

Oceania(8 spots)

Restaurants

Mamanuca Islands, Fiji

Reef

Restaurants is Fiji's hidden gem—a perfect left-hand tube that serves as the go-to alternative when Cloudbreak gets too intense. Named after the resort restaurant overlooking it,...

27°CUncrowdedAdvancedNANSeason: Apr-Oct

Namotu Lefts

Mamanuca Islands, Fiji

Reef

Namotu Lefts is one of Fiji's most consistent high-performance waves—a hollow left-hander that breaks right in front of the Namotu Island Resort. The wave produces powerful,...

27°CModerateAdvancedNANSeason: Apr-Oct

Frigates

Kadavu Passage, Fiji

Reef

Frigates is Fiji's Coral Coast answer to Cloudbreak—a heavy left-hand barrel that breaks over a mushroom-shaped reef in the remote Kadavu Passage. The wave is powerful and hollow,...

27°CUncrowdedExpertSUVSeason: Apr-Oct

Lagundri Bay

Nias, Indonesia

Reef

Lagundri Bay (The Point, Nias) is one of the world's most celebrated right-hand barrels—a mechanical reef point that produces tube rides of up to 9 seconds when solid SW swells...

28°CModerateExpertGNS · 150minSeason: May-Aug

Macaronis

Mentawai, Indonesia

Reef

Macaronis is the Mentawai Islands' most user-friendly world-class wave—a forgiving left that produces 4-6 second barrels followed by rippable walls, working in virtually any...

29°CModerateIntermediatePDGSeason: Apr-Oct

Greenbush

Mentawai, Indonesia

Reef

Greenbush is the Mentawai's heaviest square barrel—a shallow left slab that only works on the highest spring tides but produces some of the thickest tubes in Indonesia when it...

29°CUncrowdedExpertPDGSeason: Apr-Jun

Desert Point

Lombok, Indonesia

Reef

Desert Point is one of the longest, most perfect barrel rides on Earth—and one of the most fickle. When SW swells combine with low tide and offshore winds, this Lombok left...

27°CBusyExpertDPS · 240minSeason: May-Oct

Impossibles

Bali, Indonesia

Reef

Impossibles earned its name because it's usually too fast to make—the wave races down a shallow reef so quickly that most sections close out before you can reach them. But with...

28°CBusyExpertDPS · 40minSeason: May-Sep

Pacific(4 spots)

Southeast Asia(4 spots)

North America(3 spots)

Africa(2 spots)

Europe(1 spot)

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