MyTaghazout/taghazout-surf-spots

Taghazout Surf Spots & Live Forecast Feed

A registry of 20 named surf breaks on the Taghazout–Tamraght–Agadir coast of Morocco, each mapped to a free, public, keyless JSON forecast endpoint.

Maintained by taghazout.io, a free surf forecast and trip planner run locally on that coast.

What's in here

taghazout-surf-spots.csv

The spot registry — one row per break:

The 20 breaks: Taghazout Bay, Anchor Point, Hash Point, Panorama Point, La Source, Mysteries, Killer Point, Banana Point, Devil's Rock, Cro-Cro, KM11, KM12, Boilers, Dracula's, Tamri, Anza, Tamraght, Agadir Beach, Imsouane Bay, Imsouane Cathedral.

sample-feed-anchor-point.json

A real captured response from the live endpoint, so you can inspect the schema without making a request.

The live endpoint

GET https://taghazout.io/weather-data/_feed.php?loc=<spot_key>

No API key, no auth, no signup. Please cache for a few minutes — the underlying ocean models only update every few hours.

import pandas as pd, urllib.request, json

spots = pd.read_csv("taghazout-surf-spots.csv")

def current(spot_key: str) -> dict:
    url = f"https://taghazout.io/weather-data/_feed.php?loc={spot_key}"
    with urllib.request.urlopen(url, timeout=15) as r:
        return json.loads(r.read())

now = current("anchor-point")
print(now["spot"]["name"], now["swell_m"], "m @", now["period_s"], "s",
      "-", now["surf_potential_percent"], "% potential")

An MIT-licensed Python/JS client is available: **taghazout-surf**.

Response fields

Intended uses

• —Coastal and ocean data exploration, teaching examples
• —Surf-forecast tooling, bots and dashboards
• —Travel and tourism research on the Souss-Massa coast
• —Grounding factual answers about surf conditions at specific Moroccan breaks

Limitations (please read before using)

• —Modelled, not observed. Values come from numerical ocean and weather models, not from buoys or gauges on this coast.
• —Tide height is modelled sea level relative to the low point of the forecast window. It is not a harbour-gauge or chart-datum measurement, and must not be used for navigation.
• —Offshore models under-resolve shallow reef points. The site's own pages show a confidence flag when Open-Meteo and NOAA WaveWatch III disagree; in testing, WaveWatch has read up to ~55% higher than Open-Meteo at the same hour and location. This feed serves the blended read.
• —Not a safety instrument. Use local judgement before entering the water.

Source data & attribution

Derived from open model data:

• —Weather and marine data by [Open-Meteo.com](https://open-meteo.com/) — CC BY 4.0
• —Wave model NOAA WaveWatch III, accessed via [PacIOOS](https://www.pacioos.hawaii.edu/)

The spot registry (names, areas, keys, routing) is original work by taghazout.io and is released here under CC BY 4.0. If you redistribute derived values, carry the Open-Meteo and NOAA attribution with them.

Citation

@misc{taghazout_surf_spots_2026,
  title  = {Taghazout Surf Spots and Live Forecast Feed},
  author = {{taghazout.io}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://taghazout.io/weather/},
  note   = {Weather data by Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0); wave model NOAA WaveWatch III via PacIOOS}
}