Surf Breaks in Australia
56 breaks mapped across 8 regions. Conditions, tips, and crew at every spot.
Showing 56 breaks
Gold Coast (7)
Burleigh Heads
Gold Coast
The Gold Coast's most beloved and photogenic point break, a bowling, powerful right-hander that wraps around a volcanic headland…
Currumbin Alley
Gold Coast
A fun, gentle right-hand sandbank at the mouth of Currumbin Creek, one of the Gold Coast's most accessible and forgiving…
Duranbah
Gold Coast
The reliable, punchy beach break just south of the Queensland–New South Wales border, where Gold Coast surfers sharpen their…
Kirra
Gold Coast
The legendary end section of the Gold Coast Superbank, when the sandbars align, Kirra delivers blinding, tube-speed barrels that…
Palm Beach
Gold Coast
A long, open beach break on the Gold Coast multiple peaks and more space than the main breaks further south, a friendly option…
Snapper Rocks
Gold Coast
The northern anchor of the Gold Coast Superbank, a powerful right-hand point break that starts the legendary sand conveyor belt…
Superbank
Gold Coast
One of surfing's great sandbar phenomena, a human-made sand conveyor belt linking Snapper Rocks to Kirra, capable of producing…
New South Wales (6)
Bondi Beach
New South Wales
Australia's most iconic stretch of sand, a crescent-shaped Sydney beach break consistent waves, a vibrant surf culture, and one…
Cronulla
New South Wales
Sydney's southernmost surf suburb and home to a quality right-hand point that fires on solid SE–south swells, one of the city's…
Dee Why
New South Wales
A dependable Sydney Northern Beaches combo, a beach break with an adjacent right-hand point that gives intermediate surfers…
Garie Beach
New South Wales
A remote, wild beach break inside Royal National Park south of Sydney, powerful, uncrowded, and raw, rewarding surfers willing…
Manly Beach
New South Wales
Sydney's northern beach break institution, a wide, sandy beach at the end of the iconic ferry route, beginner-to-intermediate…
Narrabeen
New South Wales
One of Sydney's premier beach breaks and arguably the city's most productive surfing nursery, a long stretch of shifting peaks…
Northern Territory (3)
Casuarina Beach Darwin
Northern Territory
In Australia's tropical Top End, Darwin's Casuarina Beach is the Northern Territory capital's surf hub, where seasonal swells…
Lee Point
Northern Territory
North of Casuarina Beach, Lee Point is Darwin's most exposed surf location, a rocky headland where northwest swells arrive with…
Mindil Beach
Northern Territory
Famous across Australia for its spectacular sunset markets, Darwin's Mindil Beach sits in the sheltered harbour and delivers…
Queensland (3)
First Point Noosa
Queensland
The innermost and most accessible of Noosa's famous points, a long, slow right-hand wave in the national park that is a…
Noosa
Queensland
Australia's most laid-back surf destination, a series of right-hand point breaks inside a stunning national park, long, mellow…
Sunshine Beach
Queensland
A wide, open beach break just south of Noosa that picks up more swell than the sheltered points, a more dynamic option for…
South Australia (2)
Cactus Beach
South Australia
One of Australia's most remote and storied surf destinations, three right-hand waves on the edge of the Nullarbor, requiring a…
Grockel
South Australia
The smaller, more sheltered right-hand point adjacent to Cactus Beach, a more accessible introduction to the area's quality…
Tasmania (8)
Bicheno
Tasmania
On Tasmania's east coast, Bicheno is a charming fishing village where the Tasman Sea delivers consistent reef and beach breaks…
Clifton Beach Tasmania
Tasmania
Just south of Hobart, Clifton Beach is the Tasmanian capital's most accessible surf beach, a beautiful crescent bay where…
Cloudy Bay
Tasmania
On Bruny Island off Tasmania's southeast coast, Cloudy Bay is one of the most dramatic and remote surf beaches in southern…
Eaglehawk Neck
Tasmania
On Tasmania's Tasman Peninsula, Eaglehawk Neck is a narrow isthmus (once guarded by dogs to prevent convict escapes) flanked by…
Marrawah
Tasmania
On Tasmania's remote northwest coast, Marrawah is one of Australia's last true surf frontiers, an exposed headland and beach…
Seven Mile Beach TAS
Tasmania
Near Hobart on the Derwent estuary's eastern shore, Seven Mile Beach is a long, exposed stretch of sand that catches southeast…
Shipstern Bluff
Tasmania
On Tasmania's remote Tasman Peninsula, Shipstern Bluff is Australia's most terrifying big-wave slab, a ledge wave of…
St Helens Tasmania
Tasmania
In northeast Tasmania at the entrance to Georges Bay, St Helens is the region's largest town and gateway to quality Tasman Sea…
Victoria (5)
Barwon Heads
Victoria
A sheltered, beginner-friendly beach break at the mouth of the Barwon River, a gentle, protected wave where south coast surfers…
Bells Beach
Victoria
Australian surfing's spiritual home, a powerful right-hand reef break on the Great Ocean Road that has hosted the world's…
Jan Juc
Victoria
A mellow, fun reef break a short walk from Bells Beach gentler but still quality waves for intermediate surfers who find the…
Johanna
Victoria
A wild, isolated beach break on the most remote section of the Great Ocean Road, one of Victoria's most powerful and atmospheric…
Winki Pop
Victoria
Bells Beach's faster, more hollow neighbour, a punchy right-hand reef break sharing the same swell window but a sharper, more…
Western Australia (22)
Albany Middleton
Western Australia
On WA's Great Southern coast, Albany's Middleton Beach sits in a protected bay where the Southern Ocean delivers consistent…
Bremer Bay
Western Australia
On WA's south coast east of Albany, Bremer Bay sits above a deep underwater canyon that concentrates the Southern Ocean's power,…
Broome
Western Australia
In the Kimberley region of WA's far northwest, Broome is a pearling town of extraordinary character where Cable Beach stretches…
Canal Rocks
Western Australia
At the southern end of Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park north of Yallingup, Canal Rocks is a dramatic granite formation where…
Cowaramup Bay
Western Australia
South of Gracetown in the heart of the Margaret River surf region, Cowaramup Bay (Cow Bombie) is famous for a deep-water slab…
Exmouth
Western Australia
At the tip of the North West Cape on WA's Coral Coast, Exmouth sits beside Ningaloo Reef, the world's largest fringing reef,…
Geraldton
Western Australia
Western Australia's "Sun City" on the midwest coast is the region's largest city and has a consistent surf scene where Indian…
Gnaraloo
Western Australia
At the tip of the Ningaloo peninsula north of Carnarvon, Gnaraloo is one of Western Australia's most legendary surf stations, a…
Gracetown
Western Australia
The gateway to North Point, one of Australia's most iconic right-hand point breaks, Gracetown is a small Cape-to-Cape coastal…
Injidup
Western Australia
In Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park south of Yallingup, Injidup is a powerful left-hand reef that breaks over granite in a…
Kalbarri
Western Australia
On WA's mid-west coast, Kalbarri sits at the mouth of the Murchison River where dramatic red gorges meet the Indian Ocean, the…
Lancelin
Western Australia
North of Perth on WA's Turquoise Coast, Lancelin is famous for its massive white sand dunes and world-class windsurfing, but the…
Margaret River
Western Australia
Western Australia's premier surf destination and one of the world's great reef breaks, a massive, powerful right and left that…
North Point
Western Australia
A powerful, right-hand limestone reef break in the Margaret River region, intense, hollow, and demanding, with the raw…
Prevelly
Western Australia
In the heart of the Margaret River surf region, Prevelly village sits above the Margaret River mouth where the river meets the…
Salmon Holes Esperance
Western Australia
Near Esperance on WA's wild south coast, Salmon Holes is a powerful surf spot where the Great Australian Bight delivers massive…
Smiths Beach WA
Western Australia
One of the Margaret River region's most beautiful beaches, Smiths Beach near Yallingup delivers consistent, powerful beach break…
Steep Point
Western Australia
The westernmost point of the Australian mainland, Steep Point in the Shark Bay World Heritage Area is one of the most remote…
Surfers Point
Western Australia
Margaret River's most accessible break, a beach and point combo at the famous Surfers Point car park, intermediate-friendly…
The Box
Western Australia
Margaret River's most feared wave, a thick, heaving left-hand slab that detonates over a near-dry limestone reef in an explosion…
Three Bears
Western Australia
Three right-hand reef breaks, Baby Bear, Mama Bear, and Papa Bear, stacked along the limestone coast near Yallingup, each…
Yallingup
Western Australia
A beloved right-hand reef break in the Margaret River region a more accessible, but still powerful, alternative, with long…