Surf Breaks in France
12 breaks mapped across 3 regions. Conditions, tips, and crew at every spot.
Showing 12 breaks
Basque Country (5)
Biarritz
Basque Country
The birthplace of European surfing, a stylish Basque resort town where the sport arrived from California in the 1950s, now home…
Côte des Basques
Basque Country
Where modern European surfing was born, the south-facing, cliff-backed Biarritz beach where Californian Peter Viertel rode the…
Guéthary
Basque Country
A legendary right-hand reef break on the French Basque Coast, a long, powerful, open-ocean wave breaking over a deep reef in…
La Grande Plage
Basque Country
Biarritz's central beach, a wide, sandy bay in front of the Grand Casino gentle, rolling waves and a quintessentially elegant…
Parlementia
Basque Country
The biggest and most fearsome reef break on the French Basque Coast, a massive, deep-water right-hander near Guethary that…
Landes (6)
Capbreton
Landes
The southern anchor of the Hossegor surf zone, a beach break and harbour town where a deep-water submarine canyon (the Gouf de…
Hossegor
Landes
The beach-break capital of Europe, a flat, low-lying stretch of Les Landes coast backed by pine forests where powerful, hollow…
La Gravière
Landes
The deadliest and most celebrated peak within Hossegor, a thick, pitching beach-break barrel that detonates over an extremely…
La Nord
Landes
Hossegor's northernmost premium beach-break peak, where the full force of Atlantic groundswells hits first, creating powerful,…
Les Culs Nus
Landes
One of Hossegor's most consistent and exposed beach-break peaks, powerful, hollow waves over shifting sandbars in the naturist…
Seignosse
Landes
A long stretch of beach break north of Hossegor producing excellent hollow peaks when Atlantic swells arrive, quality waves in a…