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· updated 10 hours agoTuesday peaks at 1-2m ESE swell at 8-11 seconds with wind-driven conditions under moderate NNE wind, easing to glassy NE wind by evening. Wednesday holds steady at 1-2m S/ENE swell at 10-11 seconds with glassy NNE wind fading to moderate S wind. Thursday builds to 1-2m S/ENE swell at 7-10 seconds with wind chop under strong S wind, dropping to glassy SSE wind by evening. Friday holds at 1-2m SSE swell at 8-12 seconds with glassy NNE wind building to moderate. Saturday builds to 1-2m ENE/S swell at 6-11 seconds with wind chop under moderate NNE wind, increasing to strong N wind by evening. Sunday holds at 1.5-1.6m ENE swell at 8 seconds with strong NNE wind easing to moderate S wind
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About Florianópolis
Florianópolis is the capital of Santa Catarina and Brazil’s southern surf hub, an island city fringed by east-coast beach breaks open to the South Atlantic. Joaquina, the open beach with the dune at its north end, is the spiritual home of Brazilian surfing. Praia Mole, a few kilometres north, is the hollow crescent tucked between two headlands. Barra da Lagoa, just past Mole, is the school-zone strip.
The working window is April through September, when cold fronts off the roaring forties push south to south-east swell onto the east coast. The east beaches need 0.8 to 3 m at 9 s or longer. Northwest is offshore; north is clean. South wind shuts the coast down. The classic day is a south-east swell with north or north-west wind behind a passing front. July is the statistical peak.
Water runs 17 to 20 °C in August, 24 to 28 °C by March. A 3/2 covers winter, boardies and a rashie the rest. Joaquina and Praia Mole both want intermediate ability on size; hollow takeoffs and rip currents that build through a long-period swell. Crowds thin on weekdays, packed on weekends. Canto do Gravatá, the south corner of Mole, wakes up on heavy southerlies and runs as a local peak. On a soft or onshore day, the south-end beaches (Matadeiro, Pântano do Sul) wrap cleaner.