The World’s Ten Best Surfing Locations

For many surfers worldwide, surfing is not a sport, it is a lifestyle. Part of the lifestyle of any committed surfer is to travel and surf a bucket list of the world’s best waves, the locations made famous on Instagram and in countless surf websites, magazines and video clips of top surfers riding perfect waves.

Surfing is a seasonal activity. Every surfing location worldwide has a season favorable to good waves and conditions and a season of bad waves and unfavorable conditions. Committed surfers study their favorite locations to learn the right conditions for the best waves. These factors include knowing the best swell, tide and wind direction so they can try to be in the right place at the right time for the best waves.

While it is possible some of the world’s best surfing waves have yet to be discovered, waves breaking in remote locations not yet having been seen or surfed by anyone, these are ten of the world’s best (known) surfing locations.