The Ten Best Surfing Countries in Europe

Western Europe is a large area of land with great diversity of people, climate and topography. Along with the many navigable rivers that aided commercial activities for thousands of years, western Europe has a convoluted coastline that has made it particularly adaptable to surfing. 

This kind of coastline, open to groundswell from the North Atlantic Ocean and with favorable seasonal wind conditions, is much more likely to have surfable waves than a long and unbroken coral reef or straight sandy beach.

Surfing was relatively unknown in most of western Europe until well into the 1970’s, when a number of groups from outside the continent began to arrive with surfboards and primitive wetsuits.