Brazil, the Caribbean and beyond
Northeast Brazil is the headline act: Cumbuco, Preá, Jericoacoara, Ilha do Guajiru and the endless downwind coast run on relentless, warm side-shore trades from roughly July to January. The Caribbean — the Dominican Republic's Cabarete, Aruba, Los Roques and the Yucatán's Tulum and El Cuyo in Mexico — delivers flatwater and trade wind through the European winter and spring. In North America, the Outer Banks (Cape Hatteras), the Columbia River Gorge, San Francisco Bay, South Padre Island and Baja California cover flatwater, wave and thermal wind. Further south, Peru's Paracas and Chile round out the Pacific options.