The report · Brandon Bay · Kite · October · 6 pages
County Kerry, Ireland
Brandon Bay
68% of October days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
October sits outside the best months here. This report carries the record for October as it is, and no direction or session norm, because there is none to quote. Section 02 shows the year-by-year spread; section 06 shows which months to come instead.
Hour-by-hour & month-by-month wind
Rideable-day share by month, all three sports
Share of days with three or more daylight hours over each sport's threshold, counted from the record at 12 kt, Windsurf 13 kt and Wing 12 kt.
Blue fill scales with the share. Selected month outlined. Threshold per row: Kite 12 kt · Windsurf 13 kt · Wing 12 kt.
Where the wind sits, October
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 10% of daylight hours under 4 kt and 2% at 32 kt and over.
When in the day, October
Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
October's own records
The month's own figures from three Octobers in the record, 2022 to 2026. Not the year's average.
What the percentage hides. A month at 80% can be twenty-four steady days or three windy weeks broken by a dead front.
Full stays, schools & kit
Stays
Lessons
Kit
Price band $ to $$$ only where sourced; none shown means none held. Contact details and brands stocked join this table when the operator directory is connected.
Per-launch notes
No tide information found for Kilshannig. No tide data in the pipeline.
No tide information found for Magherabeg. No tide data in the pipeline.
No tide information found for Kilcummin. No tide data in the pipeline.
No tide information found for Fermoyle. No tide data in the pipeline.
Tide data not yet available for this spot. The record holds wind, air and waves, not tide. Until a tide source is connected, the tables above stay empty rather than estimated. What the guide says about tide is on the next page, in words.
Bye-laws, reef, gusts & cold water
Every hazard on the spot page, repeated here in full. Read this before you get wet.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Mossies is a reef with right-handers. Every beach but Magherabeg has a shorebreak; Kilcummin breaks over sandbars, and Gowlane steps up in wave size. At Fermoyle, sheltered by Brandon Head, the wind comes over the mountains and is a little gustier. Look at each beach from the shore before you launch.
Under Kerry County Council’s Beach Bye-Laws 2022, no one may windsurf, kitesurf, surf or use a stand-up paddle board in close proximity to bathers, and the council may designate areas where boards and kites are restricted or prohibited. Tuition from a beach needs a council permit obtained in advance. Motor vehicles and off-road vehicles are restricted on listed beaches without council consent. In an emergency, dial 112 or 999 and ask for the Coast Guard.
Getting there, packing & best months
October has no session mean to size from, so no sizes are given.
Best months, Kite. Record.
Sources, and their limits
Where each section of this report comes from. Record is measured. Modelled is computed by a formula because no measurement exists yet; it looks like data and is not. Written is WindChaser's editorial copy, compiled from the sources below.
The record
Hourly wind, 2022 to 2026, from Météo-France AROME France HD via Open-Meteo: a 1.5 km grid, read at the cell 0.1 km from the spot. It knows the wind over the cell, not the gust on the sand in front of you, and it knows the bearing, not the coastline: "side-onshore" is a rider's reading of the bearing. Each month is counted over three to four years.
What we could not source for Brandon Bay
Crowds by month: no count exists for Brandon Bay yet. The text of the Beach (Amendments) Bye-Laws 2026. A weather station to settle the gap between the record and ERA5. A water quality classification, and a first-hand reading of the local vibe. Tide tables. Surveyed launch coordinates for every beach but Kilshannig. A windsurf launch named beach by beach. A water temperature measured at the bay (the figures used are Surf-Forecast’s seasonal guide). Licensed guide photographs. A webcam.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 27 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by Podstawko, CC BY 4.0. Report generated 22 Oct 2026 from record version 2026.10; a report and its spot page are rendered from the same data and cannot disagree.