The report · Dahab · Kite · February · 6 pages
South Sinai, Egypt
Dahab
46% of February days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
February sits outside the best months here. This report carries the record for February 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, February
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 13% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, February
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.
February's own records
The month's own figures from ten Februaries in the record, 2017 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 tide windows
One guide says tides limit the kite lagoon to about four hours a day in summer and that the water is usually high enough in winter; that guide predates the current centre layout. Another says kiting inside the lagoon is possible at any tide. No tide data is held.
The centre describes wing foiling here as independent of tides. No tide data is held.
No guide ties these areas to the tide. No tide data is held.
The guides describe the lagoon as knee to hip deep. No tide data is held.
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.
Zones, reef & offshore wind
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.
The lagoons behind the sand spit are shallow. Reef lies beyond them, and the Napoleon Reef separates Area 2 from Area 3, where swell of up to 3 m runs outside. The reef around the Blue Lagoon has sharp rock and sea urchins, and booties are recommended there. Shoes are recommended in the kite lagoon and Area 1. Stay clear of the reef.
Harry Nass describes the wind as cross-offshore and ION Club as predominantly offshore. Inside the standing areas you can walk back. Outside the lagoon it can be difficult, even for experienced kiters, to cross back to the station when the wind drops, so Harry Nass advises kiting outside only with affiliation to its station and using its radio rescue service.
Getting there, packing & best months
February 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, 2017 to 2026, from ECMWF IFS HRES via Open-Meteo: a 9 km grid, read at the cell 1.6 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 nine to ten years.
What we could not source for Dahab
Tide tables for the lagoons. Any Egyptian law, governorate order or protected area rule on kite and windsurf zoning in Dahab or at the Blue Lagoon. Windsurf and wing thresholds run through the hourly record. Price bands for the hotels and centres. Coordinates for the launches. Where any of these is missing above, the section says so rather than filling itself.
Conditions change. Check local rules and conditions before you ride.
Compiled by WindChaser, 25 Sep 2026. Hero photograph on the spot page by gbsngrhm, CC BY-SA 2.0. 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.