The report · Shelly Bay · Kite · November · 6 pages
Hamilton Parish, Bermuda
Shelly Bay
70% of November days clear 12 kt for three daylight hours or more.
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. L.F. Wade International, Bermuda has been checked against the model at 12 kn only, so the 13 kn Windsurf figure is counted but not checked against it.
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, November
Share of daylight hours in each speed band, blue above the threshold.
Not drawn: 4% of daylight hours under 4 kt.
When in the day, November
Share of days over 12 kt at each daylight hour. The wind comes with passing weather, not by the clock.
Rideable hours, not all hours. Every wind figure in this report is the mean over hours above the threshold.
November's own records
The month's own figures from nine Novembers 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
The local spot guide notes smooth kickers at low tide and little room near the trees at high tide. Hours per state unknown until tide data arrives.
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.
Shallows, swimmers & winter fronts
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 cove stays shallow even at high tide, and low tide creates smooth kickers. At high tide the beach is narrow by the trees and self-launching is hard. Debris and kelp sometimes lie on the sand. Check the depth before you ride fast on a fin or a foil.
A buoy line has marked a safe swimming zone at Shelly Bay Beach over the Cup Match holiday, and vessel operators are advised not to cross it. North Shore Road runs just behind the beach, so keep kites away from it. Winter fronts often bring gales or strong winds, and the Atlantic hurricane season runs from 1 June to 30 November.
Getting there, packing & best months
Derived from the winter wind, not from a fitted quiver: the Bermuda Weather Service airport means of 13 to 15 kt, December to March, and the record's 17 to 19 kt mean over rideable daylight hours, November to March, calibrated against a 2.5 km model and checked against the L.F. Wade station. Fronts blow harder than the mean: size down on those days.
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 5.3 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 Shelly Bay
An open-licence photograph of Shelly Bay: the page shows Google Maps photos. Tide tables. Surveyed launch coordinates. Whether the buoy line is laid year round or only in summer. What the park notices at Shelly Bay say about vessels and sport. Any rescue cover on the water. Windsurf and wing thresholds run through the hourly record. 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, 29 Sep 2026. Station data: Bermuda Weather Service, L.F. Wade International (TXKF) observations January 2017 to September 2026, via the Iowa Environmental Mesonet ASOS/METAR archive, Iowa State University. Derived figures, not the observations. Licence: Bermuda Weather Service terms: free to redistribute with the source acknowledged; IEM archive in the public domain. Hero photograph on the spot page by Cansu Joy Burgess, Google Maps. 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.