Today — sit it out — wave, wind and surge pounding.
Sources & confidence
Compiled by the spearo sea-state engine · How it works →
The verdict comes from seven water factors and hard safety gates — not ten tabs. Go or stay.
Our own model
Our own forecast engine — not a third-party widget. It weighs these water factors into one go-or-stay verdict for this coast; the 0–10 dial is that verdict, read out as a number.
Safety gates
It all folds into a single 0–10 score and one verdict: go or stay.
A forecast, not a guarantee — the sea has the last word.
Where to get in, where to hunt
Wind, wave and the swell windows — when to go and the best hours.
The day is picked above, in the hero. Here are that day's windows, the hour-by-hour map and the trends. Tap a window to break down the conditions.
Leave your email — and the moment a window opens at Malindi, we'll send the go / no-go verdict. Email is all we need.
What's missing? Tell us what you'd like to see — new spots, species, data or features. We read everything.
Visibility and what drives it — post-storm clearing, river plume, temperature and the thermocline.
spearo.app folds wind, wave, swell period, visibility, tides, water temperature and risk into a single verdict — go to the spot or not. It computes 7 days ahead from open marine models (Open-Meteo, IPMA), with no sign-up and no accounts. Built for solo spearfishing off the rocks, where any mistake costs dearly.
Now live: 3016 spots across 406 stretches of coast — mainland Portugal, Madeira and the Azores.
See all spotsRelief and bottom type, tides, and the depths of each spot.
The models set the window. Whether you go in is read only at the water: count the sets, watch the surge on the entry. If in doubt, you don't get in.
Scouted entries, coloured by today. The colour is the sea state at the spot, not a guarantee: the wash and a slippery entry you judge on site.
Open the seafloor mapMarine-park coral gardens, visited by snorkel boats from Casuarina Point, boat access; Sabaki river silt leaves the water far murkier after heavy rain. Inside Malindi Marine National Park — no-take, no fishing of any kind (approx. boundary). Not confirmed as a dive or hunting site — unverified.
Google MapsSOLO is the biggest risk: underwater you can black out from lack of oxygen silently and fatally, with no one around. Solo is never truly «safe». Below are the best weather windows; carry a buoy, tell someone your plan and exit time, and any doubt — don't go.
Cameras, map and reference — to hand as you come up.
Kenya: recreational fishing is limited to angling and fly fishing (Fisheries Management and Development (Recreational Fisheries) Regulations 2024, LN 127/2024, reg. 15); a 2001 speargun ban (Gazette Notice 7565) is reported. Spearfishing is not a permitted recreational method. Check with the Kenya Fisheries Service before you dive.
Malindi has rock entry points such as Malindi Marine Park coral gardens. Malindi is a historic town with an airport and Malindi Marine National Park off Casuarina Point, a fully protected area visited by snorkel boats. Below you'll find each spot (access, shelter and hazards) and today's forecast.
Kaskazi (about Nov–Mar) is best, the Lamu archipelago especially; Kusi (about Jun–Sep) is rough outside the reef.
About 25–29 °C (forecast SST supersedes).
Watamu and Malindi parks are closed to all fishing; Sabaki river silt lowers visibility around Malindi after heavy rain. Lamu: fly in to the airport on Manda Island, not by road; the UK FCDO advises against all travel to the rest of Lamu County outside Lamu and Manda islands.
Malindi: Kenya: recreational fishing is limited to angling and fly fishing (Fisheries Management and Development (Recreational Fisheries) Regulations 2024, LN 127/2024, reg. 15); a 2001 speargun ban (Gazette Notice 7565) is reported. Spearfishing is not a permitted recreational method. Check with the Kenya Fisheries Service before you dive.
