Long Beach Kommetjie
The Cape Peninsula's most consistent beach break — Long Beach, Kommetjie, the cold-Atlantic surfer's reliable.
Trip Role
Ideal stay
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The Cape Peninsula's most consistent beach break — miles of cold Atlantic peaks at Long Beach, Kommetjie, and the cold-water surfer's reliable.
The Cape Peninsula's most consistent beach break — miles of cold Atlantic peaks at Long Beach, Kommetjie, and the cold-water surfer's reliable.
- Trip Role
- Worth a Detour
- Ideal Stay
- A session, or a base
- Time Needed
- A session
- Best For
- Cold-water surfers, Cape Town locals, intermediate surfers wanting a reliable peak.
- Skip If
- Beginners (cold and more power than Muizenberg), warm-water surfers.
- Go If
- You want the Cape Peninsula's most consistent beach break, or you're a cold-water surfer wanting a reliable Cape Town session.
- Worth Extra Drive
- 15 min
Why it's worth your time
A long, consistent beach break at Long Beach, Kommetjie — the Cape Peninsula's most reliable beach-break wave, a cold Atlantic beach that holds multiple peaks along miles of sand, and the local surfer's daily session. Long Beach is the Cape Peninsula's workhorse: cold water, consistent beach-break peaks, and the most accessed surf on the peninsula's southern reach. For Cape Town surfers it's the reliable; for cold-water travellers it's the peninsula's best beach-break session; for learners it's a step up from Muizenberg in power and cold.
What we love
The miles of consistent beach break; the cold, clean Atlantic; the multiple peaks that spread the crowd; the surfer-village setting.
What to know
Cold Atlantic — wetsuit year-round. Multiple peaks along the beach — walk to spread the crowd. Works on a south-west swell. Park at the beach. The Outer Kom reef is the expert alternative at the northern headland.
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