Ride the Atlantic. Return to yourself.
Surf & Ocean
Five to eight days on Morocco's Atlantic coast. Surf sessions at dawn, ocean breathwork, salt on your skin, and the rhythm of the tide as your only clock. Taghazout, where surfers and seekers have come for decades.
The experience
Surf & Ocean
Designed for surfers of all levels and anyone who feels most alive in the ocean. Daily surf sessions guided by local coaches who know every break from Anchor Point to Killer Point. Morning ocean breathwork. Afternoon mobility and recovery on the beach. Evening gatherings on the rooftop with the sound of the Atlantic below. Paired with longevity protocols: cold ocean immersion, salt therapy, fascial work, and nutrition designed for performance and recovery.
Duration
8 days, 7 nights
Group size
8–14 guests
Format
Co-branded with partner studio
What to expect
Surf & Ocean · 8 days
Daily surf sessions (all levels, boards provided). Ocean breathwork and cold water immersion. Beach mobility and recovery. Surf technique workshops. Rooftop yoga at sunset. Local Moroccan cuisine. All equipment and coaching included.
How a surf week is built
The tide sets the timetable, and everything else is arranged around it.
01
The surf window, not the clock
Sessions move with the tide and the swell, which means a six o'clock start some days and a ten o'clock one on others. The schedule is published the evening before, every evening.
02
Two hours in the water, properly coached
Small groups by level with a local coach per group, video review when it helps. Beach breaks for people learning, point breaks for people who can already paddle into them.
03
Afternoon on land
Mobility for shoulders and hips, breath work for hold-downs, and a long lunch. Surfing twice a day for a week is how people go home with an injury.
04
Sunset on the roof
Slow yoga as the wind drops, then dinner. The point is not the photograph; it is the thoracic spine after six days of paddling.
Where to surf, and when
Morocco's Atlantic runs for two and a half thousand kilometres. These three sections cover most of what a group needs.
Taghazout and Tamraght
Right-hand points, from Anchor Point down to the beginner beaches twenty minutes away. The season runs September to April, when the north-west swell arrives and the water sits around eighteen degrees.
Essaouira
Wind city, which makes it the kitesurf and windsurf answer rather than the longboard one. Reliable from March to June and again in September and October, with a UNESCO medina to walk when the sea is unworkable.
Dakhla
A flat-water lagoon on one side and open ocean on the other, wind almost every day, and enough space that a group never shares a launch. It is the far south: four hours' flying from Casablanca, and worth it for kitesurf weeks.
Surfing in Morocco, answered
- Can a complete beginner come?
- Yes. Groups split by level and beginners surf the sand-bottom beaches, not the points. Boards and wetsuits are provided; you bring a swimsuit and a willingness to be bad at something for three days.
- When is the swell best?
- September to April for Taghazout and the points around it. March to June and September to November for the wind on the Essaouira and Dakhla side. Summer is small and warm, which suits beginners and nobody else.
- Is the water cold?
- Between seventeen and twenty degrees most of the year. A 3/2 wetsuit covers it, and we provide them. The air in winter mornings is colder than the sea, which surprises people.
- Can a surf school bring its own group?
- Yes, and it is the format the coastal weeks were built for. The school keeps the coaching and the client relationship; Umnya carries accommodation, transfers, food, the recovery programme and the ground operation.
From the journal
7 min
A Six-Night Itinerary Between Salt and Stars in Morocco
Day-by-day reading of Salt & Stars: four nights Atlantic surf at Tamraght, three nights under the Sahara sky, 23-30 November 2026.
5 min
Surf and Desert Retreat in Morocco: From Atlantic Swell to Saharan Silence
Combining Tamraght surf with Saharan silence is the rarest itinerary in Morocco. Why a single eight-day arc from the Atlantic to the dunes produces a physical and nervous-system reset that no single-landscape retreat can match.
5 min
Tamraght: The Calmer Sister of Taghazout
Five kilometres south of Taghazout sits a smaller fishing village with the same Atlantic swell and a quarter of the crowds. Tamraght is where serious surfers and retreat guests go when they want the waves without the noise, and it is the village Salt & Stars chose for its Atlantic week.
4 min
Why Surfers Live Longer: Ocean, Salt, and the Longevity of Taghazout
Cold water immersion, constant movement, salt air, and sunrise rituals. The surfers of Taghazout have been practising longevity without knowing it.
4 min
Breathwork Between the Waves: An Ocean Protocol
The Atlantic teaches you to breathe. Between sets, between waves, between worlds. A breathwork protocol born from Morocco's surf coast.
7 min
Tamraght or Taghazout? Choosing the Right Atlantic Surf Base in Morocco
Both villages share the same Atlantic swell. The choice between them shapes everything from your morning walk to the wave you actually ride.
Before the dates exist
Tell us when. We will tell you where.
We open a small number of weeks each season. Choose the window you have in mind and what you come for, and you will hear about those dates before they are published.
Which window?
What you come for