Port Hardy, Canada

All 3 surf towns in Canada

Photo: Shana Van Roosbroek / Unsplash

Surf, 4/3–5/4+ water by season, quiet nomad scene.

surf-townlaid-back

Data updated 22 September 2026

At a glance

Peak season—below our season threshold

Suits—no month clears our bar

Boardbothbreak type not yet verified

Water7.5–14.9°C4/3–5/4+ most of the year

Internet—no town-level measurement

Cost / mo$2,300+all-in, estimated

Where you'll surf — and work, eat, train

1 spot within 25 km · 1 with own season data

spot in season nowout of seasonno dot — no per-spot season data

Hazards

Spot details

Cove0 km

3 cafés · 1 gymPowered by Google — ratings and maps are live from Google Maps. SurfBase doesn't edit or rank the reviews.

All places (4)

Cafés3 listed

Cafe Guido & Co. Ltd.View on Google
Market Street CafeView on Google
Kwa'lilas Hotelserves coffee — not a dedicated caféView on Google

Gyms1 listed

Evolve FitnessView on Google

The surf year

Below our season threshold

Surfable days by month · intermediateNo reliably surfable season in our model

0peak · Jan

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec

Swell

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Wind ok

61%73%78%83%85%88%85%85%87%79%74%71%

Water

8°8°8°8°10°12°14°15°13°11°10°9°

Barsless surfablemore

Water5/4+ hoodedunder 13°4/3 wetsuit13–16°

How we compute this

Computed from hourly ERA5 / ERA5-Ocean reanalysis (2015–2024): swell reaching this coast × wind quality × size for the chosen level, over daylight hours. Sea temperature 2023–2025.model v3 · computed 2026-09-22 · no forecast — a historical climatologyFull methodology

Surfable days by level, month by month

Share of surfable days per month, per level — percent
Level	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Beginner	1%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	1%	1%
Intermediate	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%
Advanced	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%

Working from here

no known coworking · from $1,320 a month · leans quiet

Internet speedmedian download · Ookla—

Coworking spacesknown in OpenStreetMap0

Quiet ↔ Party28 / 100

Rent rangework-ready studio, monthly · USD$1,320–$2,520

Month all-inrent + living, modeled · USD≈ $2,300–$3,840

Estimated — modeled, not sourced

Find a place to stay

Monthly-stay searches for Port Hardy.

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Getting there

Nearest airportPort Hardy Airport

CodeYZT

Distance10 km

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Sources & confidence

AI-seeded · not yet human-checkedSee the full methodology for how every figure is computed.Town references: osm · openwateratlas · wikidata · open-meteo · osm-coworking · ourairports · google-places · open-meteo-skill · osm-poi · wb-price-level

Updated 2026-09-22Suggest a correction