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Surf events in Europe

Contests, big-wave events, festivals, surf films and shaper meet-ups: what's coming up on the coasts of Europe and Morocco, plus an archive of what already happened.

This is where we gather Europe's most important surf events: WSL Championship Tour and Qualifying Series stops, European and national championships, big-wave events with a waiting period, music and surf festivals, surf film festivals, trade fairs and shaper meet-ups. Each event links to its source and, when it is surfed at a wave on our map, to that spot's guide.

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Big waves Big Wave Alliance · paddle-in Waiting period open

La Vaca Gigante

🇪🇸 La Cantera, Cueto (Santander) · Spain

Waiting period:

Cantabria's giant-wave contest, paddle-in only with no jet skis, below the La Cantera cliffs in Cueto. It is called 48 h ahead when waves top 6 metres and is part of the Big Wave Alliance.

No fixed date: it runs on a single day within this period, when the right swell arrives. Follow the event's website or social media for the final call.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Big waves Waiting period open

Punta Galea Challenge

🇪🇸 Punta Galea, Getxo · Spain

Waiting period:

The Basque Country's big-wave contest, on the Punta Galea reef. It runs on a single day when a swell of around 6 metres arrives, called a few days in advance.

No fixed date: it runs on a single day within this period, when the right swell arrives. Follow the event's website or social media for the final call.

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Upcoming events

Surf film

Scheveningen Surf Film Fest

🇳🇱 De Regentes, The Hague · Netherlands

I Love the Seaside's fourth surf film night in a former swimming pool in The Hague: wave-surfing films with long breaks to eat, listen to music and meet local artists, makers and filmmakers.

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Big waves WSL · tow-in

Nazaré Big Wave Challenge

🇵🇹 Praia do Norte, Nazaré · Portugal

Waiting period:

Tow-in contest (surfers towed by jet ski) in the giant waves of Praia do Norte. It lasts one day: yellow alert up to 72 h before, green light 24 h ahead.

No fixed date: it runs on a single day within this period, when the right swell arrives. Follow the event's website or social media for the final call.

Spot: Nazaré (Praia do Norte) →Source ↗
Surf film

London Surf / Film Festival

🇬🇧 Riverside Studios, London · United Kingdom

15th edition of London's surf film festival, presented by Finisterre: three nights of premieres, shorts and talks at Riverside Studios.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Contest Liga MEO Surf (Portugal)

Bom Petisco Peniche Pro (Liga MEO Surf)

🇵🇹 Peniche · Portugal

Final stop of the 2026 Liga MEO Surf, where Portugal's national champions are decided.

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Trade fair

boot Düsseldorf (Surf World, pabellón 12)

🇩🇪 Messe Düsseldorf · Germany

Europe's big boat and watersports fair turns Hall 12 into a boardsports hub: a 65 m pool, skimboarding, foiling, talks and indoor contests.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Surf film

Hamburg Surf Film Festival

🇩🇪 Hamburg (venue to be announced) · Germany

Two days of international surf films in Hamburg, with shorts and features on surfing, windsurfing, kiting and other wave sports, awards (including Best Female Film), workshops and talks.

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Festival

Boardmasters

🇬🇧 Newquay, Cornwall · United Kingdom

Music and surf festival at Watergate Bay and Fistral. The 2027 dates are announced; the surf contest is confirmed later.

Official website ↗Source ↗

Map of upcoming events

Watching the events from the shore

Almost every big-wave event and many contests are watched from a cliff or the beach, far from the peak.

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Past events

This season's archive, latest first.

Festival Finished

Board Culture Exposure

🇫🇷 Casino, Colisée and Espace Bellevue, Biarritz · France

Third edition of the surf, skate and snowboard photography festival: exhibitions (including a Sem Rubio retrospective and Ben Thouard's Aqua Obscura), screenings, workshops, awards and an OFF gallery trail.

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Contest National championship (France) Finished

Championnats de France de Surf

🇫🇷 Hossegor · Seignosse · Capbreton · France

French championships for every category, spread across the beaches of Hossegor, Seignosse and Capbreton depending on conditions.

Official website ↗Spot: La Gravière →Source ↗
Contest WSL Championship Tour Finished

MEO Rip Curl Pro Portugal

🇵🇹 Supertubos, Peniche · Portugal

The only European stop of the world tour (Championship Tour): the world's best surfers in the Supertubos barrels.

Spot: Supertubos →Source ↗
Contest WSL QS 2.000 Finished

Edommo Surf Pro Razo

🇪🇸 Praia de Razo, Carballo · Spain

European QS event on Galicia's Costa da Morte, at one of the region's most consistent beaches.

🏆 Winners: Yago Domínguez and Ariane Ochoa.

Spot: Razo →Source ↗
Contest WSL Challenger Series Finished

EDP Ericeira Pro

🇵🇹 Ribeira d'Ilhas, Ericeira · Portugal

The only European stop of the 2026 Challenger Series, the tour that qualifies surfers for the Championship Tour.

Spot: Ribeira d'Ilhas →Source ↗
Meet-up Finished

European Wooden Surfboard Meet

🇬🇧 Lost Shore Surf Resort, Edinburgh · United Kingdom

European meet-up for wooden surfboard makers and fans: wooden-boards-only wave-pool sessions, workshops, talks and an exhibition.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Surf film Finished

Save The Waves Film Festival (Londres)

🇬🇧 Finisterre, London · United Kingdom

London stop of Save The Waves' global film tour, focused on protecting waves and coastlines.

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Contest ESF · European junior championship Finished

Eurosurf Junior

🇮🇪 Bundoran, Donegal · Ireland

European junior championship for national teams, held in Ireland for the first time.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Festival Finished

Saltwater Festival

🇮🇪 Bundoran (Donegal) · Ireland

Music, surf and art festival in Bundoran on Ireland's Atlantic edge, built around an international surf contest at The Peak, with film, art, wellness and local food.

Spot: The Peak →Source ↗
Contest ESF Finished

European Rapid Surf Championships

🇨🇭 OANA, Ebikon (Lucerne) · Switzerland

The first European championship of rapid surfing (standing-wave surfing), run by the European Surfing Federation.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Festival Finished

Festival Escuela Cántabra de Surf

🇪🇸 Somo beach, Ribamontán al Mar (Cantabria) · Spain

Somo's surf, skate and music festival: the 28th Surf Open of the Spanish league, Spanish adaptive surfing and surfskate championships, a skate contest and free gigs over several days.

Official website ↗Spot: Somo →Source ↗
Festival Finished

Gliding Barnacles

🇵🇹 Praia do Cabedelo, Figueira da Foz · Portugal

13th edition of the festival that treats surfing as art and community: surfers, artists and creatives from around the world, art residencies, installations, music and surf sessions at Cabedelo.

Spot: Cabedelo →Source ↗
Festival Finished

Quiksilver Festival

🇫🇷 Hossegor, Seignosse and Capbreton (Landes) · France

A week of invitation-only surfing with 24 surfers hand-picked by Jérémy Florès at the breaks of Hossegor, Seignosse and Capbreton, plus a skate contest, surf films, gigs and DJs. Free.

Spot: La Gravière →Source ↗
Trade fair Finished

EuroSIMA Surf Summit

🇫🇷 Belambra Les Estagnots, Seignosse (Landes) · France

25th edition of the annual congress of Europe's surf and action-sports industry: talks on markets, brands and sustainability, plus the Surfing Lounge showing new materials and products.

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Surf film Finished

Skate & Surf Film Festival (SSFF)

🇮🇹 Milan · Vicopisano · Trieste · Italy

Touring festival of independent surf and skate films. Tenth edition: it opened in Milan and closed in Trieste with the awards.

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Surf film Finished

Saltwater Surf Movie Night

🇩🇪 Tour of Germany (Hamburg, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Cologne, Munich, Kiel and Freiburg) · Germany

Open-air surf film festival touring Germany over the summer: nine screenings in seven cities, at outdoor cinemas and at the Berlin and Düsseldorf wave pools.

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Contest WSL QS 6.000 Finished

Norte Surf Fest

🇵🇹 Leça da Palmeira, Matosinhos · Portugal

New World Surf League stop in northern Portugal, next to Porto. A QS 6,000 that also counted towards the Challenger Series.

Spot: Leça da Palmeira →Source ↗
Contest WSL QS 6.000 Finished

ABANCA Pantín Classic Galicia Pro

🇪🇸 Pantín beach, Valdoviño · Spain

Galicia's classic contest, nearly forty editions old, became a QS 6,000 in 2026 and also counted towards the Challenger Series ranking.

Official website ↗Spot: Pantín →Source ↗
Surf film Finished

International Surf Film Festival d'Anglet

🇫🇷 Chambre d'Amour, Anglet · France

22nd edition of Anglet's long-running surf film festival, with open-air night screenings by the sea at the Chambre d'Amour and daytime sessions at the Espace de l'Océan.

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Festival WSL QS 2.000 Finished

Boardmasters (festival + Boardmasters Pro)

🇬🇧 Newquay, Cornwall · United Kingdom

The UK's big music and surf festival. It includes the Boardmasters Pro, a European QS event at Fistral.

Official website ↗Spot: Fistral →Source ↗
Festival Finished

Surf, Music & Friends

🇪🇸 Salinas beach, Castrillón (Asturias) · Spain

12th edition of the surf, sport, music and leisure festival for all ages that fills Salinas beach in early August.

Spot: Salinas / San Juan →Source ↗
Surf film Finished

Portuguese Surf Film Festival

🇵🇹 Casa de Cultura Jaime Lobo e Silva, Ericeira · Portugal

15th edition of Portugal's surf film festival: 15 days of films and Q&As in Ericeira, the Ocean Art exhibition and free screenings at Praia dos Pescadores, Ribeira d'Ilhas and Mafra.

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Festival ETL · Spanish Longboard Championship Finished

Salinas Longboard International Festival

🇪🇸 Salinas beach, Castrillón (Asturias) · Spain

Spain's big longboard festival: a European Tour of Longboard stop, the Spanish Longboard Championship and EuroSUP, plus gigs, a market, food trucks, workshops and exhibitions on the beach.

Official website ↗Spot: Salinas / San Juan →Source ↗
Contest WSL QS 2.000 Finished

Caraïbos Lacanau Pro

🇫🇷 Lacanau-Océan · France

One of Europe's longest-running contests (45th edition). It opened the 2026/27 European Qualifying Series season.

Spot: Lacanau Océan →Source ↗
Surf film Finished

Canarias Surf Film Festival · La Laguna

🇪🇸 Former Convent of Santo Domingo, La Laguna (Tenerife) · Spain

First 2026 stop of the Canary Islands' touring surf film festival, now in its 14th edition: films, photo and surfboard exhibitions, a Sea Market, talks, surfskate workshops and live music.

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Festival Finished

Wheels and Waves

🇫🇷 Cité de l'Océan and Milady beach, Biarritz · France

15th edition of the festival that blends custom motorbikes, surfing, skating, music and art: surf sessions at Milady, skate contests, screenings, gigs and exhibitions at the Cité de l'Océan.

Official website ↗Source ↗
Contest Liga MEO Surf (Portugal) Finished

Allianz Ericeira Pro (Liga MEO Surf)

🇵🇹 Ericeira · Portugal

Third stop of the Liga MEO Surf, Portugal's top national surfing league, in the Ericeira World Surfing Reserve.

Spot: Ribeira d'Ilhas →Source ↗
Festival Finished

Hotdogger Surf Festival

🇫🇷 Plateau du Phare, Biarritz · France

Vintage surf festival by the Biarritz lighthouse: a longboard contest in old-school wetsuits and classic boards where style wins, a recycled-gear market, repair workshops and surf-rock gigs.

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Surf film Finished

Brest Surf Film Festival

🇫🇷 Océanopolis, Brest · France

Ninth edition of Brittany's surf film festival: surf and ocean-culture films screened at Océanopolis.

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Contest WSL QS 4.000 Finished

Caparica Surf Fest

🇵🇹 Costa da Caparica, Almada · Portugal

European Qualifying Series stop on the beaches of Costa da Caparica, just south of Lisbon.

Spot: Costa da Caparica →Source ↗
Contest WSL QS 4.000 Finished

Pro Taghazout Bay

🇲🇦 Anchor Point, Taghazout · Morocco

Final stop of the 2025/26 European Qualifying Series, at the Anchor Point right-hander. The European QS titles were decided here.

🏆 European QS champions: Janire González-Etxabarri and Adur Amatriain.

Spot: Anchor Point →Source ↗

Calendar updated on 25 October 2026. Dates can change: always check the event's official website.

Organising a surf event in Europe, or is one missing? Suggest it with the form or email us at [email protected].