Peru Surf Reports & Cams

Welcome to Surfline’s Peru Surf Reports and Surf Cams — the most comprehensive Peru surf reports and surf cams site on the Internet.

One of the main hubs for the South American surf scene, Peru has a long, storied relationship with surfing. Archeological records predating the Inca empire show evidence of people standing up and riding waves on craft build from reeds. The craft are known as caballito del toro and are still ridden and celebrated today. The first modern surfers in Peru first took to the waves around Lima, the country’s capital. The formation of the famous Club Waikiki drew inspiration from the early surf clubs in Hawaii. Felipe Pomar is credited as being one of the godfathers of the sport in Peru. It’s since enjoyed tremendous growth, culminating with the crowing of Peru’s Sofia Mulanovich as world champion in 2004. She was the first surfer from South America to win a world title in surfing and is a bonafide sports icon in Peru today. Thanks to some epic set-ups, like Chicama, considered the world’s longest left, there is no shortage of surf opportunity in Peru if you know where to look and when to go. And when the surf does go flat, exploring the Andres, the Inca trails and the ruins of Machu Picchu is always a great alternative. Like so many of South America’s favorite surfing areas, surfing around Peru means dialing in the country’s ever-changing coastal conditions. Swell direction, swell interval, wind speed and direction, tide, and all of the other ocean variables are important to stay up to date on as they’ll dictate what your next move around Peru is. Local knowledge and a well-informed understanding of the ocean is vital to scoring a good day at Peru. Surfline’s surf reports and surf forecasts are the ideal tool for making sure you know when to go along at Peru.

Surfline.com offers the world’s most reliable Peru surf reports with a surf report model and surf cam network that gives the surfer a precise reading on what the waves are doing at the best Peru surf spots. Each Peru surf report page features detailed Peru tide charts, surf wind data, water temperatures, dependable LOLA surf models and more — whatever it takes to describe exactly what the surf and conditions are like in Peru right now is what we provide in our surf reports. We are dedicated to giving you the best, most comprehensive and dependable Peru surf reports in the business.