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Wharf Street Forster (circa 2003) - panoramio
Forster. Photo: Rob Freijs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Forster

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf town · Australia

Score a trip to Forster

Surf, kitesurf and windsurf, 6 nights from tomorrow, from your nearest start point: scored, planned and costed. Try another search

Beds: 58 places

58 places to stay within 2 km, 7 of them campsites.

Prices are our estimate of the country's average double room of each kind that month: not this town's price, and not a quote.

Room photos are examples, not these hotels (credits).

All 58 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 16 places in 3 sports

Surf · this week

  • Diamond beach · about 35 min by car · stays in Diamond Beach

    25 out of 100
  • Black Head point · about 25 min by car · stays in Black Head

    24 out of 100
  • Saltwater Point · about 35 min by car · stays in Diamond Beach

    24 out of 100
  • Boomerang Beach · about 35 min by car · stays in Boomerang Beach

    19 out of 100
  • Elim · about 20 min by car

    19 out of 100
  • Tuncurry Breakwall · about 5 min by car · stays in Tuncurry

    18 out of 100
  • Tuncurry main beach · about 5 min by car · stays in Tuncurry

    18 out of 100
  • Blueys Beach · about 35 min by car · stays in Blueys Beach

    17 out of 100
All 14 surf spots

Kitesurf · this week

  • Forster · 0.7 km · stays here

    0 out of 100

Windsurf · this week

  • Forster · 0.7 km · stays here

    6 out of 100

Each score is the next week's out of 100, the mean of its best days, as on its own page. Green clears the bar. Distances are from the middle of Forster.

Places to eat

6 near Forster

Places to eat near Forster

Within 2 km of the town centre, listed by how complete the listing is (website, opening hours, cuisine) and whether two sources name it. Not a judgement of the food: we have no reviews. Listings © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Overture Maps Foundation. Credits

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for intermediates: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 20 km from Forster.

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Photos of Forster

Belton Park foreshore Forster, NSW, 2023, 04
Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Forster Bullring - panoramio
Photo: Rob Freijs, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Forster-Tuncurry Bridge, New South Wales, 2023, 01
Photo: Kgbo, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Forster

where it is, what is near

Forster is a town in New South Wales, Australia.

From Forster you can reach 14 surf spots, 1 kitesurf spot and 1 windsurf spot.

The nearest is Pebbly, a surf spot 0.6 km from the centre.

Overture lists 58 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 7 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is Port Macquarie Airport (PQQ), 89 km away.

In New South Wales · Australia

  • 58 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 7 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Port Macquarie Airport (PQQ), 89 km, Newcastle Airport (NTL), 93 km, Armidale Airport (ARM), 203 km

Forecast updated . Forecast data: ECMWF, DWD, Météo-France and NOAA, served by Open-Meteo.com (CC BY 4.0). Changed by us. Generated using E.U. Copernicus Marine Service Information.

Scores are the conditions only: the journey, the price and the partners never change them (how we score, how we earn).