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Panorama Hafen Mindelo Sao Vicente
Mindelo. Photo: Herbert wie, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

Mindelo

Surf, sailing and dive town · Cabo Verde

Score a trip to Mindelo

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

Beds: 48 places

48 places to stay within 2 km.

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 48 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 4 places in 3 sports

Surf · this week

Sailing · this week

Dive · this week

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 Mindelo.

Map

the town and every place near it

Each place is ringed by its best day this week, a surf spot for beginners: green good, amber fair, pale red poor, as the key says. The dashed circle is 50 km from Mindelo.

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Photos of Mindelo

Mansa Floating Hub Mindelo, Cabo Verde
Photo: Herbert wie, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Praia da Laginha, Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde, 2025
Photo: VanSky Studio, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Mindelo, São Vicente, Cape Verde
Photo: Caroline Granycome from Bishops Stortford, UK, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Mindelo

where it is, what is near

Mindelo is a town in São Vicente, Cabo Verde.

From Mindelo you can reach 2 surf spots, 1 sailing spot and 1 dive site.

The nearest is Marina Mindelo, a sailing spot 0.5 km from the centre.

Overture lists 48 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Cesaria Evora International Airport (VXE), 9 km away.

In São Vicente · Ilhas de Barlavento · Cabo Verde

  • 48 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Cesaria Evora International Airport (VXE), 9 km, Preguiça Airport (SNE), 82 km, Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID), 217 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).