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Santa Maria. Photo: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

Santa Maria

Surf, kitesurf, windsurf, sailing and dive town · Cabo Verde

Score a trip to Santa Maria

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

Beds: 56 places

56 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 56 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 13 places in 5 sports

Surf · this week

  • Palmeira - ilha do sal · about 35 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Ponta Preta · about 5 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score
  • Santa Maria · about 5 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score

Kitesurf · this week

Windsurf · this week

Sailing · this week

Dive · this week

  • Palmeiro 1 · 19.9 km · stays here

    80 out of 100
  • Palmeiro 4 · 20.7 km · stays here

    80 out of 100
  • Ancora · 1.8 km · stays here

    78 out of 100
  • Santo Antao · 1.4 km · stays here

    78 out of 100
  • 3 caves · 2.1 km · stays here

    77 out of 100
  • Algodoeiro · 4.1 km · stays here

    77 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 Santa Maria.

Places to eat

6 near Santa Maria

Places to eat near Santa Maria

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 Santa Maria.

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Photos of Santa Maria

20240102 102539 beach Praia António Sousa in Santa Maria, Sal, Cabo Verde
Photo: Tbo47, CC0, Wikimedia Commons
Sea point, Santa Maria, Sal Island, Cabo Verde
Photo: r_dfawn, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
Capo verde isola di sal - panoramio - brunobarbato (2)
Photo: brunobarbato, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Santa Maria

where it is, what is near

Santa Maria is a town in Sal, Cabo Verde.

From Santa Maria you can reach 3 surf spots, 2 kitesurf spots, 1 windsurf spot, 1 sailing spot and 6 dive sites.

The nearest is Santa Maria, a surf spot 0.1 km from the centre.

Overture lists 56 places to stay within 2 km of the centre.

The nearest airport is Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID), 17 km away.

In Sal · Ilhas de Barlavento · Cabo Verde

  • 56 places to stay within 2 km of the centre (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Amílcar Cabral International Airport (SID), 17 km, Aristides Pereira International Airport (BVC), 51 km, Preguiça Airport (SNE), 147 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).