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Pas-de-Calais 2023-04-09
Calais. Photo: Guillaume Baviere from Stockholm, Sweden, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons

Calais

Surf town · France

Score a trip to Calais

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

Beds: 37 places

37 places to stay within 2 km, 3 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 37 places to stay · Booking.com

Spots near here: 13 surf spots

Surf · this week

  • Oye plage (escardines) · about 25 min by car · stays in Oye-Plage

    26 out of 100
  • Dunkerque · about 1h 10m by car · stays in Dunkerque

    23 out of 100
  • Sangatte · about 15 min by car · stays in Sangatte

    22 out of 100
  • Cap Blanc Nez · about 20 min by car · stays in Escalles

    20 out of 100
  • Audreselles · about 45 min by car · stays in Audresselles

    18 out of 100
  • Hardelot plage · about 1h 15m by car · stays in Neufchâtel-Hardelot

    17 out of 100
  • Wimereux plage · about 50 min by car · stays in Wimereux

    17 out of 100
  • Wimereux reef · about 50 min by car · stays in Wimereux

    17 out of 100
All 13 surf spots
  • Cap Griz Nez · about 40 min by car · stays in Audinghen

    16 out of 100
  • Pointe aux Oies · about 45 min by car · stays in Wimereux

    16 out of 100
  • Tardinghen · about 35 min by car · stays in Tardinghen

    16 out of 100
  • Wissant · about 30 min by car · stays in Wissant

    15 out of 100
  • Calais · about 5 min by car · Not for intermediates

    –, no score

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 Calais.

Places to eat

6 near Calais

Places to eat near Calais

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 50 km from Calais.

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Photos of Calais

Auguste Rodin-Les Bourgeois de Calais-Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
Photo: Yair Haklai, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Les Bourgeois de Calais en 2013 01
Photo: Lionel Allorge, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Les Bourgeois de Calais July 2012
Photo: Nilfanion, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

About Calais

where it is, what is near

Calais is a town in Pas-de-Calais, France.

From Calais you can reach 13 surf spots.

The nearest is Calais, a surf spot 0.2 km from the centre.

Overture lists 37 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 3 of them campsites.

The nearest airport is Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST), 76 km away.

In Pas-de-Calais · Hauts-de-France · France

  • 37 places to stay within 2 km of the centre, 3 of them campsites (Overture places)
  • Nearest airports: Ostend-Bruges International Airport (OST), 76 km, Lille Airport (LIL), 98 km, London Southend Airport (SEN), 106 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).