Score the best waves at your local surf spot with personalized forecasts

Living in The Netherlands, the North Sea is our home. Perhaps you know what surf is like here. There is little consistency with usually just a few two or three hour surf-windows per week. If you don't plan right, it could lead to some very disappointing trips to the beach. This made us go deep on forecasting. We wanted to make sure that when there are waves, we are riding them.

We started to keep track of our sessions, attempting to compare them. Our thinking was that by tracking the conditions of our sessions, and by comparing them to the upcoming forecast, we would learn to understand when it is the best time to go. We probably all try to do this in our heads. But what are we missing?

Computer algorithms are much better at comparing historical data than us surfers. That's why we built Surfnerd to save our sessions and wrote an algorithm that predicts when it's the best time to surf, based on how we rated our previous surf sessions in similar conditions.

Surfnerd is here. With this beautiful project we want to help other surfers get the best waves at their local surf spot. Be it in Denmark, Italy, Taiwan, China, Alaska, Florida, California or any other spot at which our planet produces this beautiful phenomenon we call waves.

In the way we analyze our oceans, seas and lakes, the way we enjoy this activity not as a sport but as a lifestyle, the way we cover ourselves in dust to build our own boards and the way we travel the world to surf the waves of our dreams, there's one thing that's for sure: We're all nerds.

We hope Surfnerd helps you catch the waves you're looking for. We love to hear your thoughts. Email us at hi@surfnerd.app.

Joris & Sander