Beaches in Angola

Sixteen hundred kilometres of Atlantic coast, cooled along its southern half by the Benguela Current and turning tropical toward the Congo. Almost none of it is developed for visitors: the country has been open to independent tourism only since a visa reform in 2018, and the infrastructure outside Luanda is thin. What that leaves is a surf coast south of the capital with long left-hand point breaks and almost nobody on them, and a fishing economy that uses the beaches as working ground. The dry season, May to October, is the settled period. Practically: Luanda is regularly ranked among the most expensive cities in the world for foreign residents, which is a fact about the oil economy rather than about the beaches. Outside the capital, fuel, roads and accommodation all need planning. The surf coast south of Luanda has the country's beach economy such as it is, and the Benguela Current makes the water progressively colder the further south you go.