4kiters.com is now teaching for five years and have become one of the most popular and well known kitesurf schools in Algarve.
Working as an IKO Center and using the best kitesurf equipment, they have programs for total beginners but also for intermediate and expert riders that want to learn more and ride in the best kitesurf / kiteboard spots in Algarve.
Our kite surf courses and lessons are appropriate for both beginners and intermediates. Year round wind and great scenery make kite surfing in the Algarve really special. Our setting is the shallow warm water estuary of Alvor, a stones throw from the exciting town of Lagos. The northerly wind the ‘Nortada’ filters through the mountain range of the Serra de Monchique creating perfect year round conditions for kite boarding in the Algarve. The predominant wind in the Algarve especially between the months of May-Oct with June through to Sept being the best is the northerly wind the ‘Nortada’. The wind usually picks up through the morning until about 2o’clock when it blows it’s strongest at 25 knots. The Alvor estuary is one of the best spots to learn kite boarding in the Algarve and is one of the stops in the professional kite surfing world tour each year. The estuary itself is adjoined to the ocean and hence as well as a beautiful setting is also a safe one. With the Atlantic Ocean just the other side of the sand dunes, providing another perfect setting for kite surfing albeit with the more advanced kiters looking for an open ocean experience and from time to time some waves as well. The quality of the water is very clean and is usually between 17 & 20 degrees warm.
Algarve-Watersport
We offer top quality courses, daytrips and rentals for Surfing,Kiteboarding and Wakeboarding. If you stay somewhere at the Algarve between Lagos and Albufeira and would like to be picked up for a surf-trip to the West-Coast, catch big-air with a wakeboard in front of meia praia or would like to get into kitesurfing, the fastest growing watersport of the millennium… we are specialized in boardsport on water and we will pick you up anywhere in the Algarve, from Albufeira to Sagres.
Algarve-Watersport Camps
If surfing, kiteboarding and wakeboarding have #1 priority on your vacation, you want to stay with nice people from all over the world who love watersport in an inexpensive hostel close to the surf or kite spot… stay at one of our camps
