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Spot de Cooking Lake | Bayshore

Cooking Lake | Bayshore kitesurf spot

Canada · Alberta

53.43 | -113.03

Overview

Bayshore is a spot on Cooking Lake, southeast of Edmonton, at 735 m altitude. The lake is part of the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Natural Area. Modest but accessible water body (30 min from Edmonton). NW and SE prairie winds work well. Season from June to September.

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Cooking Lake | Bayshore: when to go?

Rideable days and hours computed for a minimum wind of 7 knots · log in to set your own (foil, twin-tip…)

The season runs from April to August, peaking in June: 17 rideable days a month and 188 hours of usable wind, at 17 °C. The low point is March, at 8.5 days.

Rideable days per month

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Wind strength when it is rideable

7-12 knots · 80% 13-20 knots · 20% 21-30 knots · under 1%

When the spot works, wind sits mostly between 7 and 12 knots — 80% of rideable hours. Big-kite territory. The coldest month is December, at -9 °C. The wettest month is June, with 78 mm. Bar height is the month's rideable days; the split shows how its wind hours break down by strength.

Monthly averages — Cooking Lake | Bayshore — averaged over 2 years of records — Weather data by Open-Meteo.com
Month Rideable days Usable wind Temperature Rain
January 13.5 91 h -8 °C 24 mm
February 9.5 71 h -8 °C 16 mm
March 8.5 80 h -2 °C 29 mm
April 15.0 125 h 9 °C 34 mm
May 16.5 170 h 15 °C 63 mm
June 18.5 188 h 18 °C 78 mm
July 15.5 127 h 22 °C 71 mm
August 17.5 139 h 22 °C 69 mm
September 13.0 96 h 20 °C 28 mm
October 15.0 96 h 10 °C 25 mm
November 8.5 54 h -1 °C 29 mm
December 10.0 74 h -9 °C 51 mm
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Technical details of Cooking Lake | Bayshore spot

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Spot opening date

Open all year round

Required level

Intermediate

On the water

Shallow fresh water. Temperature of 19-22°C in summer. Muddy bottom. Light to moderate chop. Protected natural area — respect the environment.

Hazards

Limited space. Protected area — regulations to respect. Fishing boats. Shallow bottom. Summer thunderstorms. Mosquitoes in June-July.

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