Surfers at Praia do Norte, Nazaré, Portugal, are no strangers to big waves ... by Guinness. Wave measuring is not an exact science (yet). The wave size is studied in video footage, where each pixel is ...

When winter in Portugal rolls around, all eyes turn to Nazaré. Portugual has many waves, but Nazaré has a certain something that all those other waves don't.

With the competition window now open for the 2025 TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge, discover what makes this form of surfing so compelling and find out where the world's biggest waves can be found.

The current WSL Big Wave season runs from November 1, 2024, until March 31, 2025, with the famed Praia do Norte in Nazaré, Portugal, the location for the TUDOR Nazaré Big Wave Challenge.

Over the past decade and change, the realm of big wave surfing has seen a gravitational shift towards Europe and, particularly, Nazaré, Portugal. It’s now ground zero for the world’s largest ...

Gabeira, originally hailing from Rio De Janeiro, began surfing big waves at 17 when she visited Hawaii for the first time. In 2013, she suffered a horrendous wipeout at Nazare that nearly cost her ...

Former surf champion Brazilian Lucas Chumbo, was in Nazare at the time, and towed Mr Formston to the highest waves. "Lucas Chumbo is one of the all time legends of big wave surfing, so it was a ...

Ben Larg, from Tiree, was first taken out on a surf board when he was a toddler A teenager from Tiree is preparing for the latest big wave surf season at Nazaré Ben Larg has carved out a career ...

An curved arrow pointing right. Nazaré, Portugal, can get waves as high as 100 feet, and is only for the world's bravest surfers. However, Jason Polakow just became the first person to windsurf ...

Nuno Santos played "Jingle Bells" while surfing in Nazaré, Portugal. He did it for his 10-year-old project "A Violin In The Most Unlikely Places." He has previously played the violin on mountains ...