📜Rules
- ✗Natura 2000: kiting only inside the official kite zones; elsewhere on the IJsselmeer it is banned. pas.commissiemer.nl
- ✗No windsurfing (likely also wing) in the Amsterdam-Lemmer shipping route or the lock harbours of the Afsluitdijk at Kornwerderzand. wetten.overheid.nl
- ✓Hindeloopen: kite zone all year, out beyond the row of wooden posts. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Kornwerderzand: kite zone May-September only, inside the yellow buoys; never into nature area De Noordwaard. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Makkum: kite zone October-April only, at the north-west tip of the beach; not across the Makkum-Kornwerderzand fairway. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Medemblik: kiting April-September in the yellow-buoyed zone; banned 1 Oct-31 Mar. Kiting at nearby Andijk is banned. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Mirns: kite zone all year inside the yellow buoys; never into the Mokkebank bird reserve west of it. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Stavoren: kiting all year, launch only outside the swim zone; May-November swim buoys with red/white posts. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- ✓Workum: stay inside the yellow buoys, no kites in the swim zone, keep 60 m from shore. kitesurfvereniging.nl
- iRijkswaterstaat is still deciding if wingfoiling counts as kiting or windsurfing under shipping and Natura 2000 rules. Kitefoiling only where kiting is allowed. pas.commissiemer.nl
- iWorkum: during the beach sand works keep 100 m from pipes and works, on land and water; no jumping over pipes or the pier. kitesurfvereniging.nl
💨Wind
Forecasts from several weather models (e.g. ICON, AROME, HARMONIE) and live measuring stations nearby are in the app.
💡Good to know
- Long wide beach, shallow far out; sandbanks; kite school traffic; water level 20-30 cm lower in late autumn
🧭Getting there
📍 Position on the water: 52.9657, 5.4099 · directions
🅿️ Car parks
- P1Car park250 m to entry Aroute