St. Peter-Ording (Ordinger-Strand)
St. Peter-Ording is Germany's most iconic North Sea beach and a hugely popular kite destination, an enormous flat sandy expanse on the Eiderstedt peninsula. Ording beach is the main area: you drive over the dyke and park right on the sand, so moving gear is easy and there is effectively unlimited room to rig and launch. It works on winds from SW through NW (never the offshore easterlies), strongest in the March-June and September-November shoulder seasons when 30+ knots is possible, while summer is lighter big-gear weather. The water is tide-driven, with shallow flat-water lagoons behind sandbanks around low to mid tide and bigger waves and deep water at high tide. It is busy with schools and riders in season and shares space with swimmers. Watch the strong tidal currents, as the tide floods in fast.