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A rocky cove of clear blue water on the Sumba coast at dusk
Stand-in: Pantai Mandorak, Sumba. Zahrasrtn, CC BY-SA 4.0

Dispatch № 011, 15 September 2026

Nihi Sumba

The wave that takes fifteen a day.

Nihi Sumba's door is a private strip in Sumba's southwest; the reef out front is stricter. Occy's Left takes fifteen surfers a day, guests included.
Door to door
26 h 27
As searched from London
Searched for
20 October
Tuesday 20 October 2026
Fare as found
€25,974
Sampled on 15 September 2026; €16,793 of it the jet, an estimate from the house rate; a four-seat Cessna charters for about a quarter of that
The last leg
Car
1 h 47

Sumba is an island east of Bali, and the break in front of the resort is why most people come: the cap holds whoever you are.

The line we searched: Cathay Pacific to Hong Kong, on to Denpasar by the afternoon. No business cabin flies beyond Bali, so a chartered Global 5000 covers the hop to Tambolaka, and a car the last hour and three-quarters.

Twenty-six hours and twenty-seven minutes, door to gate.

The place

Nihi Sumba is on the southwest coast of Sumba, an island east of Bali, above a beach with its own surf break, Occy's Left.

Tambolaka, on Sumba, has flights from Bali; the hotel is about an hour and a half from the airport by road.

When to go

  1. January: out of season
  2. February: out of season
  3. March: out of season
  4. April: in season
  5. May: in season
  6. June: in season
  7. July: in season
  8. August: in season
  9. September: in season
  10. October: in season
  11. November: out of season
  12. December: out of season

Dry season, April to October

Make it yours

Start from your own city: the composer opens with Nihi Sumba as the destination and the last leg as a private jet, priced from the aircraft's hourly rate. Nothing runs until you press Find routes.
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