On the south coast of England it’s often windy. Often it can be a 35-40mph wind and you seek shelter under cliffs, etc. where you can get good, clean, sizeable waves.
There’s also some breaks than can take a strong, cross on wind although these usually require a lot of Paddling!
Straight onshore strong winds are the only ones that produce no rideable waves for us.
Here it depends on wind direction, facing angle of beach. We’re fortunate to have an unobstructed 180 degree view of the ocean so we can see effects of wind immediately for numerous beach breaks. It’s been really windy here the last few days with winds coming straight from the south… not loving it, it creates nothing but slop and chop. It’s in the 5-10kts range. If it’s a north wind for us, it’s super clean and we can get to 15+ kts and have clean beautiful rides. Just have to get past the wind trying to blow you back off the wave 😀
Roxy Susanne Gunther Are you asking if it does (it does!) or at what speed it does?
This page shows what happens to water/ waves as the wind speed increases.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
That video I just posted about my left turns was probably about Force 4, possibly gusting to Force 5 and you can see the conditions weren't great ☹️
No when do you not surf at what wind speed is your max. Ours is 10 mph. Too much chaos.