The honest answer is yes, with ordinary precautions. The risks people worry about are rarely the ones that materialise.
What actually goes wrong
By an enormous margin: sunburn and reef cuts. After that, stomach upsets, twisted ankles on rocks, and lost phones. Serious incidents are rare, and almost everything that ruins a trip is preventable with sun cream, footwear and bottled water.
In the water
Rip currents are the genuine hazard on beach breaks. They appear as darker channels with less foam. If caught, do not fight it — paddle across it, parallel to the beach, until the pull releases you, then come in.
The other real risk is loose surfboards in a crowded lineup. Hold yours.
On the road
Moroccan roads are generally good and drivers on the coast road are fine. Mountain passes are winding rather than dangerous, though they are hard on anyone prone to motion sickness. Use seatbelts, take tablets before you set off rather than after you feel unwell, and sit in the front.
Health
No vaccinations are required beyond routine ones for most travellers, though hepatitis A and typhoid are commonly recommended — ask a travel clinic. Drink bottled or filtered water. Pharmacies are widespread and well stocked, and pharmacists are genuinely helpful for minor problems.
Scams and hassle
Mostly minor and mostly in cities: unofficial guides, inflated taxi fares, and being steered towards a particular shop. Agree fares before getting in, decline politely and firmly, and remember that walking away is normal rather than rude.
Insurance
Get it, and check that surfing is covered — some policies exclude it as an adventure sport. Check quad biking separately if you plan to ride in the dunes, and confirm medical repatriation cover if your trip includes a remote inland leg.
Rip currents, explained properly
A rip is water returning to sea after waves have pushed it onto the beach. It flows out through the lowest resistance path, usually a deeper channel between sandbars, and it can move faster than you can swim.
You spot one by looking for a gap in the breaking waves, a channel of darker water, or a streak of foam and sand moving seaward. Somewhere waves are not breaking is usually somewhere water is going out.
If you are caught: do not paddle against it. Stay on your board — it floats and it is your best safety equipment — and paddle across the current, parallel to the beach, until the pull stops, then come in on the breaking waves. Rips are narrow. Thirty seconds of lateral paddling usually clears them.
And use them deliberately once you know what you are doing. Experienced surfers ride rips out to the lineup because it saves energy.
Health, water and stomachs
Drink bottled or filtered water and you will almost certainly be fine. The most common cause of an upset stomach on a surf trip is not restaurant food, it is the combination of unfamiliar diet, heat, dehydration and swallowing sea water.
Carry rehydration sachets. They weigh nothing, and they turn a lost day into a lost afternoon. Pharmacies here are excellent, widely available and staffed by pharmacists who speak French and often English, and they can dispense a great deal without a prescription.
Ear infections are the surfer-specific problem. Repeated cold water immersion causes them, and a few drops of an alcohol-and-vinegar solution after sessions prevents most cases.
Women travelling alone, in practical detail
Street attention in Agadir and Marrakech is real, mostly verbal, and mostly evaporates on a firm and unsmiling "la shukran" followed by continuing to walk. It is significantly less common in the villages, and essentially absent within a camp.
Dressing modestly away from the beach reduces it noticeably. That is not a moral instruction, it is a practical observation reported consistently by women who have travelled here.
Use registered taxis rather than unmarked cars in cities, agree fares in advance, and sit in the back. At night, taxi rather than walk in cities; in Taghazout and Tamraght, walking home from dinner is unremarkable.
What insurance should actually cover
Surfing specifically, since some policies exclude it as an adventure sport. Quad biking separately if you plan to ride at Timlalin or in the dunes. Medical repatriation, which matters far more on an inland trip than on the coast, because the nearest major hospital to Merzouga is a long way away.
Also check baggage cover if you are bringing a board, and cancellation cover if you are booking non-refundable flights months ahead for a peak week.
Surfing-specific injuries and how to avoid them
Board contact is the most common. Your own board causes more injuries than anybody else's. Cover your head as you surface after a fall, and never dive head-first off a board in shallow water.
Reef and rock cuts. Clean immediately with fresh water and antiseptic, keep them dry, and take them seriously — cuts in tropical and subtropical water infect faster than people expect. If a cut is warm, swollen or increasingly painful after a day, see a pharmacist.
Surfer's ear develops over years of cold water and is not a concern for a one-week trip, but ear infections are. Dry your ears after every session and use drops if you are prone.
Shoulder and neck strain from paddling. Stretch, rest, and do not surf through pain that is sharp rather than dull.
Emergencies, and what to do
Emergency numbers in Morocco are 19 for police in cities, 177 for the gendarmerie in rural areas and 15 for ambulance and fire. Your camp will call for you and will do it faster and more effectively than you can.
Agadir has private clinics with good standards and public hospitals that are more variable. For anything serious, private care and an insurance claim afterwards is the sensible route, and clinics generally expect payment or an insurer guarantee up front.
Inland, medical facilities thin out quickly. This is the practical reason to check that your insurance covers repatriation if your trip includes a desert leg.
Keep your insurer's emergency number saved offline, not only in an email you would need signal to open.
Perspective, because the question deserves it
Morocco receives many millions of visitors a year and the surf coast north of Agadir has hosted travellers continuously since the 1960s. Violent crime against tourists is rare. The realistic risks on a surf trip here are sunburn, a stomach upset, a twisted ankle and a cut foot, in roughly that order.
The things that make trips go wrong are almost all preventable: not booking a transfer, not buying insurance that covers surfing, ignoring a guide who says a jump is unsafe, and paddling out at a break beyond your level because it looked good from the road.
Take ordinary precautions, listen to people who live here, and the honest answer to the question in the title is yes.
The honest summary
Morocco is a safe destination for a surf trip, and the realistic risks are mundane: sunburn, an upset stomach, a cut foot, a twisted ankle on wet rock, and rip currents if you swim or surf without paying attention.
The things that actually go wrong are almost all preventable with four decisions. Book a transfer rather than arriving with no plan. Buy insurance that explicitly covers surfing. Listen to guides and instructors, especially when they say no. And do not paddle out at a break beyond your level because it looked manageable from the road.
Take ordinary travel precautions in cities, dress modestly away from the beach, agree taxi fares in advance, and drink bottled water. None of this is specific to Morocco; it is the same list you would use in most of the world.
Millions of people visit each year and this coast has hosted surfers continuously since the 1960s. Come, use sun cream, and enjoy it.