Aberaeron Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, let's have a look at what's on offer for Aberaeron. I have to be straight with you – this is a pretty grim run. We're looking at a full 16-day window with nothing that I'd call a good surf. The whole outlook is a write-off for decent waves. Things are so flat and messy that for almost the entire period, the score is a zero. It’s one of those spells where the area just goes quiet.

Friday, 28th August kicks off with a tiny `0.3ft` swell out of the SW and a period of 7 seconds. There's a moderate breeze making it choppy. Nothing doing.

Saturday, 29th August brings a little more size, `1ft` to `2ft` from the WSW, but the wind is either cross-off or cross-on. It's clean in the morning but still poor.

We have a gap with no worthwhile surf until Monday, 31st August morning. That morning sees a `4ft` swell from the WNW with a very short period of just 5 seconds. It's onshore with a fresh breeze and the energy reading is just `162` – that's weak, messy stuff. The afternoon goes backwards.

The first week of September doesn't get any better. Tuesday and Wednesday are tiny and onshore. Thursday, 3rd September bumps up a bit with a `4ft` swell from the West (period 7 seconds) and a moderate energy of `120`, but it's cross-onshore and messy with a strong breeze. Not surfable.

Friday, 4th September and Saturday, 5th September are back to tiny, onshore dribble.

Sunday, 6th September sees a `3ft` swell from the WSW (period 6 seconds, energy `43`), but it's cross-onshore again. Same story for Monday and Tuesday.

Tuesday, 8th September morning is the one moment of calm. The wind goes glassy, but the swell is a pathetic `2ft` from the NW with a period of 4 seconds. Flat, glassy, and useless.

Wednesday, 9th September is the only thing that gets my pulse up a little. The swell builds to `6ft` by morning, and `8ft` by the afternoon from the WSW, blowing straight out of the optimum SW direction. The period is only 6 to 9 seconds, but the combined energy jumps to `219` in the morning and a solid `813` in the afternoon. The wind is cross-off, so it will be clean. This is the only window that's worth a look, but even then, the score is zero. For a big-fella or someone on a step-up, this could be the best of a bad bunch. The 8ft is getting punchy but it's not crazy.

Then Thursday, 10th September falls apart with a huge `10ft` swell on a near gale, making it completely blown out and only for the hardiest experts. The rest of the window drops back to nothing.

So, to sum it up, there is no standout. If you’re desperate, the clean cross-off conditions on Wednesday, 9th September with that moderate period and decent energy might be the only reason to even drive past. But honestly, for paddle surfing, this is a write-off. A blank run like this is normal for the area when the Atlantic sets up wrong.

Rusty.

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