Aldinga Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here.

Honestly, looking at this next stretch for Aldinga Beach, it’s a pretty bleak picture for quite a while. We’re staring down the barrel of a long, flat spell to kick things off. For the first week, there’s simply nothing doing. Day after day we’re looking at tiny, wind-chopped dribble that’s not worth paddling out for. It’s going to be a test of patience, that’s for sure.

That flatness hangs around for about eight days, with barely a ripple. You’ll see a couple of stray pulses early on, but nothing with any push. The 29th of August shows a sudden jump in the swell – we’re talking a solid 6ft, but it’s coming from the WNW with a short, weak 6-second period. The energy is reading at 254, which is moderate, but the quality is just poor. It’s going to be a lumpy, cross-onshore mess, so I wouldn’t get too excited. The wind swings offshore from the ESE, so it will be clean, but the swell is too wind-swell-like to offer any real shape. This one is more for the kite crew than us paddle surfers.

Finally, towards the end of the period, around the 30th of August, we get a little life. It’s still small, but it becomes surfable. Sunday morning sees 4ft of west swell, and by the afternoon it drops slightly to 4ft, but the wind goes glassy. That’s the standout moment in this whole window – the conditions will be clean and smooth. The period is still short at 5-6 seconds, and Aldinga is inconsistent at the best of times, so it won't be epic, but it'll be something. That glassy morning and afternoon looks like the pick of a pretty average bunch.

The energy stays moderate as we head into September 1st, with 4-5ft of west swell and a glassy morning again. It’s still very ordinary, but clean and surfable. This patch is the best we get, but it’s not lighting the world on fire.

The water temp is running normal for this time of year at 57°, which is about right. But the biggest takeaway is that this is a long, drawn-out flat spell. When it’s this quiet for this long, it never tends to stay that way forever, and a change is always around the corner. Keep the board ready, but don’t rush down just yet.

The real glimmer, if you can call it that, is that Sunday the 30th and Monday the 1st offer the only genuine windows of clean, surfable (if small) waves. After that, it looks like it starts to get messy again with a fresh cross-onshore breeze on the 3rd of September.

Keep an eye on the long-range, as that sharper WNW pulse on the 29th could be a sign of things to come, even if it’s not great itself right now.

Rusty.

Read more