Andora Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a seat. Let me walk you through what we've got locally for the next couple of weeks. I’ll be straight with you—it’s not looking like a party out here.

First off, the big picture: we are in a flat spell. There’s barely a pulse of energy coming in for days at a time, and what does show up is tiny and generally messy. The water temperature is sitting at 80°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year—over 5° warmer, actually. That’s unusual. You can feel it in the air, too.

Let’s start at Andora. This one is a beginner-friendly, fairly consistent break that’s fairly exposed to swell, with an optimum direction from the south. For Sunday the 12th, there’s some hope with a little baby swell showing—2 ft from the southeast with a period of just 5 seconds. That’s weak, short-period chop, and the combined energy is only 11, which is very weak. The morning has a light cross-offshore wind from the NNE, so the surface might look okay, but it’s just not enough to ride. By afternoon, the wind shifts to a cross-on from the ESE, making it choppy.

Monday the 13th drops off hard. We’re looking at 0.3 ft of swell with almost no energy (combined energy of 2). Tuesday the 14th is glassy in the morning, which is a tease, but with 0.3 ft and 1 energy, you’d be floating. Same story through Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There’s a few mornings with clean, cross-off conditions, but the swell is either absent or negligible.

Saturday the 18th brings a slight bump—0.3 ft from the west with a 7-second period and a combined energy of 1. Not worth paddling out for. The pattern continues into the second week with small, inconsistent pulses. On Wednesday the 22nd, we see 2 ft from the south, period of 6 seconds, and combined energy of 19. Still tiny, and the period is short.

There’s a brief moment on the morning of Thursday the 23rd with a moderate breeze from the north at 16 mph and cross-off wind, but no swell at all. Friday the 24th morning is dead flat and glassy. The best-looking window in the whole 16 days might be Monday the 27th—2 ft from the SSW, 5-second period, and combined energy of 21. That’s still weak energy, and the south direction isn’t ideal for this spot either.

Honestly, for this stretch, there are no good surf options. The waves are flat or nearly flat, the period is short, and the energy is weak. Even with clean wind, there’s just nothing to ride. This kind of blank run is more normal for the area when we’re between swells. If you’re desperate, Tuesday the 21st morning might offer a knee-high ripple with cross-off wind, but I wouldn’t hold your breath.

I’m not seeing anything that would make me swap my board for a kite, but with such small, poor-quality surf and onshore winds, if you had a kite, you’d probably have more fun than with a paddle.

Stay tuned—forecasts can change. But for now, it’s a waiting game.

Rusty.

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