Anglet - Les Dunes Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s get straight into it for our local stretch of sand.

The next 16 days are a bit of a flat spell for the most part. We’ve got a long stretch of small, weak waves and mostly onshore or cross-onshore winds, so you’ll be waiting a while for anything decent. The first real glimmer of hope doesn’t show up until Thursday the 6th of August, and even then it’s just a whisper.

Anglet - Les Dunes (France)
The first five days are a write-off. Tiny dribbles of swell, mostly under 2ft, and poor wind conditions. Not worth paddling out for. The water temperature is sitting at 76°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year – a good 5° above average, so you’ll want a shorty or maybe just boardies.

Thursday the 6th of August, morning, we finally see a pulse. The swell bumps up to 3ft from the NW, with a period of 9 seconds. The combined energy is moderate at 107. The wind is a light cross-offshore from the NE, which will keep things clean. The score is low, but this is the only window with a whisper of surfable shape. The wave comment says “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions,” so don’t expect anything epic – just a session to get wet.

After that, Friday the 7th of August morning has a similar 3ft NW swell (104 energy), but the wind swings cross-on from the WNW, so it’ll be a bit messy. The rest of the first week and into the second week is more of the same: small, choppy, and generally poor.

The standout, if you can call it that, is Monday the 11th of August morning. The wind drops to zero – glassy calm from the N – and we get 3ft of swell from the NNW at 8 seconds. The energy is weak at 75, but the glassy conditions will make it the cleanest wave of the entire outlook. Again, not a classic, but the best of a bad bunch.

Then we hit another long gap. From Tuesday the 12th of August right through to Saturday the 15th of August, it’s back to tiny, weak swell and poor wind. The only other pulse comes on Sunday the 16th of August, with a 4ft swell from the NNW (173 energy) and a period of 7 seconds. That’s a bit of size, but the wind is onshore from the W, so it’ll be a bumpy, blown-out mess. For the average punter, that’s too big and messy to be fun.

Overall, don’t hold your breath. The best session in the whole 16 days is the glassy morning of the 11th of August. It’s not a classic, but it’s the only clean window. The rest is a waiting game.

Rusty.

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