Anglet - Marinella Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it.

The opening stretch is pretty average, folks. We’ve got some swell, but it’s messy and chopped up. We’re not seeing any real magic until things start to clean up for a window around the middle of next week. The good news is that there’s a real standout day in there, but you’ll have to be patient and pick your moments.

The first proper highlight looks set for Thursday the 17th. We’ve got a clean 5.6ft of new WNW groundswell pushing through, and with nearly no wind and glassy conditions, it’s going to be as good as it gets for a while. The energy reading is a solid 663, which is a good step up from the junk we’re dealing with now. The period is a nice and punchy 11 seconds, so it should have a bit of push to it. This is your best bet for the next few days, so if you can, make a dawn patrol happen.

After that, the surf drops off again for a few days. It’s not terrible, but it’s definitely not inspiring. Then we’ve got that standout I was talking about. On Saturday the 19th, the swell is really up – we’re looking at a solid 6.9ft from the NW with a long 13-second period. That’s a lot of energy, 1514 to be exact. But, and this is a big but, it’s going to be too big and powerful for this break to handle properly by itself. It’s going to be a real freight train out there.

The real standout, the one that has me a little more than amped, is the window from Sunday the 20th into Tuesday the 22nd. We see the swell drop back to a more manageable size, and the conditions just fall into place. Sunday morning the 20th is glassy with a clean 4.6ft of NW swell. Monday the 21st holds similar, with a slightly bigger 5.2ft in the morning and light offshore winds. And then Tuesday the 22nd looks even better. We’re getting a clean 4.3ft with the same clean, glassy conditions in the morning. These are your days. This is when you want to be out there. It’s going to be clean, it’s going to be a lot of fun on the banks.

Now, about the water temp. On that first standout day, the water is sitting at a very warm 72.5°F, which is a good 4°F above normal for this time of year. That’s noticeably warm and means you can probably get away with just a thin wetsuit, maybe just a springy.

After that Tuesday, though, it's all downhill. The swell fades fast through the rest of the week. By Wednesday the 23rd and Thursday the 24th we’re down to dribbly leftovers, and the next few days are just small and onshore. The energy just bleeds out of the ocean entirely. By Sunday the 27th and Monday the 28th, we’re looking at knee-high dribble. There is a small blip of glassy conditions with a 3.6ft NW swell on Friday the 25th, but it’s a far cry from the quality of the weekend before, and honestly the wind and tide need to play their part. But it’s not going to be a patch on the 20th-22nd. So overall, the next 16 days are a real mixed bag. The big, powerful, and clean period is the 20th to the 22nd. Everything else you really have to pick and choose your windows.

That’s the long and short of it. I’ll see you out there.

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