Angourie Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here. Right, I’ve been over the charts for the next couple of weeks, and I’ll level with ya—it’s a bit of a slow burner. We’ve got a fair bit of waiting to do, and we’re gonna have to pick our moments carefully.

The first few days are pretty ordinary, to be honest. Thursday afternoon kicks off with about 8ft of SSE swell and a cross-off breeze, but it’s messy and the tide’s all wrong. It’s not worth getting too excited about, just a marginal look. Friday stays in that same vein, with around 7-7ft of short-period SSE windswell and a cross-off wind, but it’s still not clean or well-formed enough to get the heart racing. The energy is moderate, with readings around 664 and 547, but the lack of period makes it all a bit lumpy.

Saturday and Sunday see the swell drop away. Saturday has 5-4ft of SE swell with a cross breeze, which isn’t doing us any favours, and the energy numbers are down in the low 300s. Sunday morning, however, is a tease. We get that 3ft of SSE swell with a glassy, dead-calm ocean—conditions are clean but there’s just not enough water moving. It’s tiny, and you’ll be fighting for anything worth riding. The energy’s weak, down around 248. Then Sunday afternoon, the wind swings onshore and it dies off to 3ft, so that’s that.

From Monday through most of the following week, we’re in a proper lull. Swell heights are dropping under 3ft, the wind’s mostly cross-on or onshore, and the energy readings are down in the double digits—we’re talking 52, 57, 25, 38. This is the quiet stretch, and you’d be better off polishing your board than paddling out. There’s a small blip on Wednesday the 16th with a 7-8ft SE swell showing up, but it’s short-period, cross-shore wind, and just messy, so it doesn’t offer much. The energy jumps to 606, but it’s a lot of raw, ugly power that won’t translate into good waves.

Now, if you can wait, the first real standout comes on Sunday, the 20th of September. This is the one to circle on the calendar. We get a solid 8ft of SSE swell with a cross-off breeze in the morning, and the energy is moderate at 553. The comment in the data says it plainly—“expect very good surf conditions.” This is worth getting up early for. Angourie Point (NSW) will have some push to it, and with that offshore flow it should be clean. It’s not huge, but it’s got some grunt, and for a point break, that SSE direction is workable. This is your pick of the whole outlook.

After that, things get a bit inconsistent again. Monday the 21st has some size, 6ft of SE swell, but the period is long at 11 seconds, which can make a point break like Angourie a bit too straight. There’s some energy there—856—but the morning wind is onshore and the afternoon is a fresh onshore breeze, so it’s not clean. It’s a miss. The rest of that week fades away into small, onshore slop, with a few brief pulses but nothing that’s going to have you rushing out.

There’s a final note on Friday the 25th—we get a 3ft E swell with a 11-second period and a cross-off wind, and the energy is moderate at 522. It’s clean, but it’s not big. It’s a fun, small wave prospect, but it’s more of a longboard or a grovel board session than anything with real drive.

So, to sum it up: don’t waste your energy in the first week. Let the swell do its thing, let the wind sort itself out, and hold out for that Sunday morning on the 20th. That’s going to be the best session on offer for the fortnight. Keep an eye on the forecasts, because long-range stuff can shift, but that one’s got the look of a proper, clean point wave morning.

Water temp is sitting about average for the time of year, around 69°F, so a spring suit is still a good idea.

Take it easy, and see you out there.

Rusty

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