Ano Nuevo Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve got to be straight with you—this stretch is a bit of a tough watch for the next couple of weeks. We’re looking at a long, long gap before anything even gets close to worthwhile, so patience is the name of the game.

Ano Nuevo is a sheltered beach and reef setup, and this forecast is pretty grim for a good while. The water temp is sitting at 60°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year.

Saturday the 25th and Sunday the 26th? Forget it. We’ve got a long-period groundswell coming from the SSW with a period of 21 seconds bringing swell around 3 ft to 3 ft, but the wind is a moderate to fresh cross-shore from the NW. It’s creating a lumpy cross-chop, and the forecast is calling it poor surf conditions. The combined swell energy is moderate at best (898 on Saturday morning, dropping off). Not worth paddling out.

Monday the 27th through to Wednesday the 29th stays pretty average. Swell ticks up a fraction to 4 ft, but it’s still that long-period SSW groundswell, period dropping from 18 to 16 seconds. Cross-shore wind from the NW, 12 to 19 mph. The combined energy bumps into three-digit territory (1051 and 1382 at times), but it’s lumpy and messy. A few mornings are marked as “marginal,” but they’re not offerings for a confident surf. The long period will make it break straight and fat at a beachy setup like this.

Thursday the 30th brings a change—a short-period NW pulse at 6 ft with only 8 seconds. That’s more of a windswell, and the direction doesn’t match what Ano Nuevo likes (it favours SW). Wind is still cross-shore, so it’s a messy, bumpy 6 ft with two-digit combined energy. Honestly, that setup looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddling—it’ll be choppy and blown out.

From Friday the 31st all the way through to Sunday the 9th of August, it’s a bleak run. Swell drops off to a tiny 1.0 ft to 2 ft with weak combined energy in the hundreds (126 to 390). Most of it is from the SSW or SW, with occasional onshore wind from the WSW or SW at 6 mph. We get a brief bump of 6 ft on Sunday the 2nd of August from the WNW with 9-second period, but it’s cross-on, light wind—marginal at best, and it falls fast.

Monday the 3rd of August has a 5 ft WNW swell, 10 seconds, with light cross-on wind. The energy is fading (505 Monday morning), and the forecast still calls it poor. Never a true standout here.

Best on offer? There isn’t one. The only small glimmer is maybe the morning of Saturday the 1st of August—4 ft from the S, 13 seconds, with a light cross-on breeze from the WNW at 6 mph. It’s marked as marginal, and combined energy is 807, so it’s moderate. But with the wind cross-on, it’s not clean. Nothing worth chasing.

So that’s it. A whole 16-day window with no proper session in the cards for Ano Nuevo.

Rusty.

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