Antigues Cape Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Hey folks, Rusty here. Let's be honest, looking out over the next sixteen days at Antigues Cape, it's a tough stretch. Don't get your hopes up for anything epic. The water's sitting about average for this time of year, nothing wild going on there.

We kick things off with a bit of size on Friday the 11th, bumps around 5ft to 5ft from the east, but with a short, weak 8-second period and a fresh cross-offshore breeze, it's just messy. The energy's moderate, hitting about 352 (moderate), but it's not translating into anything rideable. That theme hangs around for days. Saturday the 12th is actually offshore, clean, and the swell drops a touch to 4ft-5ft from the east-northeast, but still, the wave quality is just... poor. It’s a real grind.

Sunday the 13th through to the middle of the next week is more of the same. Waist to chest-high east swell at best, but with a period under 10 seconds and constant cross-off winds. The energy stays moderate, but these aren't waves to get excited about. The wind is too strong and onshore-angled for the waves to have any real shape to them. For beginners, the 5ft plus days might be a handful, but honestly, the quality is so poor it's hard to recommend for anyone.

We see a small window around Tuesday the 15th with the wind going offshore and the swell dropping to 3ft-4ft. It's still short-period (7 seconds) and the energy drops to 138 (weak). The comment says "surfable but very ordinary," and that's about the best we get—a single score of 1 out of 10. That's your one slightly less disappointing moment.

After that, it's a slow fade. We've got a few days with risk of thunderstorms and the swell staying in the 3ft to 5ft range, all cross-off shore and weak. By the 20th and 21st (Sunday and Monday), the swell drops below 3ft, and the energy plummets to two digits—30 and 42 (weak). It's a proper flat spell.

Then around the 22nd of September we get a bit of a pulse back, with waist-high swell and the energy climbing back into triple digits (109), but the period is still short and the cross-off wind never really lets up all the way through to the end of the run on the 26th. It's a long, drawn-out period of small, wind-affected surf. The combination of short-period, mid-range swell, and persistent cross-off wind makes this look more interesting for a kite session than a proper paddle. With a rating of "inconsistent" and "often" crowded when it does get good, this is a quiet one to leave for the locals.

Rusty.

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