Arguineguin Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright crew, Rusty here. It’s looking like a slow stretch coming up at our local spot. We gotta sit through a bunch of tiny, near-flat days before any real juice shows up. Keep the patience up, ‘cause there’s a little window that’s worth marking on the calendar.

The water’s sitting right around 72°, which is pretty normal for this time of year, so no weird temperature surprises.

Right now and for the next few days, it’s real weak. The combined swell energy is stuck in the low double digits (34), with wave heights barely reaching 0.7ft. That’s a long-period groundswell from the SSW (18 seconds), but with no push behind it, it’s useless. We get some glassy windows Tuesday afternoon and Wednesday, but the waves are just too small to bother with. Honestly, leave the board at home.

This pattern of tiny swells with energy in the 30-70 range keeps up until Friday the 10th. We see “surfable but very ordinary” conditions by Friday morning, but we’re still only looking at 1ft waves. The energy climbs a bit (71), but it’s still not enough to get the heart pumping.

The first real sign of life hits Saturday the 11th. The combined swell energy jumps to 222, and the wave height lifts to 1ft early. That’s still small, but the conditions will be perfect. Saturday morning at Arguineguin looks glassy, with that same SSW swell running a long 19-second period. The wind is dead calm, so it’ll be flat as a pond. This is our first standout, but you’ll want a longboard or a big fish. The energy is moderate, and those 1ft waves aren’t going to throw any barrels, but you won’t be staring at a mirror.

Sunday the 12th morning brings another little bump. The combined energy hits 246, with 2ft of SSW swell at 18 seconds. It’s glassy again first thing. This is the other real highlight of the outlook. The water will be buttery, and the sets will be long and clean. It’s still a small-wave day, but if you’ve got a log, this weekend is the time to paddle out. The swell direction lines up with what the spot likes best. Just remember, this break is inconsistent, so you might have to sit and wait for the good ones.

Come Monday the 13th, we slide back into that “ordinary” zone. The swell holds at 2ft with moderate energy (173), and the winds stay clean or light offshore, but the magic of that glass-off is gone. It’s just a run of average, knee-high days. By Wednesday the 15th, the energy drops back into the 30s, and we’re right back to poor surf.

Into the second week, it gets even smaller. Around the 16th and 17th, the energy is barely in the double digits, and the swell direction gets messy. There’s a spike in period on the 17th (20 seconds), but the height is only 0.7ft, so it’s a ghost swell.

So here’s the takeaway: the first week is mostly flat, the weekend of the 11th and 12th is your best bet for the cleanest, most rideable small waves, and then it fades back to nothing. Don’t expect much beyond that.

Rusty.

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