Bamburgh Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's on offer for Bamburgh over the next couple of weeks.

First off, I gotta be straight with you – the outlook is a bit of a bummer. We're looking at a long stretch of tiny, weak waves and a whole lot of nothing. The water’s sitting around average for this time of year, so nothing unusual there. The biggest issue is that for the first week, from Friday the 24th of July right through to Thursday the 30th, the swell is just pathetic. We’re talking ankle-snappers at best, with combined energy barely hitting double digits (15), and a lot of those readings are in single figures. It’s poor surf, plain and simple. The wind does offer some clean windows, especially Sunday the 26th morning with a light offshore, and a moment of pure glass on Wednesday the 29th afternoon, but with only 0.7 ft on offer, it’s a lake, not a surf.

Now, things do try to pick up a little. On Friday the 31st of July, we finally see a pulse of energy. The swell bumps up to 3 ft from the ESE, but with a short, crumbly period of 5-6 seconds, these are gonna be soft, weak waves. The combined energy is still weak (54-86). The wind is clean offshore from the WSW that afternoon, so it’ll be rideable, but don't expect any power. It’s surfable, but very ordinary. Saturday the 1st of August is a similar story, with a fresh offshore wind but the swell drops back down.

Look, after that, it’s back to the same old story. The combined energy does climb into the three-digit range on the 3rd and 4th of August (135 and 124), which is moderate, but the swell height is still a meek 2 ft and the period is short. We’ve got a bit of a longer period groundswell on the 3rd (11 seconds), but with such a tiny swell and a clean cross-off wind, it’s a tease more than anything. The biggest looking day is Thursday the 6th of August morning, with a NE swell of 4 ft and a period of 8 seconds, giving a combined energy of 186 (moderate). But it’s still a clean, cross-off breeze, and the height is just about enough for a fun, small-wave session on a longboard.

To be honest, there’s no standout session here. The best on offer is probably that Friday the 31st of July afternoon, with the offshore wind and the 4 ft ESE swell, or the Thursday the 6th of August morning with the 4 ft NE swell. But even those are just "okay" at best. For a beginner, the 4 ft is right on the limit of being too big, but with the short period, it’ll be soft. It’s a long wait for not much reward.

Rusty out.

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