Banana Point Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here.

Well, I’ve got to be straight with you – this is one of those outlooks where you might want to take up fishing for a while. We’re looking at the Banana Point (Big Island) area for the next 16 days, and honestly, there isn’t a single session I’d paddle out for. The whole two weeks is a write-off for decent surf.

Let’s run through it. It all kicks off Monday the 10th of August with a small 3 ft NW windswell, but it’s pretty weak with a combined energy of just 69 – that’s less than a hundred, so we’re talking barely any oomph. The water’s a touch warmer than normal at 73°F, but that’s about the only highlight. By the afternoon, the wind swings onshore and it’s still poor. We roll through Tuesday and Wednesday with the same story – tiny 2 ft to 2 ft swell, short period around 7 seconds, and onshore winds most afternoons. The energy stays under 100 the whole time, so it’s just flat and messy.

Thursday morning the 13th shows a glimmer with the swell period stretching to 9 seconds and a slight SSE breeze keeping things clean, but the swell height is still only 2 ft with weak energy (93). It’s surfable in the sense you can bob around, but there’s nothing to actually ride. Friday the 14th is similar – glassy morning but still tiny. Then from Saturday the 15th onward, it’s all 2 ft to 3 ft junk, with periods all under 10 seconds. The energy occasionally climbs just into the three digits on Saturday afternoon (104) and Sunday the 23rd morning (128), but those are coupled with onshore or cross-shore winds and a wave comment that says “poor surf conditions” every single time. The biggest swell of the whole run is on Thursday the 20th afternoon – 4 ft at 6 seconds – but that’s a short-period windswell with strong onshore winds, so it’s messy junk.

Even the last few days, like Monday the 24th morning with a glassy 3 ft, still only scores a “surfable but very ordinary” tag. Tuesday the 25th morning is the closest we get to something half-decent – 4 ft NW groundswell at 8 seconds, clean offshore wind, and combined energy of 169 (moderate) – but the wave comment still says ordinary conditions, and it’s a steep point break that really needs longer period to link up properly. And then the afternoon is straight back to onshore junk.

So there’s your lot. No standouts, no best session – just a whole lot of nothing. For this area, when the consistency is only “fairly consistent” and we’ve got this many consecutive days of “poor surf conditions,” it’s just one of those stretches. You’d have more fun watching the tide come in. Keep the board waxed, forecasts can change, but right now? Don’t hold your breath.

Rusty.

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