Bouznika Plage Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here, with a look at the surf prospects at Bouznika Plage.

To be straight up with you, the 16-day window ahead is a tough stretch for wave riding at this spot. Most of the period is surfable in name only – the quality just isn’t there for a proper paddle session. We start with a blank run of several days, and through the whole outlook, there’s only one real standout where conditions line up for a decent surf.

The best chance you’ll get comes on the morning of Sunday the 6th of September. That morning we’ll see a clean 5 ft NW groundswell, with a very long period of 10 seconds, pushing in glassy conditions with barely a breath of wind. The swell energy will be moderate at 469, and the wave comment suggests good surf conditions. The swell direction is matching the optimum from the NW, and with that glassy morning, it’s by far the best on offer. It’ll be one to circle on the calendar, though being a long-range call it’s promising but not locked in.

Outside of that, the rest of the forecast is pretty ordinary. The water temperature is sitting at 74°, which is about average for this time of year. The first recommendation doesn’t appear until Sunday the 6th, so there’s a solid gap from the start with no decent surf. Before that, we see a bump in swell around Friday the 28th of August into Saturday the 29th, with wave heights around 5 ft to 6 ft from the NW, but the wind is a mess – cross and cross-onshore at 16 mph, making it choppy. The swell periods are short (8 seconds) and the energy is moderate to strong (304 up to 837), but it’s just not clean enough for a good session.

There’s another small window that pops up on the morning of Thursday the 3rd, with glassy wind and a 4 ft NW swell, but the wave comment describes it as “very ordinary conditions.” The same goes for Saturday the 5th morning – glassy again with a 4 ft swell, but still ordinary. The Tuesday the 9th morning sees another pulse of 5 ft NW swell, but winds turn onshore and it stays poor.

Because this is a sheltered reef and point setup, the poor quality and strong onshore winds through many of the afternoons mean it’s more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing on those days. The crowd profile at Bouznika Plage says it gets crowded sometimes, so if you do hit that Sunday the 6th morning window, expect company.

That’s the outlook. Not much to write home about, but that one Sunday morning could be a gem.

Rusty

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