Broadbeach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Righto, let’s talk about Broadbeach. The next 16 days are looking pretty ordinary, to be honest. There’s nothing firing here that’s gonna get your heart racing. The swell is tiny and the wind is all over the shop most of the time. It’s a flat spell with not much to offer a surfer looking for a proper session.

We kick off the forecast on Monday the 24th of August with practically nothing. Clear skies and a light easterly breeze, but the swell is a weak 3 ft from the ENE with a short period of 8 seconds. The combined energy is weak (93), and the conditions are just poor. The water temp is sitting around 68°, which is about normal for this time of year – nothing unusual there.

Tuesday the 25th morning offers the best moment in this whole outlook. It’s glassy, with a light NNE breeze, and the swell holds at 3 ft from the ENE. The energy is still low (118) and the period is short, but that glassy surface will make it feel cleaner than it has any right to. It’s surfable but very ordinary. The afternoon gets chopped up by a cross-onshore breeze, so that morning window is your only real chance.

Wednesday the 26th is a write-off with a cross-offshore wind in the morning and a storm risk in the arvo. The swell is still that same 3 ft ENE, but the wind ruins any chance of a clean wave. Thursday and Friday don’t offer anything better – cross-shore winds and poor surf. The energy does bump up to 155 on Thursday afternoon, but the wind is 16 mph from the SSE, making it lumpy and ugly.

The weekend of the 29th and 30th is more of the same. Saturday morning has a 2 ft E swell with a cross-on breeze, and by afternoon the wind is up to 19 mph from the SSE and the period drops to a shocking 5 seconds. That’s just junky wind-slop. Sunday is slightly bigger at 4 ft from the ESE, but it’s still cross-on and choppy, with moderate energy (161). Not worth paddling out.

Monday the 31st and Tuesday the 1st of September see the swell try to pick up a little, with Tuesday morning showing 4 ft from the ESE and energy jumping to 272. That’s the most energy we see in the entire period, but it’s still a short-period (6 seconds) swell with a light cross-onshore breeze. Marginal at best.

From Wednesday the 2nd through to the end of the forecast, the swell just fades away. By Friday the 4th of September, we’re down to 1 ft from the ENE. The morning of the 4th has a clean offshore WNW breeze, but with only 1 ft on offer and energy at just 49, you’d need a longboard and a lot of patience. After that, it’s all tiny, weak, and messy right through to Tuesday the 8th of September.

There’s no standout break here. If you’re desperate, the glassy Tuesday morning of the 25th of August is the cleanest you’ll get, but it’s still very ordinary. The rest is a long stretch of poor conditions. Sometimes it stays like this, and forecasts can change, but right now, I’d leave the board in the car.

Rusty

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