Broadbeach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it. Rusty here, and I’ll be straight with you: there’s not a single standout session in the whole 16-day window for Broadbeach. The whole run is a stretch of poor surf conditions, with only a few mornings that are barely worth wetting a wetsuit.

The overall pattern is grim. For the first week-plus, from the morning of the 13th right through to the afternoon of the 25th, we’ve got a long gap of really ordinary, mostly poor surf. The few times the score gets to a “1” are just “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions” – nothing to get excited about. You’d be chasing tiny, weak swell with onshore or cross-off winds messing it up. The combined energy is mostly weak, with values like 62 and 57 early on, barely tickling the sandbanks.

The first real sniff of anything clean comes on the morning of Thursday, August 21st. Broadbeach will see a 3 ft east swell at 8 seconds (short period, so a bit junky and weak). The wind is light and cross-onshore (6 mph from the SE), which keeps it rideable but not pristine. Water temp is a normal 69°F, so that’s fine. This is the best the whole period offers, and that’s saying very little.

Then on Saturday, August 22nd, the morning shapes up with a glassy surface (N wind at 3 mph) and the same 3 ft ENE swell at 8 seconds. The combined energy is weak (162). It’s clean on the surface, but the swell is tiny and short-period. If you’re a longboarder or a beginner desperate for a bob, this is your only decent window. For everyone else, it’s a pass.

The following weekend, Sunday, August 23rd, the morning looks promising for a bit: 4 ft east swell at 9 seconds, with a moderate cross-off wind from the NW (12 mph). The water surface is “clean,” but the energy is still moderate (262). It’s the biggest swell we see, but the wind is a bit stiff and cross-off, so it won’t be perfect. Still, this is probably the pick of the whole outlook – a tiny window of clean, marginally surfable waves.

After that, Tuesday, August 25th, has a brief clean morning with 3 ft east swell at 9 seconds and a light offshore wind from the WSW (6 mph). Combined energy is weak (119). It’s clean but tiny.

The rest of the period, from the 26th onward, falls apart. Tiny swell (1.0 ft to 2 ft), strong winds, and lumpy, choppy conditions. The 28th even has a 25 mph south wind and a messy cross-chop. Forget it.

Bottom line: Broadbeach is a beginner-friendly, exposed beach break that’s fairly consistent, but the 16-day forecast is a dud. The best of a bad bunch is the morning of Saturday, August 22nd (glassy, tiny), and the morning of Sunday, August 23rd (biggest swell, clean-ish). If you’re a kitesurfer, the strong cross-shore winds later in the period might look interesting, but for a paddle surfer, this is a dry spell. It’s not normal to see such a blank run, but forecasts can change.

Rusty signing off.

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