Broadbeach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get right into it. I’ve had a good look at the charts for Broadbeach and, well, it’s a tough one to sugar-coat. The next 16 days are looking pretty bleak for a proper surf. There’s no good swell on the cards at all, so we’re dealing with a real flat spell.

To give you the full picture, we’re looking at a run of days with nothing rideable until around the 10th of September. That’s over a week of tiny, weak waves we’re talking about. The energy in the water is just pathetic for the most part - we’re seeing combined energy values in the low double digits, like 70 or 84, which is as weak as it gets. There are a few pulses of energy, but they’re all arriving with bad wind and are too small to bother with.

The water temp is sitting at 69°, pretty much smack on average for this time of year, so at least you won’t be freezing while you’re waiting.

Honestly, the first real chance of anything surfable would be the morning of the 10th. That SSE swell pushes the wave height up to around 7ft with a period of 10 seconds, and the energy reading jumps to 1044, which is the biggest pulse in the whole window. But here’s the kicker – it’s accompanied by a strong, cross-onshore SSE wind at 25 mph. That’s going to turn the place into a messy, wind-blown nightmare. That’s not a surf day; that’s a day to watch from the car park.

The afternoon of the 10th eases off a touch – 4ft, but it's still cross-onshore and lumpy. Not great. We get a bit of a clean-up on the 11th with the swell dropping back to under 3ft, but the wind is still cross-onshore and choppy.

Looking at the second week, there's nothing on the horizon that’s going to save us. A small bump on the 8th has a long period but it's from the north and bumpy. The only potential stand-out, if you can call it that, might be the morning of the 13th. You’ve got a clean, cross-offshore breeze from the NNW and some small, weak swell at 2ft. The period is a short 8 seconds, and the energy is weak (72), so it’ll be small and gutless, but at least it might be a bit glassy. It’ll be a peaky, slow day for a longboard, with not much push.

All in all, with this kind of small, onshore slop, especially around the 10th with the strong wind and blown-out conditions, Broadbeach looks way more interesting for the kite crew than anyone with a paddle. Sometimes it’s just the way it goes. It’s a blank run, but it tends not to stay this poor for long, so keep an eye on the charts.

Rusty.

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