Bronte Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab a coffee and listen up. It's Rusty here.

Right now, we’re looking at a bit of a mixed bag. There's a decent window of clean surf early on, but the guides are clear that for most of this 16-day run, the conditions are going to be pretty ordinary. The prime window is on Tuesday the 11th and into Wednesday morning the 12th. After that, it gets messy for a long stretch.

The standout session is hands-down Tuesday afternoon (August 11th) at Bronte Beach. We’ve got a 5ft southerly swell coming in with a gentle offshore W wind. The combined energy is a solid 624, so there’s some real push behind it. The file calls for *very good* surf conditions, and that 10-second period from the south should set up some nice, lined-up waves. Clean, offshore, decent size – that’s where you want to be.

Tuesday morning the 11th is also an option, with a smaller 2ft swell from the ENE and a moderate offshore wind, but the combined energy is low at 160, so it’ll be weaker and slower. Good for a longboard or a beginner, but not the main event.

Then things take a turn.

Wednesday morning (August 12th) still has clean, offshore conditions on a 3ft south swell, so you might get a few. But by Wednesday afternoon, the wind swings cross-offshore and the quality drops. From Thursday the 13th all the way through to Monday the 24th, the forecast is a saga of poor surf conditions. We’ve got cross-shore, cross-onshore, and onshore winds from the SSE, SE, and ENE, combined with choppy, lumpy seas. A lot of these days have 5ft to 7ft of swell, but with terrible wind. It’s going to be a messy, blown-out mess for nearly two weeks.

There is a flicker of hope way down the track. Monday morning, August 24th, shows a 7ft southerly swell with a fresh offshore WNW wind at 30 km/h and a combined energy of 625. That’s a big, clean swell for Bronte. But it’s over a week away, so take that with a grain of salt – long-range forecasts are always less certain. If it holds, it’ll be a powerful, clean session, but the 7ft height and 8-second period make it more of a challenge; it might be a bit quick and steep for a beachie, so watch out for that.

For the vast majority of this period, the setup at Bronte is better suited to kite surfing than paddle surfing, with the strong cross and onshore winds and lumpy conditions.

For water temp, expect it to be about average for this time of year.

Stay tuned, and I’ll keep you posted if those later calls firm up. Keep your eyes on that Monday the 24th.

Rusty.

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