Bulli Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, it’s Rusty here.

Look, I’ll be straight with you – the next week and a half is looking pretty flat and grim for Bulli Beach. We’ve got a long stretch of nothing on offer, with the first solid recommendation not coming until Wednesday the 23rd. From the 15th through to the 22nd, it’s mostly tiny dribble under 1ft, and a lot of the time there’s just no swell at all. There’s a bit of clean, glassy conditions on Friday the 18th morning and the weekend, but there’s simply no waves to ride. It’s pretty much a write-off for the paddle.

The water temp is sitting at 65°F on the 15th, which is about average for this time of year, so at least you won’t be freezing while you stare at the flatness.

Now, things start to liven up mid-next week. The first real chance to get wet comes on Wednesday the 23rd. The morning is still messy with a cross-onshore wind, but by Wednesday afternoon a new NE swell pushes in at 7ft. It’s coming from the NE, which is the optimum direction for this spot, and the shorter 6-second period will dump some punchy, beach-break style waves. The wind will be cross-offshore, keeping it clean. The combined energy is strong at 334, but it’s not huge. This is your best bet for the whole outlook, and it’s still not a classic – it’s a bit short-period.

Thursday the 24th drops back a bit with 4ft in the morning, still NE, but the winds pick up and it’s just ordinary. There’s a bit of waist-high stuff on Friday the 25th and Saturday the 26th, but it’s gutless and disorganised.

The next real standout is Sunday the 27th. It’s glassy in the morning with a 4ft NE swell, period of 7 seconds. It’s clean and surfable, a decent option for the weekend after the flat spell, but not quite as big as the Wednesday. It’s still a bit fat and inconsistent though.

After that, we get into the second week and it goes downhill fast. Late on Tuesday the 29th, a proper storm swell hits from the SE. Wednesday the 30th sees the swell jump to 7ft in the morning and 6ft in the afternoon, but the wind is howling onshore at 22-25 mph, making it a complete washing machine. Even though the wave energy is very strong (614 and 466), it’s going to be messy, blown-out chaos. For a beach and reef setup like this, that’s kite-surfing territory, not paddle surfing. This is expert-only if you’re silly enough to go out.

So, the standout is Wednesday afternoon the 23rd – it’s the biggest clean-ish surf of the period. The backup is Sunday morning the 27th when it’s glassy but smaller. Everything else is flat or blown out.

Rusty.

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