Caballeros Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright crew, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what’s cookin' for the next couple weeks.

Honestly, it’s a pretty tough stretch ahead. We’ve got swell on the table, but the wind just won’t play nice for the most part, and the quality is looking marginal across the board. There’s no real standout, but if you’re desperate for a paddle, there’s one window that might give you something half decent.

The first few days are rough. Friday the 28th through Sunday the 30th, we’ve got some decent sized swell – 7 ft down to 5 ft – coming out of the SW, but the wind is mostly cross-onshore from the S or SSW at 9 mph, keeping things choppy and messy. The water temp is a very unusual 68°F, a whopping 6° warmer than normal for this time of year. That’s a weird one.

The only real sniff of a clean session comes on Saturday the 29th morning at Caballeros. We get a brief window of offshore wind from the SW at 6 mph with the swell still a solid 6 ft from the SW, period around 14 seconds. That’s decent groundswell. The combined energy is moderate (1434). It’s the cleanest it’s gonna get all period, but even then, it’s only a “fairly consistent” reef break, and crowds are possible. Still, that Saturday morning is your best bet.

After that, it’s a long grind. Sunday the 30th through to Tuesday the 1st of September, the swell drops below 3 ft with weak energy, wind remains cross-onshore, and the scores are flat. There’s a long gap of mediocrity here with nothing worth writing home about.

We get a slight pulse mid-week. Thursday the 3rd of September morning, we see a bump in swell to 4 ft from the SW with a very long period of 17 seconds, and the energy picks up to moderate (1097). But the wind is still light cross-onshore from the SSW at 6 mph. That long period groundswell will favour this reef setup, but the wind keeps it from being truly clean.

By Friday the 4th of September, the swell bumps up to 6 ft from the SW again, period of 16 seconds, with moderate to strong energy (1604). Again, cross-onshore wind from the S or SSW. For a reef break, that’s not ideal. It might be more interesting for the kites than paddlers given the persistent cross-breeze.

The second week rolls in with similar story: swell pulses to 5 ft to 5 ft around Tuesday the 8th and Wednesday the 9th, but the wind stays stubbornly cross-onshore. Nothing really cleans up. Waves stay marginal.

Bottom line: if you’ve got to surf, make the call for Saturday morning August 29th at Caballeros. It’s the closest thing to clean we’ve got, and that offshore wind is precious. Otherwise, it’s a waiting game.

Stay patient, brothers and sisters.

Rusty

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