Carbis Bay Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, surfers, Rusty here. Let’s see what we’ve got on the cards for Carbis Bay over the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I’ve gotta be straight with you – this is a grim outlook. The whole 16-day window is a write-off for a decent paddle. We’ve got wave heights, sure, but the quality is just not there. The conditions are persistently poor, and the finder is giving us a big fat zero for every single session. That’s a long, dry spell, folks.

We kick off on Monday the 20th with tiny, weak 1.0ft swell from the WNW, but the wind is a cross-onshore mess, making it choppy and poor. The water is sitting at 64°, which is a touch warmer than average for this time of year, but that’s about the only positive.

Tuesday the 21st and Wednesday the 22nd see the swell bump up to around 3ft, but it’s all short-period, wind-driven junk from the north, with a nasty cross-onshore wind. The wave energy is weak (94 and 88 respectively), and the surf is lumpy and choppy. Not worth the wetsuit.

Thursday the 23rd and Friday the 24th drop back down to tiny, weak waves with hardly any energy (as low as 13). The wind does go light and even glassy on Friday morning, but with a 2ft swell and a period of 8 seconds, it’s basically a lake. There’s just nothing to surf.

The weekend of the 26th and 27th brings the biggest swell of the period, hitting 5ft on Sunday morning with a combined energy of 196. But don’t get excited. That’s a short-period, choppy mess from the WNW with a strong cross-onshore wind. With the swell being over 5ft, it’s actually too big for beginners, but the quality is so poor that even experienced surfers won’t find anything. It looks more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer, to be honest.

The rest of the week into early August is a miserable run of tiny, weak waves or clean but tiny waves. We get a few days of offshore winds starting on the 31st of July, but the swell is only 2ft and 2ft. The wave energy is weak (68 and 42). It’s clean, but there’s no power.

The last couple of days, the 3rd and 4th of August, see a little lift to 4ft with clean conditions, but the period is a short 6 seconds and the combined energy is only moderate at 104. It’s clean, but the waves will be weak and crumbly. Even then, the forecast still calls it poor surf.

There’s simply no standout session here. The entire 16-day forecast is a blank run. For Carbis Bay, given it’s a pretty inconsistent spot at the best of times, this kind of run is more normal than unusual. Don’t bother checking the charts for a while; just grab a coffee and wait for a better set of charts.

Rusty.

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