Church Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, grab a coffee, let’s have a look at the next 16 days for Church. First up, the water temp is sitting at 69°F – that's a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, so you can leave the thick winter suit at home.

Honestly, the start of this run is pretty flat. There’s nothing worth paddling out for until the morning of Monday, July 6th. Even then, it’s a marginal call – we’re looking at a 3ft swell from the SSW, but the winds are cross-onshore and there’s only moderate energy in the water. It’s a bit of a tease.

Things start to nudge up from Tuesday, July 7th. The swell pushes to 4ft, still from the SSW, with a long period of 18 seconds – that’s proper groundswell energy. The combined swell energy hits 822, which is solid, and the morning winds are offshore from the SSW. That’s a clean window. Wednesday, July 8th holds similar size, 4ft, with light offshore winds in the morning again. These two mornings are the best of the bunch. The long period means the waves will have shape and power, but at a beach-and-point break like Church, that long period can make it a bit tricky – sometimes it just runs straight. Still, for an advanced surfer, these are the sessions to circle.

From Thursday, July 9th, the swell drops back to 3ft and the wind goes cross-onshore, so it gets lumpy. Then from Friday, July 10th right through until the end of the forecast, it’s mostly poor surf conditions with small, weak swell (under 3ft) and a lot of cross-onshore wind. There’s a quiet, flat spell in the middle there. By Wednesday, July 15th, we’re down to 1ft to 2ft – just not enough to bother.

The only true standout is Tuesday, July 7th and Wednesday, July 8th, with that clean, offshore morning wind and solid 4ft groundswell. That’s where the quality sits. Everything else is a wait-and-see or a skip. Keep the board waxed for that Tuesday window.

Rusty.

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