Circoletto (Rome) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, it’s Rusty here, and I gotta be straight with you – this is a tough one to call. For the next sixteen days around Circoletto (Rome), the surf just isn't playing ball. We’re looking at a long stretch of tiny, weak, and mostly messy waves. It’s one of those periods where you’d be better off leaving the board in the car.

The whole vibe starts flat and stays that way for a good while. The first real bit of action doesn't even show up until Friday the 31st of July, and even then, it’s a sad little 3ft swell from the WNW with a puny period of 5 seconds. The combined energy is a pitiful 39 (weak), and that afternoon the wind swings onshore and ruins it. The water is sitting at 82°, which is much warmer than normal for this time of year, but that’s about the only thing going for it.

We get a few more mornings with a similar 3ft swell on Saturday the 1st and Sunday the 2nd of August, but the wind is messy. The morning of Sunday the 2nd has a light offshore from the ENE, but the swell is still anemic and the period is only 4 seconds. It’s a fleeting, clean window on a tiny wave. Then we hit a proper dead zone from Monday the 3rd right through to the morning of Monday the 10th of August – days of nothing but flat spells and poor surf conditions. It’s a real slump.

Now, the only thing that even gets my heart rate up is the morning of Tuesday the 11th of August. Out of nowhere, the swell jumps to 5ft from the west with a 6-second period. The combined energy hits 268 (moderate). That’s a real pulse of energy. But here’s the catch – the wind is from the south at 12 mph, putting a cross-onshore chop on it. It’s still labeled poor surf conditions. For a beach-and-reef setup like Circoletto, that kind of wind and that size is going to be a messy, bumpy affair. It might be more interesting for the kite surfers than the paddle crew, honestly.

The rest of the run into the second week is just more of the same – tiny scraps of swell with onshore wind. The morning of Friday the 7th of August has a glassy 2ft wave from the west, but it barely has any energy behind it. And the final days, through the 13th, are just a dribble.

Look, I’m not one to sugarcoat it. There are no standouts here. The best of a bad bunch is that Tuesday the 11th morning, but it’s clean only if you’re a fan of choppy, cross-onshore slop. For pure paddle surfing, this is a write-off. Sometimes the ocean just takes a holiday.

Rusty.

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