Condos Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty. Let me break down what we’ve got coming up for Condos. To be straight with you, mate, it’s a tough stretch of outlooks. Looking across the whole 16 days, I don’t see a single session I’d call a winner for a proper surf. We’ve got swell, sure, but the wind is the killer from the start right through to the end – it’s persistently cross-onshore and often fresh to strong. That’s gonna chop everything up and make it lumpy, not the kind of day you paddle out for.

We start with Thursday morning, July 23rd. There’s a tiny 0.5m S swell at 5 seconds – that's short period, weak energy (15). The morning has a gentle offshore breeze which is clean for a moment, but it’s barely a wave. By the afternoon, the wind swings to a fresh cross-on S at 35 km/h and the quality is gone. That poor-surf tag is on everything.

Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th: the swell bumps up a bit, around 1.4m on Friday and then dropping back, but the wind stays cross-onshore. Fresh breezes on Friday make it lumpy, Saturday is light cross-onshore at 10 km/h but still messy. Combined energy stays low to moderate at best – we see 137 on Friday morning. Still, with that wind direction, it’s not surfable.

We go through a long, flat spell. From July 26th right through to August 3rd, it’s the same story: weak little swells, mostly under 1m, with that relentless cross-onshore wind. The wind is coming from SSE or SE, sometimes fresh at 25–35 km/h. The water temp is 84°F, anomaly of 1°F, so about normal for this time of year. Not a single standout. Conditions are labelled "poor surf conditions" for every single session.

Now, there is a pulse that shows up around August 5th. Wednesday morning the 5th shows a 1.6m SE swell at 7 seconds, combined energy climbing to 233 – that’s moderate to strong energy. That’s the biggest swell of the whole run. Still, the wind is cross-onshore at 30 km/h, and it’s described as "fresh cross-onshore and lumpy." So even though the size is there, you’d be fighting chop. It stays in that range through Thursday the 6th, 1.4m at 7 seconds with moderate breeze cross-onshore. For kite surfers, the combination of decent wind and some swell might be fun, but for paddle surfing, it’s a no-go.

The last day I see is Friday, August 7th, and the swell drops back under 1m, wind still on it. Nothing changes.

So overall, in the entire 16-day window, there is no window of clean, rideable waves. It’s a blank run – sometimes the conditions just don’t line up, and this is one of those times. Hold tight, forecasts change, it won’t stay this way forever.

Rusty.

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