Cordoama Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get this straight – the whole 16-day window around Cordoama is a tough one. The wind is just never your friend. It’s nearly always onshore or cross-onshore, and that’s a proper buzzkill for the wave face. The water is sitting at 70°, which is pretty standard for this time of year, so no surprises there.

We kick off on Friday, July 17th, and it’s a grim start. Tiny swell at 1.0 ft from the WNW, a period of 8 seconds, but that 15-18 mph wind is ruining it. The combined energy is only 28 (weak). It’s a write-off. Saturday and Sunday are much the same story – still small, with bumpy, choppy conditions. The swell bumps up to around 3 ft to 3 ft, but the period is short (4-5 seconds), so it’s just messy whitewater. The energy is weak, sitting in the 40s and 50s.

The whole first week is honestly a bit of a drudge. The wind stays fresh from the NNW, and the surf quality is consistently poor. The swell does start to build a little by the end of the week, hitting 3 ft to 4 ft on Friday the 24th and Saturday the 25th, but the wind is still a problem. The combined energy creeps into moderate territory (141 on the 25th morning), but the conditions are “fresh cross-onshore and lumpy.” It’s not game.

The second week shows more size, but the wind refuses to let up. From Sunday the 26th of July through to the end of the month, the swell is consistently in the 5 ft to 8 ft range, with a period of 6-8 seconds. The energy gets strong, hitting 290 (strong) on the 27th morning and 897 (very strong) on the 30th afternoon. But it’s all spoiled by that onshore wind. The surf is described as “messy” and “lumpy” – it’s just not a clean wave. Even when the swell tops out at 10 ft on the morning of the 31st with a period of 9 seconds and energy of 1309 (very strong), the cross-onshore wind is going to make it a stormy, blown-out beast. This setup looks way more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing for most of the period.

The very end of the run, on the 1st of August, shows a 8 ft swell from the NW with a 10-second period (groundswell), and the energy is still very strong at 1019. But again, the wind is cross-onshore. It’s a frustrating pattern.

There is no standout day. Honestly, the best call is to wait for a change in the wind. The size is there in the second half, but the quality is not. Keep an eye on it, but don’t book the day off.

Rusty.

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