Daytona Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s chew the fat on what’s happening at Daytona Beach over the next couple of weeks.

Gotta be honest, it’s a pretty grim picture. The whole 16-day window is a real downer, with no real standout sessions to get the heart pumping. We’ve got a whole lot of days with tiny, weak waves and rubbish wind. The first recommendation kicks off on Friday morning, September 4th, but it’s a real struggle.

Let’s run through it. Friday morning the 4th you’ll find tiny 2ft waves from the east, with a short period of 6 seconds. The energy is weak (47). There’s a risk of thunderstorms and a light cross-offshore breeze, so it’s clean but small. It’s surfable but very ordinary. By the afternoon, the wind swings onshore and it gets choppy. Saturday the 5th is even smaller, dropping to 1ft, and while the morning has a light offshore, the swell is just too weak to do anything with. Sunday the 6th through most of the next week are essentially flat with wave heights under 2ft and poor conditions. You’ll see some glassy mornings, like Tuesday the 8th and Thursday the 10th, but the swell is tiny – 1ft to 2ft – so it’s a lake, not a surf.

We get a little bump on Wednesday the 9th with 3ft from the northeast and the energy finally hits triple digits at 115, but the wind is onshore, making it a messy, choppy mess. The next decent push comes on Monday the 14th of September, with waves building to 4ft from the east-northeast, but it’s got a short period of 7 seconds and strong onshore winds of 15 mph. The energy is up to 159, but the conditions are poor. This setup looks way more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing, to be honest. The wind and chop are gonna be a handful.

The rest of the forecast is more of the same: tiny swells, poor wind, and a lot of “poor surf conditions” notes. The only flicker of hope is a glassy morning on Saturday the 19th of September, with a 0.7ft easterly swell but a long period of 12 seconds. That’ll be a clean, tiny ankle-snapper. The water temp is about average for the time of year, so don’t expect any surprises there.

Basically, for Daytona Beach, it’s a dry spell. The break is a fairly consistent sandbar, but with no swell and mostly bad wind, you’re better off leaving the board in the car. It’s a blank run, and for this area, that’s not totally unusual. Keep an eye on the forecasts, though – it never stays this poor for long.

Rusty.

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