Doheney Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Hey, Rusty here. Look, I’ve been over the charts for the next couple weeks, and I gotta say, it’s a pretty quiet outlook for Doheney Beach. There’s a long stretch of nothing much at the start, so don’t get your hopes up.

The first session that even looks worth a wetty is Tuesday morning, July 7th. Doheney Beach (reef) will have some long-period groundswell pushing in at about 4ft out of the SSW with an 18-second interval. That’s proper groundswell, so the shape at this reef should be alright, but that light cross-onshore breeze (10 km/h) will put a few bumps on the face. Water temp is running about 67°, a touch warmer than usual for this time of year. The combined energy is at 853 (moderate), but overall it’s a marginal call with dodgy tides—nothing to get fired up about. Wednesday morning the 8th might look cleaner with an offshore wind, but the swell drops to 3ft and it’s still marginal.

From Friday the 10th right through to around Tuesday the 14th, it goes pretty flat and ugly. Swell drops under 3ft, onshore winds take over, and the combined energy drops into the low hundreds. Poor conditions, basically a washout. Onshore winds and small swell mean this exposed beach-and-reef setup is more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing during that stretch.

There’s a little flicker late on Thursday July 16th—glassy calm conditions with just over 1ft of SSW swell (16-second period), and combined energy of only 167 (weak). It’s surfable but very ordinary. The wind goes dead calm, so if you’re desperate for a longboard and don’t care about size, you could get a few. But it’s tiny.

Sunday July 19th looks like the only real standout in the whole 16-day window, and even then, it’s nothing huge. The morning brings about 3ft from the SW (17 seconds) with a cross-shore breeze, and by the afternoon it bumps to 3ft with a clean cross-off wind. Combined energy hits 611 (moderate). For this spot, that’s about as good as it gets in this forecast—clean faces, long period, decent shape for the reef. Crowds are likely at Doheney, so expect company.

The week after, the 20th and 21st, we’re back to mostly onshore chop and marginal surf with tiny swell. Nothing to write home about.

So bottom line: no proper swell in the first week, and the only half-decent window is around Sunday July 19th with clean conditions and waist-high waves. Keep expectations low, and maybe bring a kite if you’ve got one. This is one of those stretches where it’s not gonna stay poor forever—forecasts can change—but right now, it’s a flat spell with a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it moment mid-month.

Rusty.

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