Eastbourne Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what the next couple of weeks are serving up for us in this neck of the woods.

It's a pretty bleak outlook, to be honest. We're looking at a long stretch of nothing much. The first surfable suggestion on the cards is at Eastbourne. Right now, into Thursday the 13th, we're dealing with tiny 0.6ft waves from the WSW, and the wind is a light cross-on. It's not really doing anything. The combined swell energy is next to nothing (8), and the water is sitting at a remarkable 70.3°, which feels much warmer than usual for this time of year – a real anomaly.

Honestly, for the next week and a half, it's mostly a write-off. Friday the 14th shapes up with a bit of a clean look from a WNW offshore wind, but we're still stuck on that paltry 1ft swell. The same story continues right through until about Monday the 24th. There's a stretch of days from the 18th to the 21st where there's literally zero swell period recorded. After that we get a few days of small 0.3ft to 0.6ft ripples, but the wind shifts around, often being onshore or cross-onshore. There's no energy in the water to get excited about.

Now, there is a slight flicker of hope right at the tail end of the forecast. On Sunday the 23rd of August, the swell bumps up to 1.6ft from the SSW, but the wind will be a moderate cross-on from the E, making things choppy. It's still not great. The best we see in the whole window is actually on Monday the 24th of August. The swell picks up to 1.3ft from the WSW, but the key factor is some light rain and a gentle cross-on wind. The combined energy is only 17, so it's weak. That's the biggest bump in energy we get, and it's still not enough to call it a good session.

Because the swell is so small and weak the whole time, and the quality is consistently poor, there's nothing here that stands out as a winner. The whole 16-day window is basically a bust for any decent paddle surfing at Eastbourne.

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