Eastern Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, listen up. Eastern Beach is gonna be a bit of a slow starter, but there's some serious gold at the end of the tunnel if you're patient.

The first few days are a tease. The water is a freezing 64°, which is a whopping 5° colder than average for July. That’s a bone-chilling sign. The first real look is Sunday the 19th. The afternoon has a clean 5ft SSE swell with a 10-second period, and the combined energy is a moderate 699. With a light SSW cross-off breeze, it's rideable for an intermediate. Not a hero wave, but it's surf.

Monday the 20th is a mix. The morning has a meaty 8ft SW swell, a bit of a beast for most. The afternoon drops to a cleaner 5ft from the SE with a longer 12-second period, but the wind is still a bit tricky.

Tuesday the 21st is your first real winner. The morning is *dead flat calm* – glassy as a lake. That 4ft SE swell with an 11-second period will be silky smooth. The energy is still moderate at 636, but the total lack of wind makes it the pick of the early week. The afternoon fades to a tiny 3ft SSW swell and the wind turns onshore, so it’s a morning-only mission.

The middle of the week goes south. Wednesday the 22nd is clean but small, and Thursday the 23rd is a mess with 15 mph winds blowing the 6ft swell into a choppy, lumpy mess. Friday the 24th brings a solid 7ft S swell with a very long 16-second period (1515 combined energy), but it’s accompanied by light rain and onshore wind. That long-period stuff needs a point break to really shine, here it’ll just be a big, straight, closed-out wall.

The weekend of the 25th and 26th is a total loss. Strong onshore NE winds at 15 mph trash everything. Go do something else.

Monday the 27th and Tuesday the 28th are building, but not great. The real payoff is coming.

Wednesday the 29th is the one to circle on your calendar. The morning is *glassy* again, with a 7ft S swell and a very long 15-second period. The combined energy is a strong 2022. This is serious surf for experienced surfers only. The afternoon is even better: a 5ft SSW swell with a massive 16-second period and a combined energy of 3318. The wind is a light ESE, making it glassy. This is premium, clean, powerful, world-class feeling surf. The only catch is that long-period groundswell can be a bit straight on a beach break, but with the glass, it’ll be a day to remember.

The first few days of August have a couple of last blasts. Saturday the 1st afternoon has a clean 8ft ENE swell, a brute. Sunday the 2nd is a giant: a 12ft ENE swell in the morning, going glassy, and a 10ft swell in the afternoon with offshore wind. The energy is over 3300. But the file straight up says it’s too big for this break. That’s for the absolute lunatics only. Monday the 3rd is blown out again.

So, the bottom line: Tuesday morning, July 21st for the fun, clean, glassy session, and Wednesday, July 29th for the big, powerful, epic groundswell. Everything else is either a skunk, too windy, or just too damn big.

Rusty

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