El Caño de la Culata Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what's cookin' for our one and only spot over the next couple of weeks.

Alright, straight up, I gotta be honest with you. This is about as flat and frustrating a 16-day run as you can get for "El Caño de la Culata". We're looking at a whole lot of nothing for the foreseeable future. The water's sitting at a normal 71° for this time of year, so at least a paddle on a board won't be too cold, but you're not gonna be catching much.

The pattern is grim. From Monday the 10th through to Tuesday the 25th of August, every single forecast window is marked as 'poor surf conditions'. There's just no energy coming in. We start off Monday arvo with a tiny 2ft swell from the WSW but it's crushed by a 19 mph onshore wind. The combined swell energy is a measly 9 – that's just background noise, not surf.

Tuesday the 11th morning goes glassy with a light northerly offshore wind, but with zero swell (energy of 0), it's a flat, clean lake. Wednesday the 12th morning is glassy too, again with zero energy. We see a few tiny pulses of 0.7ft or 1ft on the Thursday and Friday, but they're all accompanied by moderate onshore or cross-onshore breezes, making it a messy, choppy waste of time.

The weekend of the 15th and 16th is the same sad story: tiny 0.7ft waves, poor wind, and very weak energy readings (2 or 3). Even the following week, from the 17th through to the 25th, offers nothing. There are a few windows with cleaner winds, like Thursday the 20th morning with a light cross-offshore or Friday the 21st morning with a cross-offshore, but the swell is non-existent (0.3ft). The wave energy stays critically low, barely hitting double digits.

To be brutally honest, there is no best day here. There's no stand out. This isn't a situation where you pick the least bad option; it's a situation where you leave the board in the car. The swell direction is all over the shop – WSW, S, W – but it doesn't matter because there's no power behind any of it. For a beginner-friendly, sheltered spot like this, it's a total bust. Sometimes you get these blank runs, and this is a proper one. The only thing that might look interesting here for a session is if the wind is howling onshore on a day with a bit of texture, but even then, the waves are too small. For now, it's a kite-skunk too.

Keep an eye on the charts, but for the next 16 days, there's nothing worth paddling out for.

Rusty.

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