El Comedor Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let's have a look at the situation.

Right now, the outlook for the next 16 days is a real tough one. It’s not looking good. From the start, all we’ve got is El Comedor, a reef break that only works for experts, and even then, the conditions are just not cooperating. There’s swell, sure, but the wind is trashing it all.

The first week is a write-off. Wednesday and Thursday are both a total mess with consistent onshore wind and short-period, weak swell. The wave energy is weak, sitting around 138 to 271. The water’s about average for this time of year, nothing weird going on there. The wind is blowing straight from the NNE, which is straight onshore for El Comedor. The swell is tiny, mostly 4 ft to 6 ft, with a period of just 6 to 7 seconds. That’s just wind-chop with no power.

Friday (July 31st) through to the end of the first week is more of the same: onshores, messy faces, and poor surf. The swell gets a little bigger here and there, hitting 6 ft to 6 ft, but with the onshore wind, it’s just a lumpy, bumpy mess. The energy climbs up into the 200s and 300s, but it doesn’t matter if the wind is in the wrong place. You’d be fighting the wind the whole time. It’s not worth paddling out for anyone.

Then we hit a big gap. For the second week, from the 5th through the 13th of August, the model shows a lot of swell, but look at the wind. It’s still mostly onshore or cross-on from the NNE or N, blowing 9 to 16 mph. The wave heights climb, hitting 7 ft on the 5th and 8 ft by the 10th and 11th. The energy ramps up big time – 450, 744, and even 638 on the 10th. That’s strong wave energy, but it’s all coming from the wrong direction for this spot. The optimum swell direction for El Comedor is NNW. The swell here is coming from NNE. It’s never going to line up properly. That onshore wind will turn any size into a washing machine.

This setup, with significant swell and strong onshore wind at a reef, isn’t good for surf. For a spot like this, it might actually be more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing if the wind is blowing across the face. For the surfer, it’s a hard pass.

Honestly, there’s no standout session in this whole 16-day window. The entire period is a bust. Every single day is rated a zero. You’d be wasting your time and energy. Sometimes it stays this poor in an area, and this is one of those stretches where you just have to wait it out.

Keep the stick in the car, but don’t go to El Comedor.

Rusty.

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