El Lloret Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, surfers, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you—this 16-day window is looking pretty bleak for scoring waves. We’ve got a consistent run of swell, but it’s not translating into anything rideable. The whole period is a write-off for decent surf, and I’m not going to sugarcoat it.

Looking at the whole stretch, we’ve got waves every day, but the conditions are just poor. That starts right away on Tuesday the 4th. We’ve got 5ft of swell at El Lloret, but it’s a gutless 7-second period and the report is calling it poor. Even with a clean, offshore northerly breeze, there’s just no push or shape to it. The water temp is 74°F, which is about normal for this time of year, but that’s about the only thing that’s normal.

The swell sticks around through Wednesday and Thursday, bumping up slightly to 6ft, but that short period keeps things junky and unappealing. The energy starts to build a bit, from that weak 205 reading on Tuesday up to around 345-393 by Thursday, but the wave quality is still terrible. Friday is more of the same, with 5ft to 6ft of windswell. The wind stays offshore, which is a small mercy, but the surf is just messy.

Saturday the 8th is where things get a little grim, with the wind turning cross-onshore, leading to choppy, bumpy conditions on top of that already poor swell. It’s not going to be any fun.

From the 9th through to the 14th, there’s a full week of poor, unrideable surf. The swell hovers around 6ft to 7ft, but it’s all short-period windswell, with the energy reading climbing into the moderate range—peaking at 599 on the afternoon of Friday the 14th. But with that kind of period, it’s all just closeout slop. The wind is mostly offshore and light, which almost makes it more frustrating to know it’s clean but still completely unsurfable.

The only glimmer of something, and I mean a faint glimmer, comes on the morning of Saturday the 15th. The swell bumps up to 8ft from the NNE with an 8-second period, and the energy reading jumps to 731. That’s strong, but here’s the catch: at 8ft, this is pushing into expert-only territory, and with that short period and a reef break like El Lloret, it’s going to be a heavy, walled-up mess. The forecast even calls it “marginal.” That’s the *only* day with a score of 1 out of 10, and that’s just not enough to get me excited. The wind is light and offshore at just 9 mph, so it’ll be clean, but the wave itself looks like a ledgy, critical closeout.

After that, it’s back to the poor, messy script. Sunday the 16th has 7ft of swell, but the period drops back down and the rating is back to zero. The energy stays moderate, but the surf quality is shot. Then it slowly fades away, with waves between 5ft and 6ft from the 17th through the 19th, all with that same 7-8 second period and all still rated as poor. It’s just a long, grinding stretch of nothing.

So, here’s the truth: We’ve got a 16-day forecast, and there is not one single standout day. We can’t even call Saturday the 15th a true standout; it’s just the least awful option, and only for experts. There is zero good surf on offer. The swell is almost all short-period windswell, too fat and weak to do anything with. A blank run like this is just what this area does sometimes.

Until the ocean decides to cooperate, I’d leave the boards in the car and go do something else. This one’s a total wash.

Rusty, out.

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