Folkestone Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, folks, Rusty here. Let’s break down what’s coming for the local surf. Gotta be honest out of the gate—this is a grim sixteen-day outlook. The first real chance of a wave is a long way off. The opening days are flat, with no energy and nothing to ride. Then, after a big gap, we get a very brief, modest pulse. It’s a tough hand.

We’re looking at Folkestone, a beach and reef set-up that’s sheltered and needs a solid SW swell to do its thing. Water temp is about normal for this time of year.

The first sniff of anything happens on Friday, August 14th in the morning. It’s tiny, just 1.0ft from the south, with a period of 3 seconds—that’s weak windswell. The energy is rock bottom. But the wind is glassy, dead calm. That’s the one positive. It’s clean, but you’ll be scratching for a ride. The afternoon picks up a light cross-shore breeze with the same small, weak swell. Not worth getting the car wet.

Then we go flat again. The standout, and I mean the only one in this whole forecast, arrives on Sunday, August 16th in the morning. We finally get a pulse of moderate energy. The swell is 5ft from the NE with a 5-second period. It’s a cross-shore wind, so it won’t be perfect, but it’s the biggest we’ll see all forecast. The lumpy cross-chop will be a factor, but for the experienced crew, there might be a few fun, punchy ones. The afternoon has similar conditions but slightly smaller. That Sunday morning is, by a landslide, the pick of the bunch.

Everything after that? It’s a washout. Tiny, poor, messy. We get a glassy morning on Monday, August 17th with 0.3ft, and a clean, offshore wind on Tuesday, August 18th morning, but with zero swell. It’s frustrating because the conditions are clean, but the ocean just isn’t sending us anything. The last week is a total dud, with strong winds and nothing but flat spells. For a spot that’s inconsistent, a blank run like this is pretty normal. It’s a waiting game.

Rusty.

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