Galveston - Flagship Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a look at what the Gulf has in store.

Honestly, looking at the whole 16-day window through to the 10th of August, it’s a flat spell for the Galveston - Flagship Pier area. The data shows every single session, morning and afternoon, day after day, is flagged as "poor surf conditions" with a score of zero. That’s a long stretch of nothing promising. We’re talking about a solid 16 days with no real surf to get excited about. You can leave the boards in the car and bring a chair.

The water temp is about what you’d expect for this time of year, nothing unusual.

Over this whole period, the wave energy is weak to very weak, with the combined energy values mostly sitting in the single digits or low double digits (like 12, 27, 9, 7). The biggest energy spike is a paltry 48 on the 2nd of August afternoon. The swell heights stay tiny, hovering between 1 ft and 3 ft, and the periods are short, mostly 4 to 6 seconds, meaning it’s all windswell with no push.

The wind is almost always cross or cross-onshore. The mornings offer a bit of relief with some clean conditions from a WSW cross-off breeze, particularly on the 27th, 28th of July, and the 1st and 2nd of August. But even those clean windows are attached to ridiculously small, weak surf. There’s no combination of decent swell and favorable wind that makes it worth a paddle. The break is exposed to the SE, and the optimum swell is from the SE, but we just aren’t getting any quality swell during this period.

There’s a tiny window on the 1st and 2nd of August where the swell bumps up to 2 ft - 3 ft from the SSW, but the wind swings onshore in the afternoons, chopping it up. For a beach/pier setup, this is just a no-go.

Sorry, folks. This is a classic summer flat spell for the Texas coast. Put the wetsuit away and pick up a fishing rod. It won’t be poor forever, forecasts can change, but right now, there’s nothing to chase.

Rusty.

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