Galveston-61st Street Pier Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Gonna be straight with you – the forecast for the next 16 days is a tough one. We’re looking at a long stretch of small, weak, and messy surf, so temper those expectations.

Let’s start with the only spot we’ve got on the radar: Galveston-61st Street Pier. The first real chance of a surf is from Thursday the 6th of August, but it’s not a pretty picture. We’re looking at tiny swell from the south, barely 1.6ft, with a short, weak period of only 4 seconds. The combined energy is a measly (11), which is as weak as it gets. Winds are onshore or cross-onshore, making it choppy and basically unrideable. Water temp is about average for the time of year, nothing special.

This poor pattern just drags on. Day after day, we see the same story: tiny swell heights, short periods, and onshore winds. The wind does back off a bit on the morning of the 17th of August, offering a light cross-shore from the WSW, but the swell is still only 2.6ft from the SE with a 6-second period – still pretty poor. The combined energy stays low, barely cracking 45.

The one glimmer, and it’s a faint one, shows up on the morning of the 18th of August. A light westerly breeze gives us a clean, cross-offshore wind at 9 mph. The swell is still only 1.6ft from the SE, but the period stretches to 6 seconds. The forecast says “clean,” which is a rare word in this entire outlook. For a brief moment, there might be a tiny, clean wave to be had for the patient soul on a longboard. But it’s a fleeting whisper of hope in an otherwise quiet 16-day window.

After that, it’s back to tiny, wind-affected dribble through the end of the forecast period. The setup is so consistently poor, with small swell and onshore wind, that this beach break honestly looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing for most of the period.

Sorry, folks. It’s a flat spell. We’ll keep an eye on it, but for now, this is a week or more of waiting.

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