Guidel Plages Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s break down the situation at Guidel Plages for the next couple of weeks. Straight up, it’s a quiet period, and we’re lookin’ at a long stretch of not much.

To start, the first week is a total dud for any real surfing. The water temp is about 66°F, which is normal for now. Sunday morning kicks off with a tiny 1ft swell from the WSW, period short at 8 seconds, energy is weak (29). The wind is light and cross-off, so the surface is clean, but there’s no power. That’s the story. The swell stays under 3ft for days, with a constant onshore or cross-onshore breeze from the SW and WSW making it choppy and lumpy. Wave energy mostly stays below 100. Poor conditions, plain and simple.

We get a little bump mid-week – Tuesday the 5th and Wednesday the 6th see the swell hit 4ft to 4ft, with a moderate combined energy of 178 and 183. But the wind is all wrong. Strong onshore and cross-onshore winds (15-25 mph) ruin any chance of quality. It’s messy and blown-out. No standout window in that first week at all.

Going into the second week, from the 7th of August all the way to the 17th, the swell is tiny. We’re talkin’ 1ft to 2ft waves, short periods mostly under 10 seconds, and wave energy barely over 30 (combined energy of all swells is weak, in the 20s and 30s). There are a few clean mornings, like Saturday the 8th with a light offshore from the NE, or the 15th with a glassy calm – but the swell is just too small to bother with. The wind often switches onshore in the afternoons, chopping up the little that’s there.

The best of a bad bunch is that morning on Saturday, 15th August. It’s dead calm, glassy conditions, with a 2ft groundswell from the W and an 8-second period. Clean, but tiny energy (31). That’s a longboard or foil session, if anything. For a real paddle, it’s flat.

This kind of long flat spell happens here. Don’t sweat it too much; forecasts can turn around.

Rusty.

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