Ha Golshim Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, I’m Rusty. Let’s be straight with you – this 16-day window up at Ha Golshim is a tough watch for paddle surfers. The whole period is littered with poor surf conditions and mostly ordinary to marginal wave quality. There’s a real lack of decent swell and the wind is usually either cross-onshore or onshore, chopping things up. The wave energy is weak for most of the run, with values like 57, 60, 62, 89 – nothing that gets the heart pumping. If you’re desperate, we’ve got a couple of very brief windows that might be worth a look, but honestly, this is one of those stretches where it’s fair to say the surf just isn’t on.

The best of a quiet bunch falls on Thursday the 27th of July and Tuesday the 28th of July in the mornings. Thursday 27th July morning is about as clean as it gets for this spot: glassy conditions with a slight air and WNW swell coming in at 4 ft, period around 8 seconds. The combined energy hits 165 – that’s moderate energy. The wind is dead flat, so the surface will be smooth, but the swell is short period and the break is sheltered (WNW optimum), so expect small, weak waves. Definitely beginner-friendly size. Water temp is 84°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year. Tuesday 28th July morning also offers glassy conditions with a tiny 3 ft WNW groundswell, period 7 seconds, and combined energy of only 68. It’s the cleanest you’ll see all week, but very small and inconsistent.

For the rest of the run, there’s a gap of several days from Friday afternoon through to Thursday the 31st of July where the surf is either flat or too messy to recommend. Then Friday 31st July morning shows a marginal 3 ft WNW swell with period 9 seconds and 94 combined energy, but it’s cross-onshore light breeze. Saturday the 1st of August morning has 3 ft WNW at 8 seconds with a light cross-shore wind and 147 combined energy – surfable but very ordinary. Sunday the 2nd of August morning is also marginal. After that, the energy drops away again into tiny, poor waves right through to early August.

The only other standout is Friday 7th August morning: glassy again with a 4 ft WNW swell at 8 seconds and a combined energy of 157 – moderate. That’s promising, but it’s over two weeks away so keep your expectations in check for now. The water anomaly is fine, and crowds at Ha Golshim can show up sometimes, but given how inconsistent the break is and how small the waves are, it won’t be busy.

To be honest, if the wind stays up and the swell stays weak like this, the set-up here might actually look more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. The wave energy is too low and the period is too short to produce anything with shape. But forecasts can change – it doesn’t tend to stay this poor forever.

Rusty.

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