Halawa Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your board and let’s get into it. This is a rough stretch we’re looking at for the next couple of weeks. Honestly, if you’re chasing waves, you’re gonna be doing a lot of watching and waiting. The long-range looks like it might throw us a bone eventually, but for the first week or so, it’s pretty grim.

We’re starting off with a flat, lumpy mess on Friday the 14th. There’s a bit of swell showing early, around 7.5ft, but it’s coming from the ENE with a short, choppy 8-second period, and that onshore breeze is just going to ruin it. Combined energy is moderate at 703, but that doesn’t matter when the wind is like that. Forget about it, it’s a write-off. By the afternoon, it’s basically gone – 0.6ft of dribble.

That flatness and wind continues right through the weekend. Saturday the 15th and Sunday the 16th are all about strong, gusty winds and tiny, short-period swell. There’s no power, no shape, nothing to get excited about. We’re looking at a 3 to 4 day gap at the start with absolutely nothing on offer.

We get a tiny blip of life early next week, but it’s not worth paddling out for. On Tuesday the 18th, we see a bit of a pulse from the ENE, with a 5.2ft swell, but it’s only a 6-second period windswell. The energy is weak-to-moderate at 180, and the wind is still cross-shore and lumpy. It’s just messy and junky. That’s the theme all through the rest of the week, too. A bunch of inconsistent, short-period, cross-shore junk. Forget it.

Now, let’s talk about the light at the end of the tunnel. It’s a long way off, but things might finally start to turn around on Friday the 28th. We’ve got a new swell from the NE showing up, 3.6ft, but the period is still short at 7 seconds. More importantly, the wind starts to ease a bit. Still cross-onshore, but it’s a start. Then on Saturday the 29th, we finally see some real swell energy. It’s still coming from the ENE, at 5.6ft with an 8-second period, but the combined energy jumps to 370, which is more like it. The wind is still cross-shore, so it won’t be perfect, but it might be the best we see in this whole window. It’s a promise, not a certainty, but it’s something to keep an eye on.

The standout spot here is Halawa, a reef and river setup. It’s a fairly consistent break that handles swell from the NNW, but this whole outlook is plagued by ENE winds. So even if the swell shows up, the wind will be working against it. It’s usually an intermediate spot, but with this kind of short-period, messy swell, it might be better to give it a miss unless you’re feeling confident. We’ll have to see if that Saturday the 29th swell materializes as expected.

The water’s about average for this time of year at Halawa, so no worries on that front. But with such a long run of poor conditions and the only decent swell being a week and a half out, you’ve got plenty of time to work on your pop-up. This looks more like a stretch for the kite surfers with this cross-shore wind, not us paddle surfers. But forecasts can change, so don’t write it off completely just yet.

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