Halawa Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Right, folks, let’s get into it. We’re looking at Halawa, a reef and river setup, and I gotta be honest with you – for the next couple of weeks, it’s a bit of a waiting game. The pattern is messy, with a lot of wind and not much quality on offer. The water temp is sitting at 80°, which is about average for this time of year, so nothing unusual there.

The first real chance of anything decent isn’t until the morning of Monday, September 8th. That’s when we see a clean, offshore SSE wind at 12 mph and a solid 7 ft swell from the WSW, with a period of 12 seconds. You’ll feel the energy in the water with a combined energy of 2048 – that’s strong stuff. The wind will be light offshore, so the wave faces should be clean, but the size is getting up there. For the experienced lot, this is your window. The afternoon of the 8th drops off a bit, with a 6 ft swell from the ENE, but it’s cross-offshore and still clean.

The standout session, the one I’d be setting my alarm for, is that Monday morning, September 8th. The swell direction is a bit west of south, which is not the ideal NNW direction for this spot, but the combination of size, solid period, and clean offshore wind is hard to ignore. Halawa can sometimes get a bit busy, so keep an eye on the crowd.

After that, it’s a long, dry spell. From Tuesday the 9th right through to the end of the forecast on the 20th, the conditions are just poor. The wind swings back to the east, cross-shore or onshore, and the swell is either too small, too weak, or chopped up. There’s a sniff of energy on the 13th and 14th with 7 ft to 8 ft swell from the ENE, but it’s onshore and the period is short, so it’ll be a messy, lumpy affair. The combined energy on those days is moderate (around 500-590), but the quality just isn’t there.

For a good 11 days after that Monday, there’s next to nothing worth paddling out for. The swell drops to a tiny 0.3 ft by the 18th, and the wind is just cross-shore and frustrating. It’s a long stretch of flat to poor conditions.

So, to sum it up: if you’re an advanced surfer, get on that Monday morning, September 8th. Otherwise, it’s a board-waxing and story-telling kind of fortnight.

Rusty.

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