Higgins Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s have a good look at what’s on offer for Higgins Beach over the next couple of weeks.

To be straight with you, the outlook is a flat spell. Right from the start and through the whole 16-day window, there’s nothing that’s going to get the heart pumping. The combined swell energy is weak, dropping from a very modest 120 early on and then spending most of its time in the low double digits. We’ve got a long gap of nothing worth paddling out for.

The first recommendation is for the morning of Friday, 31 July. Higgins Beach is exposed to the SE, and we’ve got a small 2 ft SE swell rolling in with a period of 10 seconds. The water temp is about average for the time of year. The wind is glassy from the NW, which is a major positive – it’ll be clean. But the energy is just 120 (weak), and the waves are “surfable but very ordinary.” It’s a small wave day for getting a few limp ones, but nothing to write home about.

That morning window is the best of the whole run. From Friday afternoon, things go downhill fast. The wind swings onshore and the swell drops to 2 ft – 2 ft, mostly with short periods below 8 seconds. The scores are zero across the board. Saturday morning, 1 August, is clear but the wind is cross-on from the east, and the swell is only 2 ft with a 9 second period. It’s a mess.

The next week is more of the same – tiny, onshore, and choppy. The combined energy rarely gets above 60. There’s a brief moment on the morning of Saturday, 8 August, where the wind is cross-off from the SW, 15 km/h, and the swell is 2 ft from the SE at 8 seconds. The energy is 60 (still weak), and it’s clean. You might get a few fun little crumbly ones, but it’s still only “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions.” The swell is just too small and weak to offer any real quality.

The rest of the second week fades into a mixture of tiny, short-period, and onshore slop. The combined energy regularly sits below 30. The morning of Tuesday, 11 August, sees a clean offshore wind from the NNW, but the swell is a weak 3 ft from the SSE with a 5-second period. That’s nothing but bumpy, short-period mush.

Honestly, if you’re desperate for a paddle, the Friday morning (31 July) and the Saturday morning (8 August) are the only windows where the conditions are clean, but the swell is so weak it’s barely surfable. For the rest of the 16 days, it’s a flat, choppy, onshore disaster. This is a classic summer flat spell for the area, and the forecasts can change, but right now, there’s nothing to get excited about.

Rusty.

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