Hilton Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you – the outlook for Hilton over the next couple of weeks is pretty flat. I’m looking at the charts and there’s nothing on the horizon that’s going to get the heart rate up. The first real surfable day isn’t even on the cards, and the whole 16-day window is a write-off for any kind of decent waves. We’ve got a long stretch of tiny, weak swells and poor wind directions that just don’t line up for Hilton.

The water is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, sitting at 85°, but that’s the only thing that’s got any heat to it.

The swell energy is barely registering, with values sitting in the teeny digits – like 31 (weak) on the first Saturday morning, and it just gets smaller from there. The swell is a tiny 2 ft from the WNW, but it’s a short-period 6-second windswell, cross-on, and choppy. It’s a total mess. This pattern just repeats day after day. Sunday is the same story: 2 ft from the NW with a 6-second period, messy and weak. The combined energy never gets above 47 (weak), and most days it’s in the teens and twenties.

There’s a couple of mornings where the wind goes glassy, like Wednesday the 12th and Thursday the 13th, and again on Sunday the 23rd of August. But even then, the swell is non-existent – 1 ft or 0.7 ft and 2 ft. Glassy conditions are a tease when there’s no wave to surf. The best you could hope for is a knee-high dribble on the 23rd of August morning, with a 2 ft WNW swell and a 6-second period, combined energy at 26 (weak). But even then, the wind shifts onshore by the afternoon.

The end of the 16-day window on the 23rd of August morning is the only faint glimmer, with a 2 ft swell and glassy wind. But it’s still small, and the period is short. Honesty time, folks: there’s just no surf on offer. The break is a reef setup, but it’s inconsistent at the best of times, and this forecast is a dead run. It’s the kind of stretch where you’d be better off staying home.

Rusty.

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