Hilton Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Ah, mate. Look, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. The next sixteen days are looking pretty bleak for a proper surf. We’ve got a long stretch of tiny, weak, and mostly messy conditions on the cards. The swell window is just about shut, and the energy we’re seeing is pretty feeble. It’s one of those periods where you’re better off checking the sandbars, or maybe just giving the board a good wax and waiting it out. The water temp is sitting at 85°, which is about 3° warmer than usual for this time of year, so it’ll feel like a warm bath out there, but the waves just won’t cooperate.

The first real window of opportunity, and I use that term loosely, looks like it might open up on the morning of Wednesday the 12th. There’s a tiny 1ft swell rolling in from the WNW, but the period is a short 7 seconds, so it won’t have much push. The saving grace is a light cross-offshore breeze keeping things clean. It’s not much, but it might be the most surfable the place gets for a while. The energy is weak, coming in at just 19, so you’ll be doing a lot of bobbing for a few crumbly shoulders.

The standouts, if you can call them that, are the mornings of Monday the 10th and Tuesday the 11th of August. The swell is still tiny at 2ft, but it’s glassy. Absolutely no wind. That’s about as good as it gets for the conditions. The wave energy is still weak, around 22-24, but those early sessions will be the cleanest you’ll find. You’ll be surfing by yourself, that’s for sure, but the lack of crowds is a plus when the surf is this small.

After that, we slip back into a couple of days of onshore junk and bumpy conditions. There’s a slight bump in size on the 14th, maybe 3ft, but the wind is all over it, making it a messy, choppy mess. Not worth the effort.

The second week is much the same story. Small, weak, and disjointed. The mornings offer the best chance for a clean-ish surface, but the swell remains anemic and the period stays short. There’s a slight dip in the energy levels toward the 20th, with the swell dropping to 1ft and the period dropping to a poor 5 seconds. That’s about as dead as it gets.

So here’s the deal. If you’re desperate for a paddle, the glassy mornings on the 10th and 11th are your best bet. They won't be epic, but they'll be clean. Everything else is a write-off. The conditions are just too small and too messy to get excited about. This is a waiting game, mate. The ocean will wake up eventually, but it’s not going to be this week.

Rusty.

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