Hitherhills Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let me level with you. Looking at this 16-day window for the region, it’s a tough stretch. The numbers are telling me the setup is just not cooperating. We’ve got a long, quiet run ahead with a whole lot of nothing worth jumping out of bed for, but there is one morning that looks like it’ll finally give us something to paddle for.

Right now, and for the bulk of this forecast, the story is the same: messy wind and weak swell. The first break that shows any pulse is Hitherhills, and it’s a real struggle. Most of the time the wind is cross or cross-onshore, often blowing fresh or strong, just tearing the surface up. The combined energy is mostly weak to moderate—values down in the 50s, 60s, and low 100s—and the swell periods are short, often 5 to 8 seconds. That’s just low-energy wind chop, not real groundswell. You’ll see a few blips of energy, like on the 14th of July with a combined energy of 143, but it’s still paired with a gentler cross-onshore wind and a short period, so it’s just lumpy and messy. Conditions stay poor right through that whole first week and into the second.

Water temperature here is around 69°, which is right on the money for this time of year, nothing unusual there.

Now, if you’re patient, there’s one true standout, and it’s on the morning of Saturday, 19th of July. That morning at Hitherhills, the wind goes completely glassy—dead calm, 0 mph. The swell pushes up to a clean 3 ft from the South, with a period of 8 seconds and a combined energy of 144—that’s moderate energy, so it’ll have a little push to it. Those conditions are going to make it look like a completely different break. The surface will be clean, glassy, and that South swell should wrap in fairly nicely. It’s a beginner-friendly break, so the 3 ft size is perfect, and with glassy conditions, it’s the best on offer by a long shot. The crowds can be *sometimes* an issue here, but on a Saturday morning after such a long flat spell, you might just have it to yourself for a while. Don’t sleep on it.

Before that, the only other sniff of something semi-rideable is on the morning of Friday, 18th of July. It’s glassy that morning too, with a 2 ft South swell, but the energy is weak (combined energy of 62) so it’ll be small and weak. Surfable, but ordinary.

After that Monday the 21st, it fades back into poor, choppy, onshore slop for the rest of the outlook. Nothing worth chasing.

So, to sum it up: there’s a very long, dry gap of nearly two weeks of poor surf. The only real highlight, and I mean the only one worth planning for, is that glassy, clean session at Hitherhills on the morning of Saturday, 19th July. Mark it down. The rest? Leave the board in the car.

- Rusty

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