Hookipa Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's take a look at what's cookin' for the next couple of weeks.

Right off the bat, I gotta be straight with you – we're in for a long, flat, and pretty ugly stretch to start. The first solid window of decent surf doesn't show up until Monday the 17th, so we’ve got a full week of cross-shore junk to get through. The wind is coming from the east and east-northeast, and it’s just hammering the surface with chop. The swell is hanging around 4.9 ft but with a period of only 8 seconds, so it’s all weak, short-period windswill. The combined energy is moderate but messy, hitting between 200 and 400 (moderate wave energy). Honestly, for the next seven days, the conditions are so poor that even the bigger days around 6.6 ft to 8.2 ft towards the end of the week into the 15th and 16th are just gonna be a roiled-up mess with cross-onshore wind. Not worth paddling out.

But then, Monday the 17th, things take a turn at our featured spot, Hookipa. On the Monday morning, we get a lovely glassy morning with zero wind. The swell drops a touch to 6.6 ft, coming from the NE with a period of 10 seconds. The combined energy is a solid 801 (moderate wave energy), so there’s decent power behind it. It’s a reef break, so that long-period groundswell (10 seconds is decent) will hold up nicely. The optimum swell direction is NNE, and this NE swell is a great match. The rating is 4/5, it’s fairly consistent, and while the crowds can be present sometimes, a clean, glassy Hookipa on a Monday morning? That’s the standout of the whole run. The water temp is about average for this time of year.

After that morning, it starts getting a little bumpy again through the afternoon with light cross-shore wind, but nothing like the junk we saw before. The rest of the second week looks pretty weak again, with small swell dropping to 2.3 ft to 4.6 ft and the wind swinging back onshore. It’s a short-lived window, but that Monday morning glass-off is the one to chase.

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