Hope Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I’m lookin’ at the next couple of weeks for Hope Beach.

To be straight with you, the first few days are a write-off. Friday afternoon the 14th is a total mess – 8ft of swell from the SSW, but it’s a 16-second period groundswell, which is nice and long, but that 22 mph cross-on wind is just thrashin’ it. The water’s a bit cooler than usual for this time of year, at 52°, and the combined energy is a massive 3166, but it’s ugly. Not worth paddlin’ out.

Now, Saturday the 15th is where it gets interesting. We wake up to 7ft of S swell, still a long 16-second period, but the wind is a clean offshore from the NNW at only 6 mph. That’s clean. The combined energy is still high at 2419, and it’s solidly in the intermediate-to-expert zone. The wave comment says excellent for experienced surfers, and I’m with that. The afternoon will drop a little to 6ft, but the wind goes light cross-on, so aim for the morning. This is the standout of the whole run. Hope Beach is inconsistent, so when it fires like this, you don’t sleep in.

Sunday the 16th still has some clean, smaller waves – 4ft in the morning with a light offshore, and that combined energy drops to 587. It’s surfable, but it’s a step down.

Then we hit a long dry spell. From Monday the 17th all the way through to Saturday the 22nd, the swell just dies. We’re talkin’ waves under 3ft, and the energy readings drop to 92 or 79. On the 22nd, a 25 mph cross-wind kicks up 8ft of short-period slop, but that’s a kite-surfing day, not a surfing day.

The next real hope is Sunday the 23rd. We get 4ft from the SSW with a 19-second period, but the wind is a fresh 19 mph cross-off, so it’s bumpy. The energy is back up to 1959, but it’s not clean.

But hold on – Monday the 24th is the other big one. The forecast is showin’ 10ft of S swell with a 16-second period, and a gentle offshore from the NNW at 9 mph. The combined energy is a massive 4799. That’s big, powerful, and clean. It’s for experienced surfers only, and with Hope Beach bein’ inconsistent and sometimes crowded, you’ll want to be there early. This is a real groundswell, so it’ll have long lulls between sets, but the waves that come through will be proper.

After that, it tails off again into the end of the month with tiny, weak swell and poor conditions. So, in short: Saturday morning the 15th is your best bet for a clean, solid session, and Monday the 24th is the big, powerful day for the brave.

Rusty.

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