Inchydoney Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you: the next sixteen days are looking pretty bleak for decent waves around Inchydoney. There’s no real swell on the cards, and the few pulses that do show up are small, short-period, and mostly messy. If you’ve got a paddleboard and don’t mind flat spells, you’ll be fine, but if you’re chasing a proper surf, you might want to find something else to do for a while.

We start off this Saturday, the 1st, with basically nothing—ankle-biters at about 1ft from the WSW, and the wind is all over the shop. Morning’s light cross, afternoon’s a choppy cross-on. The water’s running at about 66°, which is 4° warmer than usual for this time of year—that’s a notable jump, so the wetsuit can be a bit thinner.

Sunday the 2nd is much the same, tiny 1ft to 2ft, but at least the morning has that cross-off breeze that cleans things up. Still, there’s no energy behind it. Monday the 3rd and Tuesday the 4th stay in the ankle-to-knee range, with a bit of onshore chop and not much hope. The combined energy is weak—only around 100 to 120—so you can feel the lack of push.

By Wednesday the 5th, we get a tiny bump to about 4ft from the SSW, with a clean-ish morning under a light cross-off. That’s about as good as it gets, and honestly, it’s barely rideable. The period is only 7 seconds, so it’s going to be soft and lumpy. One for the desperate.

Then it just fades. Thursday the 6th drops back to under 1ft, and Friday the 7th through to the weekend sees nothing over 1ft. The glassy mornings on the 7th and 8th are pretty, but with no swell, it’s just flat. The energy readings are down in the 20s and 30s, which is basically nothing.

The second week doesn’t offer any hope. From Monday the 10th through to Sunday the 16th, we’re stuck with ankle-snatchers—0.5ft to 3ft at best, and mostly short-period junk. There are a few clean windows on the 10th and 15th mornings, but the swell just isn’t there to make any of it count. The 14th also brings a strong westerly breeze, around 25 mph, which will just chop up whatever tiny ripple is left.

So, bottom line: there are no good surf options in this whole 16-day window. Inchydoney is a sheltered river mouth that needs a decent SW groundswell to work, and we’re not getting one. It’s a blank run, plain and simple. But don’t lose hope—forecasts can shift, and this stretch of coast tends to find a pulse again before too long. Keep an eye on the charts, and I’ll see you when the ocean wakes up.

Rusty.

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