Inside Reef (Hikkaduwa) Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's have a look at what's cookin'. We only got one spot in the book, Inside Reef at Hikkaduwa, and I gotta be honest with ya, the next 16 days are a bit of a grim story. The wind is just blowing from the wrong direction – West and West-Southwest – and it's gonna mess up what could be some decent swell.

Starting Saturday, July 18th, it's a no-go. We got a small 3ft swell from the SSW, but it's getting hammered by a 15 mph cross-on wind, making it choppy and poor.

It keeps on like that for days. On Monday, July 20th, the swell picks up to about 4ft from the south, with a really long period of 18 seconds – that's a powerful groundswell. The wave energy is strong (1546), but the wind is still on it, so it's just going to be a blown-out mess.

Tuesday the 21st shows a little glimmer, with a lighter 9 mph breeze in the morning, but it's still a cross-on wind, so the surf stays fairly choppy. Swell holds around 5ft from the south, but the conditions aren't clean.

From then on, it's the same story. Onshore winds, thunderstorms likely, and the swell just keeps coming but getting wrecked. The energy gets huge on Thursday, July 30th, hitting 2822 in the afternoon with a 6ft swell from the SSW. That's a lot of power, but with a 12 mph cross-on wind, it's just going to be big and ugly. By Friday the 31st, the swell is over 7ft – that's expert territory – but again, the wind will ruin it.

Honestly, there's not a single window in this whole 16-day stretch where it all comes together for a clean session. The wind is just too persistent from the wrong angle for this reef break that wants that ENE offshore breeze. The water temp is probably about normal for the time of year.

Bottom line: leave the board in the car. With all this swell and onshore wind, this looks way more like a setup for kite-surfing than for a proper paddle out.

Rusty.

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