Jacaraipe Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s size it up. Monday morning at Jacaraipe is the only real surf in this whole first stretch, and honestly, it’s pretty ordinary. We’ve got a small 3ft easterly swell rolling in with an 8-second period, and the water’s sitting at 74°, which is right on the money for this time of year. The wind is barely there, glassy off the ESE, so the surface is clean. It’s a sandbar, fairly consistent, but the energy is weak—only 117. It’s surfable, but you won’t be writing home about it. The morning is the call. The afternoon goes cross-shore and light, and it just falls apart.

From Monday afternoon right through the rest of the week and into the next, there’s a pretty solid gap with nothing worth paddling out for. We’re talking several days of poor conditions—cross-onshores, lumpy chop, and energy that’s either too weak or misdirected. There’s a bit more size around Thursday the 17th and Friday the 18th, with some long-period SSE groundswell pushing in—Friday morning shows 4ft at 12 seconds, and the combined energy jumps to 679, so there’s some real push behind it. But the wind is cross-onshore and it’s messy. Not worth the hassle.

Then we hit a dry spell of nothing. The 19th and 20th are blown out and onshore. The 21st is the first standout of the whole period. Monday the 21st morning—now we’re talking. Clean conditions with a cross-offshore NNE breeze, 6ft of east swell at 8 seconds, and the energy reading 431. That’s the pick of the bunch. It’s still a short-period swell, so it’ll be a bit lumpy and sectiony at a sandbar, but it’s clean, and for a beginner spot, that size is fine. The afternoon, though, gets fresh and cross-onshore from the NE at 30 km/h, so get it early.

After that, it’s another run of poor to marginal. The 22nd has a clean morning but the swell’s dropping. The 23rd and 24th are onshore and choppy, with the 26th seeing 6ft but fresh cross-onshore winds—too messy for a proper surf. The 27th morning has a cross-offshore and clean lines at 4ft, but the energy is weak and the period is short. Not much drive. The 29th is a marginal call—light cross-shore, some SSE energy but nothing special.

All in all, there’s really just one solid day worth circling: Monday the 21st morning. Everything else is a fight against the wind or a lack of push. A couple of other mornings, like the 27th and 29th, might have clean-ish surfaces, but the swell is small and inconsistent. For a sandbar, you want a bit more period to get proper shape. Keep expectations low, pick your window, and don’t force it.

Rusty.

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