Jardim Atlantico Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let’s get into it.

We’re looking at a pretty quiet stretch here at Jardim Atlantico. For the next 16 days, there’s no real standout surf on offer. It’s one of those runs where you’ll be scratching for something half decent. The water temp is about average for this time of year, nothing unusual there.

We start off Monday the 10th with a tiny 2ft easterly swell, period only 7 seconds, weak energy (56). Winds are glassy in the morning though, so for a beginner, it’s at least clean. The afternoon goes cross-onshore and it gets ordinary.

Tuesday the 11th picks up a bit – swell reaches 3ft, still from the east, energy nudging into three digits (109), but the wind is cross-on from the southeast at 9 mph, making it choppy. Not great. By the afternoon, it’s 4ft but wind increases to 12 mph and the period drops to 6 seconds, messy.

Wednesday the 12th sees the biggest swell of the whole period at 5ft, energy up to 350 (strong moderate), but again it’s cross-on and choppy. That amount of swell with poor conditions isn’t worth the paddle for the average surfer. There’s a bit of a gap after this where nothing really works.

Thursday morning 13th has 4ft at 7 seconds but wind is cross and the set-up still looks poor. The next couple of days have occasional glassy mornings – Friday 14th and Saturday 15th both have 3ft with a glassy start and light winds, energy around 115, just surfable small waves. Nothing to get excited about.

After that, it’s a long run of cross-on or onshore winds and small, weak swell all the way until Tuesday morning the 25th, when the swell is only 2ft, 6 seconds, and glassy again. For a beginner looking for a tiny, clean wave, those glassy mornings are your only real window. But if you want proper surf, this region is flat and windy for the majority of the 16-day window. There’s nothing on offer that stands out beyond small, ordinary conditions.

A couple of the glassy mornings – like the 14th and 15th – are the best bets of the whole period, but it’s still tiny and weak. For anyone other than a total beginner or someone on a longboard, it’s a pretty quiet outlook.

Mornings on the 14th, 15th, and 18th give you 3ft to 3ft of glassy, clean conditions. That’s the pick of a very average bunch. No big swells, no long period groundswell to get the heart pumping. Just small, clean and flat for the most part.

Rusty.

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