Kahului Harbor Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what the next couple of weeks are serving up for Kahului Harbor. I gotta be straight with you – this stretch is a cruel one for us paddle surfers.

The story is mostly a frustrating one of persistent cross-onshore wind, mainly out of the ENE, just chewing up the surface. We’ve got swell on the cards, no doubt, but the quality is shot for the vast majority of the time. There’s a long, drawn-out run of poor to marginal conditions right through until late in the month. From now up until the morning of the 19th, it’s a real grind, with everything getting chopped up by that breeze. Even when the swell bumps up to around 5ft to 6ft in the second week, the cross-off wind just kills it.

For the keen-eyed, the energy does creep up. By the morning of the 15th, the combined swell energy is a moderate reading of 387, and it climbs to a moderate-to-strong 706 by the morning of Monday the 17th, with waves hitting 7ft. But that's all arriving with a 12 to 15 mph cross-onshore wind. That’s a nope from me for a surfboard; if you’ve got a kite, that Sunday the 16th or Monday the 17th might start looking interesting.

There’s a tiny glimmer of hope right at the very tail end. Check out the morning of the 21st. We’ve got a shift in the wind to a glassy NNE, light as a feather. The swell will be a clean 4ft with a 9-second period from the NE, the exact direction this place loves. The combined energy is a moderate 270. That looks like the one and only real chance for a smooth session. It’s still a week and a half away, so don’t hold your breath, but that morning is *easily* the best bet on the whole calendar.

So, for the short term, it's a write-off. Come back and check the forecast again closer to that 21st. The odds are against us, but that’s the call.

Rusty.

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