Kawana Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Let’s be straight up – this outlook for Kawana Beach is a tough one. There’s no real stand-out surf in the next two and a half weeks. The whole run is plagued by poor conditions, with only a few fleeting moments where you could maybe find a salvageable wave. The first real gap is right at the start; there’s nothing worth chasing until the morning of Wednesday, 2nd September.

Water temp is sitting at 68°, which is a bit colder than what you’d usually expect for this time of year.

For the first few days, from Sunday the 30th of August right through Tuesday the 1st of September, forget it. It’s all cross-onshore slop, choppy and messy with weak, short-period swell and poor surf quality. Not worth paddling out.

Then on Wednesday, 2nd September morning, we finally get a little window. The wind goes light and cross-offshore, giving clean conditions. The swell is tiny though – only 2 ft from the east at a 10-second period, and the combined energy is weak (64). It’s surfable but very ordinary. That same pattern repeats on Thursday and Friday mornings – clean but tiny waves (1 ft to 2 ft, weak energy). Each afternoon the wind picks up and chops it out.

Saturday the 5th of September has a slight bump in size, with swell reaching 4 ft from the north-northeast, but the period is a short 5 seconds and the wind is a fresh cross-shore, making it lumpy and poor. Not worth it.

The pattern of clean mornings with micro-swell continues through to Tuesday the 8th of September, but nothing gets above 2 ft and the energy is always low. It’s frustrating.

Around Wednesday the 9th of September, the swell tries to build, hitting 4 ft from the east-northeast with a 6-second period and moderate energy (161). But the wind is cross or cross-onshore, so it’s choppy again.

Thursday the 10th of September holds similar 4 ft swell, but the wind stays problematic – light cross-onshore in the morning, then a moderate southerly cross-onshore in the afternoon.

The best chance in the whole outlook comes on Friday, 11th of September afternoon. Swell jumps to 6 ft from the southeast, with a 6-second period and strong energy (324). That’s the biggest swell of the period. But the wind is onshore from the east-southeast at 12 mph, with a risk of thunderstorms, so the quality is still rated as poor. With that size and wind, Kawana Beach will be a messy, blown-out mess – probably more interesting for a kite surfer than a paddle surfer.

The rest of the run into mid-September fades back to small, weak, and onshore. Not much to get excited about.

Overall, if you’re desperate, the cleanest but smallest waves are on the mornings of the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 6th, and 8th of September. The only time the swell gets any grunt is on the 11th, but the wind ruins it. For the most part, Kawana Beach is a write-off for the next 16 days.

Rusty.

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