Kirra Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here. Look, I’ve got to be straight with you – this 16-day window for Kirra is a bit of a tough one. The forecast is showing a whole lot of “poor surf conditions” across the board, and there’s not a single standout session that gets the blood pumping. We’ve got a real dry spell on the cards, with no real quality surf to recommend until the very end of the period, and even then it’s a long shot.

Right now, from Monday 24 August through to about the end of the first week, we’re in a flat spell. The swell is small, almost always under 3 ft, and the energy is weak. The best we see is a tiny 3 ft on Monday 24 August from the ENE, but with a light cross-shore wind and a combined energy of only 187 (moderate energy), it’s just not doing anything for Kirra. The water temp is sitting around 69°F, which is about normal for this time of year.

The pattern doesn’t shift much through the week. Tuesday 25 August brings a bit more swell but the wind is onshore, and the surf is poor. The Thursday morning of 27 August has a clean offshore wind from the S at 12 mph, with a 2 ft E swell, but with only 97 combined energy (weak), it’s not enough to bother with. The Friday morning of 28 August goes glassy with a 3 ft S swell, but again, the energy is moderate (228) and the period is just 8 seconds – it’s barely a bump.

The real kicker is that even when we get a bit of size, like the Sunday afternoon of 30 August with a 5 ft SSE swell and a combined energy of 438 (strong wave energy), the forecast still calls it poor surf conditions. The wind is cross-off, clean enough, but the swell direction is off and the quality just isn’t there for Kirra. This is a point break that really needs a clean SE groundswell to work, and we’re not getting that.

The gap stretches on. The first week of September is more of the same: small, messy, and inconsistent. The best chance of anything might be the Sunday morning of 6 September, with a 3 ft SSE swell, a 10-second period, and light cross-off winds. Combined energy is 245 (moderate), but it’s still a far cry from what this wave is capable of. The last few days of the forecast, around 7–8 September, are back to tiny, choppy, and onshore.

So, what’s the call? There’s nothing to get excited about. If you’re a beginner, the swell is small enough to be safe, but the quality is so poor it’s not worth the paddle. For the experts, there’s nothing to sink your teeth into. The setup is so weak and wind-affected that it might look more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing on some of those cross-on days. This is a blank run, and for Kirra, that’s not unusual – it can be a finicky wave that needs the right conditions. Keep an eye on the charts, because it tends not to stay poor for long.

Rusty.

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