La Izquierda Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, this is Rusty, and I’m looking at what’s on the menu for the next couple of weeks around La Izquierda.

Honestly, it’s a pretty quiet stretch to start. We’re looking at a few days of barely-there waves and mostly flat conditions. The first real hope pops up on Wednesday the 2nd of September. Wednesday morning starts off with some tiny 4.3ft swell out of the NE, but the magic is that wind – we’ve got glass right out of the SE. That’s a nice, clean look, even if the swell’s small and weak. The real highlight is Wednesday afternoon: the wind goes totally calm, the water goes glassy, and the swell bumps up a tick with moderate energy (205). It’s going to be clean as a whistle, but the 4ft swell from the NE is a bit on the small side and the period is short (8 seconds), so it won’t have much punch. Definitely the best session of the whole outlook, though.

After that Wednesday, we slide into a real flat spell. For days on end – from Thursday the 3rd right through to Monday the 7th – it’s mostly ankle-biters under 1.6ft and no real energy. The water temp is sitting at about 76.5°F on Tuesday, which is a touch warmer than usual for this time of year.

There’s a flicker of life on Monday the 7th afternoon. The swell drops in from the NW with a longer 13-second period and moderate energy (186), but it’s still only 2ft. The wind stays light and cross-off from the SE. It’s rideable but nothing to get excited about. This same kind of ordinary, clean but weak pattern carries on for the rest of the first week and into the second week.

From the 10th onwards, we’re scraping the bottom of the barrel. Swell heights mostly hover around 1ft to 1.6ft, the wind is often glassy or light, but there’s just not enough ocean moving to matter. There’s a period around the 13th and 14th where the wind shifts onshore but the swell doesn’t even crack 3ft. It’s not worth the paddle.

To be straight with you – there’s no standout session here that would make me race to the water. If you had to choose, make it Wednesday the 2nd of September in the afternoon, but don’t expect barrels. It’s just the cleanest day on offer. The rest of the 16-day window is a long, flat gap with very few windows of even knee-high surf. The longer period swell on the 7th and 16th might suggest some shape, but the size just isn’t there to do anything with it, especially at a reef like La Izquierda that really needs some push.

Stay patient, stay tuned.

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