Laguna Beach Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Yeah, look, I’m not gonna sugarcoat it. The next couple of weeks are looking pretty flat and frustrating for Laguna Beach. We’ve got a solid run of days where the surf is just too small and the conditions aren’t doing us any favors. It’s one of those periods where you’re better off checking the cams, waxing a fish, or just going for a paddle.

The water’s sitting at 74°F which is about 7°F warmer than normal for this time of year – that’s a big deal, water’s feeling like a bath out there. You won’t need a wetsuit, that’s for sure.

We kick off the window with Sunday morning, and honestly, it’s a no-go. There’s a tiny 3ft SSW swell coming in at 15 seconds, but the energy is weak at 260 and the light westerly wind is just messing with the surface. It’s poor. The afternoon is barely any better, with the wind going cross-on and the energy only nudging up to 327. It’s marginal at best.

Monday and Tuesday are more of the same – small, short-period swell, nothing over 2ft, and the energy is stuck in the low to mid-200s. The wind is light, but it’s onshore or cross-on, so you’re just getting ripples instead of clean lines. It’s a flat spell, plain and simple.

We finally see a tiny pulse of energy building from Thursday the 14th into the weekend. The swell is still small, around 3ft to 3ft, but the period stays around 16 seconds and the energy climbs into the 400s and 500s. That’s something, but the wind is still on it, mostly light westerlies. It’s still not worth getting excited about. The surf is just poor, with a few “marginal” tags thrown in for tide issues.

The following week, from the 17th onward, it’s a continuation of the same story. The swell drops back down, the period is all over the place, and the energy is weak. There’s a brief spike in the period to 21 seconds on the 22nd, but the swell is only 1ft, so that long-period groundswell is just going to be lines of foam bumping through the kelp. It’s frustrating.

Honestly, for the entire 16-day outlook, there isn’t a single standout day. The best you can hope for is a knee-high crumble with clean conditions, and even that seems like a stretch. The energy readings are all in the low hundreds to mid-hundreds, which is weak, and the consistent theme is “poor surf conditions.” It’s a prolonged flat spell, and it might be time to take up golf for a couple of weeks.

The reef is just not going to offer anything rideable. If the wind kicks up and the swell stays this small, it’s not even a good kite day. Just a quiet, calm ocean.

Let’s hope the forecasts change, because this is a tough run.

Rusty.

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