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Lahinch Strand surf forecast from 28 Aug 2026:
- Most powerful swell: Thursday 3 Sep, 10AM (local time) - 8ft (2.4m), 8s period, WSW swell with 744 kJ wave energy.
Best Forecast Surf Conditions for Lahinch Strand this week:
The most powerful waves expected at Lahinch Strand in the next 16 days are 2.4m 8s and forecast to arrive on Thursday (Sep 03) at 10AM. Winds are predicted to be onshore at the time the swell arrives.
| Wave Type | Time (IST) & Date | Wave Height & Period |
|---|---|---|
| Next good surf (1 star+) | - | - |
| Best Surf | - | - |
| Most Powerful | 10AM (Thu 3rd Sep) | 8ft (2.4m) 8s |
Table - best surf conditions forecast for Lahinch Strand over the next 16 days.
The Lowdown
Alright, Rusty here. Let’s get stuck into the outlook for Lahinch Strand.
Honestly, the next couple of weeks are lookin’ bleak. The whole 16-day run is basically one long battle with poor conditions and barely a sniff of anything proper. The water’s a touch warmer than normal for this time of year at 63°, nothing wild. But that’s where the good news ends.
We kick off on Friday the 28th with absolute dross. A tiny 1ft to 2ft cross-on sea breeze slop. Not even worth getting the wetsuit damp. Saturday the 29th is even worse, a pathetic 0.7ft with very weak combined energy of just 4, though there’s a brief window of clean morning wind – but you’d be floating out there with nothing to ride.
Sunday morning the 30th sees a bit of life, a 4ft groundswell from the WSW with a moderate combined energy of 295. But it’s all cross-on and messy. This sets the tone for the whole run: the swell energy does build, hitting 482 on Monday the 31st with 5ft from the west, and 744 on Thursday the 3rd of September with 8ft. But every single day is either cross-on, onshore, or sloppy. The wind is just relentless from the west, southwest, or west-southwest, hammering that exposed point.
The only tiny glimmer in this whole grey picture is the morning of Saturday the 12th of September. We get offshore wind from the east-northeast, a light breeze, with a 1ft west-southwest groundswell. The combined energy is a weak 74, but the wind is clean. It’s surfable. But that’s a full two weeks away and it’s barely a ripple. Everything else is a write-off. There’s simply no standout session in this forecast.
I’ll be honest, if the swell gets up that high and the wind stays this bad, the setup here looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing. There’s just no clean, lined-up waves worth paddling for in that entire outlook.
Rusty.
Short Range ForecastLight rain (total 8mm), mostly falling on Sat night. Very mild (max 17°C on Fri morning, min 14°C on Sat morning). Winds increasing (calm on Fri night, fresh winds from the WNW by Sun night). | Days 4-6 Weather SummaryModerate rain (total 19mm), heaviest on Tue night. Very mild (max 17°C on Wed morning, min 14°C on Tue night). Mainly fresh winds. | ||||||||||||||||||||
Friday 28 | Saturday 29 | Sunday 30 | Monday 31 | Tuesday 1 | Wednesday 2 | Thursday 3 | |||||||||||||||
AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | AM | PM | Night | |
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Wave Height (m) Direction Period (s) | WNW 8 | W 7 | WNW 7 | W 7 | W 7 | WSW 9 | WSW 10 | WSW 9 | W 9 | W 10 | W 10 | W 8 | W 8 | W 8 | W 8 | WSW 7 | WSW 7 | WSW 8 | WSW 8 | W 8 | W 9 |
Wave Graph  | |||||||||||||||||||||
 kJ | 19 | 28 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 84 | 295 | 243 | 436 | 482 | 414 | 277 | 164 | 161 | 93 | 154 | 215 | 204 | 744 | 472 | 408 |
Wind (km/h) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Wind State on-shore cross-onshore cross-shore cross-offshore off-shore glassy | cross-on | cross-on | glassy | cross-off | cross-on | cross-on | cross-on | cross-on | cross | cross | cross-on | cross-on | cross-on | on | on | on | on | cross-on | on | on | on |
High Tide | 6:21PM4.39m | 6:45AM4.21m | 6:53PM4.47m | 7:16AM4.28m | 7:25PM4.46m | 7:49AM4.28m | 8:00PM4.36m | 8:24AM4.19m | 8:38PM4.18m | 9:03AM4.03m | 9:21PM3.92m | 9:49AM3.80m | 10:14PM3.62m | ||||||||
Low Tide | 12:08PM0.46m | 00:30AM0.13m | 12:39PM0.34m | 1:00AM0.05m | 1:10PM0.29m | 1:31AM0.07m | 1:43PM0.32m | 2:04AM0.19m | 2:19PM0.44m | 2:39AM0.40m | 2:58PM0.64m | 3:20AM0.70m | 3:45PM0.92m | ||||||||
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 | 6:39 | — | — | 6:41 | — | — | 6:43 | — | — | 6:43 | — | — | 6:46 | — | — | 6:48 | — | — | 6:48 | — | — |
 | — | 8:36 | — | — | 8:34 | — | — | 8:31 | — | — | 8:29 | — | — | 8:27 | — | — | 8:24 | — | — | 8:22 | — |
mm | — | — | 3 | 1 | — | 3 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 1 |
Temp °C | 17 | 17 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 16 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 19 | 18 | 17 |
Feels °C | 17 | 15 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 12 | 12 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 14 |
Swell 1 Height (m) Direction Period (s) | WNW 8 | — | W 3 | W 7 | W 7 | WSW 9 | WSW 10 | WSW 9 | — | — | — | — | WNW 8 | W 8 | W 8 | SW 16 | SW 16 | SW 15 | — | SW 15 | W 9 |
| kJ | 19 | — | 2 | 4 | 3 | 84 | 295 | 243 | — | — | — | — | 62 | 161 | 93 | 10 | 10 | 9 | — | 9 | 408 |
Swell 2 Height (m) Direction Period (s) | — | — | WNW 7 | — | SW 11 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | W 18 | W 16 | NW 10 | — | — | — | — | SW 15 |
| kJ | — | — | 9 | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | 5 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 9 |
Swell 3 Height (m) Direction Period (s) | — | — | — | — | W 10 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| kJ | — | — | — | — | 2 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Wind waves Height (m) Direction Period (s) | — | W 7 | — | — | — | SW 2 | — | — | W 9 | W 10 | W 10 | W 8 | W 8 | — | — | WSW 7 | WSW 7 | WSW 8 | WSW 8 | W 8 | — |
| kJ | — | 28 | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | 436 | 482 | 414 | 277 | 164 | — | — | 154 | 215 | 204 | 744 | 472 | — |
Nearest Offshore or Glassy | |||||||||||||||||||||
Distance (km) | 152 | 568 | 255 | 255 | 346 | 6 | 6 | 127 | 150 | 497 | 150 | 92 | 91 | 91 | 86 | 89 | 150 | 91 | 151 | 87 | 92 |
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