Seignosse - Les Bourdaines Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's have a look at what the next couple of weeks have in store for us around Seignosse - Les Bourdaines. It’s a bit of a mixed bag, but we’ll get through it.

Straight off the bat, the next few days are looking pretty flat and messy. There’s a real quiet spell here, with hardly any proper surf on the cards. The first real chance to even think about getting wet doesn’t come around until Tuesday the 4th of August, and even then, it’s a real small one.

So, for this Tuesday morning, the 4th of August, we’ve got a tiny 2ft swell rolling in from the west, and the wind is dead calm – glassy as anything. The combined swell energy is a weak 48, so it's not packing any punch, but for a quick splash on a longboard, it might be the only window for a little while. The water temp is about average for this time of year, so nothing to worry about on that front.

Things look a bit better towards Thursday the 6th of August. The morning shows a slight bump to 3ft from the northwest, and we get a lucky break with a light cross-offshore wind from the northeast. That’ll clean things up nicely. The wave energy climbs to a moderate 103, so there's a bit more life in the water. Still small, but the cleanest conditions we’ve seen in a while.

After that, it’s back to the doldrums. The wind stays poor – mostly onshore or cross-onshore – and the swell just doesn’t get its act together. There’s a long stretch of nothing recommended at all until we hit Wednesday the 12th of August. That morning shows a tiny 2ft groundswell from the west-northwest with a period of 9 seconds, but more importantly, it’s glassy again. A calm, clean morning, but the energy is still pretty weak at 93. The next day, Thursday the 13th of August, offers a repeat: another 2ft groundswell, another glassy start. It’s tiny, it’s clean, but it’s the best you’ll get.

The standout session, if you can call it that, looks like Monday the 17th of August. The swell jumps up to 5ft from the northwest, with a period of 9 seconds and a combined energy of 314 – the most push we see in the whole window. However, the wind is onshore from the west at 6 mph. For a beach/jetty set-up like this, that onshore wind is going to chop it up. While it's the biggest swell of the forecast, the quality is rated poor, making it more of a theory than a reality for a clean wave.

All in all, it's a pretty quiet outlook for Les Bourdaines. A few tiny, clean windows for the patient surfer on a foamie, but no real pumping swell to get excited about. Keep an eye on the charts, things can always change.

- Rusty

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