Les Conches Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let me be straight with you—over the next 16 days, Les Conches is going to be a tough one. There’s not much worth paddling out for, and the few moments that look okay are just barely surfable. We’ve got a lot of onshore and cross-onshore wind messing things up, and the swell is small and weak most of the time. If you’re thinking of a session, you’ll have to pick your window carefully.

The water temperature is sitting around 70°F, which is about normal for this time of year, nothing wild there.

Wednesday the 2nd and Thursday the 3rd are a write-off—small, messy, poor surf. Friday the 4th morning chops the wind to glassy (2 ft, W swell), but it’s still tiny and weak with only 34 (weak energy) in the water. Not worth suiting up for.

Saturday the 5th morning is where we get a little flicker of hope. The swell picks up just a bit to 2 ft from the west, with a clean cross-offshore NE breeze, and the combined energy bumps up to 110 (moderate). It’s surfable, but very ordinary. The afternoon goes sour again with more cross-on wind and a long period 13-second groundswell that will tend to close out on this beach break.

Sunday the 6th morning is clean with an easterly cross-off, but the swell drops back to 2 ft and only 57 (weak energy). Not enough to do much with.

Monday the 7th and Tuesday the 8th: the swell height climbs a little (3 ft–3 ft) but it’s blown out or onshore. By Tuesday afternoon, the period drops short to 9 seconds and the energy climbs to 293 (moderate), but with onshore W wind at 16 mph, it’s junk.

The rest of the first week and into the second week is more of the same—cross-on winds, lumpy, choppy, small swell. Most days you’re looking at 2 ft–3 ft and scores that don’t excite.

Now, here’s the one real standout: Sunday the 13th morning. This is the best on offer. We’ve got 5 ft swell from the west, period 13 seconds (groundswell), and the combined energy is a massive 1072 (strong). That’s proper for experienced surfers—over 5 ft, it’s too big for beginners. The wind is almost glassy out of the east, cross-off, giving clean conditions. For a beach break, that long period means it might be a little straight, but with good bank and that light wind, it’ll have shape. This is your session if you’ve got the skill.

The days after that drop off again, small or windy. Some onshore swell on Tuesday the 15th hits 3 ft and 15-second period but with onshore wind—looks more interesting for kite surfing than paddle surfing that day.

All in all, there’s a long dry gap with no recommendations from Wednesday the 2nd right through to Saturday the 5th morning, then again from Saturday afternoon almost all the way until that Sunday the 13th morning. That’s over a week of pretty poor conditions. For a spot that’s fairly consistent, it’s a rough run, but it tends not to stay this grim forever—forecasts can change.

Keep an eye on that Sunday morning, September 13th. That’s the one.

- Rusty

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