Belle Ile - Les Donnants Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, let's get stuck into it.

Aye, it's Rusty here. Lookin' at the next couple of weeks, and honestly, for Belle Ile - Les Donnants, it's a right struggle. There's a long stretch ahead where you'll be lucky to even get a surfable wave. The first real glimmer of anything worth paddling out for doesn't show up until Saturday the 22nd, and even that's ordinary. There’s a solid gap of nothing from the get-go. We’ve got a massive chunk of the 16 day window that's not even worth considering.

The water here is about 68°F, which is bang on average for the time of year at Les Donnants, so nothin' special there.

The first chance of a wave is on the Saturday morning the 22nd. We've got a clean little 3ft swell from the WNW with a period of 8 seconds, and the wind is a light cross-offshore from the NNE at only 6 mph. That’s about as clean as it gets for this spot in this forecast. The combined energy is only weak though (140), so it's not gonna have much punch. It’s surfable but very ordinary, so temper your expectations.

Then Sunday morning the 23rd offers a similar vibe: 2ft from the WNW, period of 7 seconds, and again that light 6 mph cross-offshore from the NNE. It's clean, but the combined energy is a pathetic 64. Tiny, weak, and barely worth peeling out of bed for.

After that, things just drop off a cliff energy-wise for the rest of the first week and into the second. We're talking 1.0ft and 0.7ft for days on end through Monday and Tuesday. It’s a write-off.

The end of the window gets a bit spicy, but all for the wrong reasons. Around Thursday the 27th and Friday the 28th of August, the swell pumps up, but it’s accompanied by brutal onshore winds. On Thursday morning you’ve got a 7ft swell from the W (9 seconds) with 28 mph cross-onshore winds from the SW. That's strong, messy, and blown-out. Combined energy hits 732, so there's power, but it's pure chaos. By Friday morning the 28th, the swell hits 10ft from the SW with 16 mph onshore winds. Even though the wind has eased a fraction, the combination of 10ft dumping onshore slop is only for the experts, and it's still ugly. The combined energy is a massive 1004, a heavy mess.

Overall, there's no standout session here. The only half-decent window is Saturday morning the 22nd and Sunday morning the 23rd, but it's tiny. If you're a kitesurfer, that Thursday and Friday with the strong wind and 7 to 10ft of messy swell might look interesting, but for a paddle surfer, it's ugly.

Big-hearted, but there's nothin' here to get excited about. Keep an eye on it, things can change, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Rusty.

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