Les Roquilles Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, Rusty here. Let’s be straight with you: this stretch doesn’t look good for a proper surf. There’s surfable swell in the mix, but the quality is never really there, so keep your expectations in check.

We start off on Friday morning the 31st of July at Les Roquilles, and right away it’s a frustrating picture. The sea is chucking around a tiny 1 ft swell from the SSW, with a short period of just 4 seconds – that’s almost no push behind it. The wave energy is weak at (6). On the bright side, there’s a light NE cross-off breeze keeping the surface clean, and the water is sitting at 76°, which feels much warmer than normal for this time of year. That is the only positive, because the riding itself is going to be flat and gutless. This spot is rated for beginners, but with these tiny conditions, even a soft top would struggle.

Unfortunately, this pattern just doesn’t let up. Through Saturday and Sunday, and into the first week of August, we keep seeing the same story: swell heights teetering between 0.7 ft and 1 ft, almost always short period, and energy staying below (5) most of the time. The mornings do see some clean conditions with light offshore breezes from the NNW then NNE, but the surf is too small to call it a session. The afternoons get messy with cross-shore or cross-onshore winds and chop, so not worth paddling out.

The most notable swell arrives on Thursday morning the 6th of August, when we get a pulse of 3 ft from the W, with a 4-second period and combined wave energy finally climbing to (23). It’s a cross-shore WNW breeze, so it’s a little messy but not totally blown out. That’s about as good as this whole run gets. We see similar small pulses on Saturday the 8th (2 ft, WNW, energy up to 49 in the morning), and again on Sunday the 9th with a glassy afternoon that cleans things up nicely. Still, for an experienced surfer, these are tiny fun-size waves, not a proper session.

There’s another small bump on Monday the 10th of August with 2 ft from the W, NNE offshore breeze in the morning – very clean – but still only waist-high at best, with energy at (25). After that, it fades back to the standard weak ankle-biters through the middle of August until the 15th. That Saturday sees a fresh 19 mph WNW wind come up, lumping up the surface with cross-shore chop, and swell is back to 1.0-1 ft, so you can pretty much write it off.

To be honest, the whole 16-day outlook here is a flat run. Even the bigger pulses are too small to ride properly, and the wind is rarely cooperating for long. If you are a beginner, the mornings around Thursday the 6th to Monday the 10th are the cleanest windows, but you won’t be getting a proper wave under you. Beyond that, you are looking at wind swell noise.

Keep a loose arm, mate – the forecast might shift, but right now, my advice is to save the wax.

Rusty

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