Lincoln City Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here. Let's talk about what's coming down the pipe at Lincoln City. This is a beach and reef set-up, and it's exposed to the west, so it needs the right angle.

Alright, let's be straight with you. The next few days are looking pretty average. We've got some swell, but the wind's not playing ball, so it's mostly going to be a choppy mess. There's not a single standout session in the first week that I'd get excited about. The water temp right now is sitting at 54°, which is a whole 4° colder than usual for this time of year. You're gonna want a thick wetsuit, it's genuinely much colder than normal.

Thursday morning the 2nd sees a small, long-period groundswell from the southwest at about 2ft, but it's got a cross-onshore wind ruining the surface. That combined wave energy is weak at 294. Don't get your hopes up. Friday the 3rd and Saturday the 4th are all short-period, messy windswell with more cross-onshore winds, keeping the quality poor. The energy is moderate, hitting 376 on Saturday morning, but that doesn't matter when the wind's trashing it.

Sunday the 5th actually brings a bit more size, with the swell picking up to 6ft from the northwest, but the period is only 7 seconds and the wind is howling cross-shore at 16 mph in the afternoon. The energy climbs to 619, but that's just messy, powerful chop. It's not worth paddling out for.

Monday the 6th has a solid 6ft swell from the northwest with a period of 11 seconds, giving it a combined energy of 826—moderate to strong energy. But again, it's all cross-onshore wind. It's a frustrating pattern.

We get a little window around Tuesday the 7th morning with a tiny 2ft south-west groundswell and lighter cross-onshore winds. It's still not clean, but it's a break from the constant chop. The energy is moderate at 446. It's a marginal call.

The pattern continues through the rest of the first week into the second. You'll see small bumps of swell, but the wind almost always has that cross or cross-onshore component. There are a few marginal mornings, like Wednesday the 8th morning with a 2ft SW groundswell and a cross-shore breeze that might offer a semi-clean window (energy 618), and again on Thursday the 15th and Friday the 16th with some longer-period WNW swell showing a bit more energy (in the 600-700 range), but the cross-shore wind keeps it from being good.

Looking way ahead to Friday the 17th, we finally see some potential. The swell builds to 5-5ft from the west-northwest with a period of 10-11 seconds. The energy jumps up to 903-923, which is strong. The catch? Still a cross-shore wind for the afternoon. But it's one to watch as it gets closer; those long-range forecasts can change.

Overall, this is a long dry spell for Lincoln City. Nothing here is screaming "go now." The wind just won't cooperate to let the decent pulses of swell clean up. Usually, things don't stay this poor for this long, so keep an eye on the charts, but for now, you're not missing much.

Rusty.

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