Little Rincon Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright folks, Rusty here, and I’m looking straight at Little Rincon for the next couple weeks. And man, I’ve got to level with you – it’s pretty bleak. The whole 16-day run is one long quiet stretch. Not one true standout.

We start off on Sunday the 16th morning with a tiny 2ft swell from the SSW, period at 16 seconds – that's long period groundswell – but it’s coming straight onshore with a 6 mph wind from the SW. The water is sitting at a very unusual 70°, over 6° warmer than average for this time of year. That’s a real oddball. But the surf? Poor. Energy is weak, and the morning is washed out. That pattern just keeps rolling.

Monday the 17th, Tuesday the 18th, Wednesday the 19th – all showing 2ft to 2ft onshore slop, same onshore wind from SW or WSW, light breezes between 6 and 9 mph. The swell period sticks around 14 to 16 seconds – long period for such small waves, so you get these drawn-out, weak lines that just close out. Energy stays low to barely moderate. Flat.

Thursday the 20th drops even smaller to around 1ft, energy down almost nothing. By Friday the 21st, it’s a puny 1ft with a 13-second period – basically flat with little wind bumps. The whole first week is a broken record: poor surf, onshore winds, tiny swell.

The second week doesn’t shape up. Saturday the 22nd sees a brief pulse of 2ft from the west with a much shorter 9-second period – that’s windswell – but still onshore. Sunday the 23rd back to 1ft, period jumps to 18 seconds, energy still weak. That long groundswell is wasted. By Thursday the 27th, we finally see a bump: 4ft from the WNW early morning, but with a tiny 6-second period – just wind chop. Energy climbs some, but the wave comment still says poor. Onshore wind from the WSW at 9 mph. Fat and bumpy.

Even down to Saturday the 29th and Sunday the 30th, swell sits at 2ft, period 15 to 16 seconds, energy edging higher – but it’s light cross-on or onshore, and the reef is not making anything of it. No clean waves. Ends the same way on Monday the 31st: 1ft, onshore, poor.

Little Rincon is an advanced reef that needs a clean WNW swell with offshore ENE wind and proper groundswell. We’re not getting that at all. Not a single day with offshore wind, and the tiny SSW and SW swells are just closeouts. For advanced surfers? Nothing. For beginners? Nothing rideable. Even the kite crowd would be waiting for more wind.

Sometimes you just get a dead run. The ocean does that. Keep watching the charts, but for now? Leave the boards in the rack.

Rusty.

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