Los Enanos Surf Forecast and Surf Report

Alright, grab your board and let’s have a look at what’s ahead for Los Enanos. To be straight with you, this outlook is a tough one. We’ve got a solid two-week stretch here with some waves, but the conditions are going to fight you the whole way. The swell is coming from the north-northeast, which is completely wrong for this spot. It’s exposed to the northwest, so everything is going to be messy, chopped up, and basically, no good for a proper paddle session.

We start off with a bit of a gap. The first real opportunity, if you can call it that, is on Tuesday the 11th. The swell is small, around 4ft, but the period is a weak 6 seconds and it’s coming straight from the NNE, which is all wrong for Los Enanos. Add a 12 mph onshore breeze to that and you’ve got poor, junky surf. The energy is weak, with a combined swell energy of around 145, and it’s just not worth getting wet for. The water temperature is 74.8°, which is a touch warmer than normal for this time of year, but that’s about the only positive thing I can say.

The pattern doesn’t change much as we head through the middle of the week. Wednesday the 12th is more of the same: 4ft of short-period junk from the NNE, onshore wind, and a score that tells me you’re better off doing something else. Thursday the 13th sees the swell nudge up a bit to 4-5ft, and the energy ticks up to the 219-226 range, but it’s still a messy, onshore wind swell.

Friday the 14th offers the biggest surf of this first stretch, with the swell reaching 6ft, and the combination energy climbing to a moderate 368-387. But don’t get excited. The period is still only 7 seconds, it’s from the wrong direction, and that persistent NNE wind is going to have it blown out and lumpy. It’s not going to be pretty.

The weekend follows a similar theme. Saturday the 15th has a bit more size, up to 6ft in the morning, but it’s still all over the place with onshore winds. By Sunday the 16th, it starts to ease back down to around 4-5ft. There’s a slight let-up in the wind to 9 mph on Sunday morning, but the swell direction is still the problem.

As we head into the new week, we get a change in the wind, but it’s not for the better. From Monday the 18th onwards, the wind swings around to the north, but it becomes a cross-onshore breeze, which is going to make an already poor situation even choppier. The surf shrinks back down to around 4ft, with the period picking up slightly to 8-9 seconds. The energy edges up into the 222-320 range, but it’s all for nothing with that cross-onshore wind.

This stretch of poor conditions looks like it’s going to last through the end of the week, right up until Saturday the 22nd. We see the swell hanging in around 4-5ft, with a combination energy in the low to mid-200s, but it’s all messy.

The final few days of the window, from Sunday the 23rd through Wednesday the 26th, see things fade out. The swell drops back to around 3ft, the period shortens back down to 6 seconds, and the energy weakens significantly. By the 24th, we’re looking at combined energy in the low 100s, which is about as weak as it gets.

If you're a kite surfer, this might have some appeal with the onshore winds and some sizeable, messy waves. But for anyone looking to paddle out and get a decent wave, there is absolutely nothing here that stands out. This is a blank run, plain and simple. It happens sometimes. The forecast can change, but as it stands, I wouldn't bother waxing up. It's a tough call, but sometimes the ocean just says no.

Stay patient.

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