Luz Surf Forecast and Surf Report

G’day, Rusty here, and I’ve gotta be straight with ya – the next 16 days at Luz are looking like a real quiet stretch for surf. There’s a lot of flat spells and tiny, weak waves, and not a single standout session that’d get me out of bed early. Let’s run through it.

The 16-day window starts with nothing decent on offer. The first few days are all about tiny 0.3ft swell from the SW with short periods around 13-14 seconds, but the wave energy is pitiful – we’re talking combined energy values of just 8 and 7 (weak). Friday the 21st it’s offshore with a moderate breeze, but that swell is so small it’s barely a ripple. Saturday the 22nd is similar, with a light offshore breeze but still 0.3ft. Sunday the 23rd sees a shift to onshore wind, and it’s still tiny. So there’s a gap of basically no surf worthy of a paddle from the start until Monday the 24th.

Then Monday the 24th brings a pulse of 6ft swell from the WSW, but it’s short period at 8 seconds and the combined energy climbs to 405 (moderate). The problem? The wind is cross-shore and the conditions are described as “poor” with a cross-chop. That’s messy, not clean. Tuesday the 25th morning is the closest we get to something – a 4ft swell from the west, period only 7 seconds, and glassy wind. The combined energy is 124 (moderate), and the water here is 68°, which is a bit colder than normal for this time of year (anomaly -3°). But mate, it’s only rated as “surfable waves but very ordinary conditions” – nothing to write home about.

After that, it drops off again. From Tuesday afternoon through to the end of the 16 days on September 5th, it’s mostly 0.3ft to 2ft swells, with combined energy almost always in the single digits (weak). There are a few mornings with offshore winds (like the 27th, 29th, 30th, 31st, and early September), but the swell is just too small to get excited over. The biggest energy spike after the 24th is a 2ft swell on the 27th morning (energy 30 – still weak), and even that’s with a short period of 6 seconds.

Honestly, there’s no true standout here. The best of a bad lot is Tuesday morning the 25th of August with that 4ft glassy session, but it’s still ordinary. For a point break like Luz, it’s inconsistent and rarely breaks with any decent size, so this blank run isn’t totally surprising. Keep an eye on the forecasts, but for now, I’d be taking the board for a wax and a coffee, not a paddle.

Rusty.

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